Through out the presidential debates I don't believe there has been exactly a clear winner. They have both made good comments that probably make it hard for someone undecided to pick who they would like to vote for. However after the third debate and putting all their information together I believe that there was a clear winner. Of course I tend to already have a favorite to begin with being a DEMOCRAT in the heart. I might not see some of the good things about McCain.
I think after the debates all together that McCain has made statements that contradict each other. And also has decided to sugar coat a lot of things. For example one of the questions asked in one of the debates was something like what if anything will you have to go back on your word when you become president. His response was something like I won't go back on any thing I have said. Lets be honest now... he was implying the whole time that we should do more this and that yet still not raise taxes. In all the things he said he would probably have to raise the taxes some where.
Presidential Debate number three was by far the most interesting. Seeing a double screen of each and watching their facial responses' was not the most appealing thing to see. I would get mad at each of them for their facial remarks. In this debate I thought that McCain was a little cranky. He tended to interrupt a lot. Also he spoke very poorly about Biden while Obama was very picky in the words he chose about Palin. He seemed to want to hold back his thoughts so that Americans were the ones to decide and not force feed his thoughts down Americans throats. I also thought McCain was very rude when he would interrupt, but the one time that Obama did he looked like ummmmm... your not suppose to do that, that is a very rude thing to do. This was after about McCain's seventh or so interruption. Also I found it very weird how McCain took it so hard about some one bashing him. When you get that far in politics should probably have discovered not to take things that personal. And he was practically begging Obama to apologize on behalf of this guys choice of words. First of all he went on with this for a very long time and it took away from some more important topics they could of talked about. The bad things said about him can't be that bad for example being old. You really can't help that. However some of the things said about Obama are extremely bad and racial for example people have called him a terrorist. If you think about that, that is completely crazy he has lived in America his whole life and that is the RESPECT that you give him? He would like to take his American pride even one step further in being able to represent America as the First African American Man. And you don't hear Obama getting angry and exploding about something so crazy and absurd that people have claimed against him. After all to meet with other world leaders you would have to take harsh criticism. And I thought that was something McCain claimed to know. I am not sure he truly does. After all to have someone meet preconditions with someone you want to talk to is pretty crazy I think. If you really need to talk to them about something important the preconditions are probably what you want to talk to them about. For example if you wanted to talk to Iran about nuclear bombs I bet the precondition would be to talk is to get rid of all nuclear bombs. Now that's going to get no one anywhere. One last thing about McCain during the presidential debate it seemed to me his hearing went bad during one part of the debate. It was about taxes. Obama said that he would like to raise taxes for the top 5% of America. And McCain's response was something like this OH, That's a real patriotic thing to do go and raise taxes on the American people. What Obama wants to do is raise taxes for people that can afford it. Instead of where McCain would like to not raise any at all and stay in a war longer so that our debt grows larger and larger. And with all his new ideas he expects not to raise any. I think he is just trying to make the rich happy that donate to him. Unlike Obama who is willing to do the nasty work to help out America. I also like how Obama was like so people like me and McCain who can afford this will pay more to help out and to contribute more to our government. Another rich person was like Oh no I don't know what I will do if taxes are raised, I guess I will have to stop buying hundred dollar tissues.
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Well, I don't know about the $100 tissues, but it's hard for me to see that either of the candidates are like me. They walk in different circles and have differently-sized wallets. Obama seems like an ordinary guy, but he went to Harvard, didn't he? Hmm.
That doesn't mean I don't like him. After all, I'm kind of counting on my President being more educated in politics than I am. But it is also for that reason that I kind of cringe each time Obama or any politician claims he's just like me or that he is championing "us." (After all, Obama can't bowl! . . . but wait, neither can I.)
Nevertheless, it's important to voters to identify with the candidate (pathos, right?). Therefore, I expect Obama to wear jeans from time to time and pretend to bowl, I expect McCain to walk through steel mills with a hard hat, and I expect still another "hockey mom" speech from Palin. But separating the reality from the image is difficult.
McCain responds with the "Straight Talk Express," and while the phrase promises honesty, it's also a crafted phrase which is a sales pitch on its own. In this way, I kind of admired the Obama who would occasionally stumble on a word or two because it unexpectedly made him human, not merely a word wizard.
I was mesmerized by the first 50 pages of Obama's "Audacity of Hope," but then I realized: I don't want to be hypnotized by a President; I just want to believe in one.
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