A race that really matters
After all the ballyhoo and hype of the Olympics comes the only race of any real significance this year: it’s time for Americans to choose the next guy they want to entrust with the launch codes. Without claiming any expertise in the field of US politics, it seems like a no-brainer.
From today’s Independent:
Maybe it wasn’t quite his greatest speech ever. Barack Obama has long since set the bar so high that even he on occasion falls short of the summit. Convention acceptance speeches moreover - even one in a football stadium with a firework show to rival the Beijing Olympics - rarely linger in the memory, such is the gathering flood of the political season. But on Thursday evening, the candidate did what every Democrat craved. He set out what he planned to do, laid into John McCain, and looked like a President.
Read the entire article here.
More good sense about Obama’s credentials.
In the name of everything holy, let’s hope he still looks like a president in January.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:53 am
If you are sucked in by this media created fraud then you are just completely nuts.
At least McCain served his country, suffered for his country and does not go round like someone with a carrot up his a&$$
This guy has done nothing all his life yet affects the great man, messiah look. What a joke.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:19 am
MW, I can only assume you’re having a bad day.
An imperfect system it may be, but the people of America have a choice. If Obama does have a carrot up his ass, that alone is qualification enough to vote for him ahead of McCain.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:07 am
At least McCain is not a phoney. Obama is. I’ve never heard him give a straight answer.
McCain fought and sacrificed for his country. He adopted a Bangladeshi orphan. He seems like a genuine natural human being. Obama obviously is not.
August 31st, 2008 at 9:45 am
Well, one of us is going to be disappointed. I’d have thought Obama would be far better for Sino-US relations.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:58 am
Democrats actually are not necessarily any better than Republicans. It was Nixon who improved relations with China, not Johnson or Kennedy. Kissinger is a ‘friend’ of China. George H Bush has always been positive towards the PRC, he was afterall the first US ambassador (in an unofficial capacit-diplomatic relations were not formally established until 1978) to the PRC- his son, aside from some cheap rhetoric, is by and large OK. During the Tibet troubles, his response was rather muted. I suppose its subjective - I find McCain more likeable than Obama, vastly preferred Dubya over Kerry, his Dad over Dukakis and admire Nixon greatly but despise the Kennedy’s. Don’t know why. Just my gut feeling.
All that save Darfur crowd, save Tibet crowd are more likely to be Democrats. Obamas attitude towards China with respect to these issues has not been friendly at all.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
“All that save Darfur crowd, save Tibet crowd are more likely to be Democrats.”
Tibet’s beyond saving, but I think we should all be able to get together on Darfur - it’s definitely not part of China (yet).
September 1st, 2008 at 5:14 am
Sorry, Tibet has already been saved. It was peacefully liberated by the PLA and reunited with the motherland. And yes, the liberation was peaceful.
September 1st, 2008 at 6:17 am
MW - you’re an intelligent guy, so I can only put that response down to blind loyalty or satire.
Time for me to go and liberate my students from their new semester doldrums.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Have changed my mind. I’m definitely for an Obama win now. McCain selecting that airhead Palin made me lose all respect for him.
And I detest Palin’s antics and her smear campaign against Obama - especially in times like these. And I detest people who try to insinuate themselves into a position that they know full well they are utterly unqualified for - which is exactly the type of person Palin is.
And someone has described her ambition as ‘creepy.’ She likes George H Bush the best out of all VPs because he went on to become the president? And what was that comment about Biden’s wife ‘her reward is in heaven now?’ - what did she mean by that?
If McCain gets elected because of this women we will really understand how shallow the American people are.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Welcome to the club, MW. It’s a pity we can’t vote!