Question of the Day | 08/18/2008 12:00 am
Who would you like to see John McCain choose for his vice-presidential running mate?
© AP
10 Comments
Read more about: Election, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics, president, Republican National Convetion, Vice President
419 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment
Frannie, As you said that was McCain’s audience, not Obamas. Daily Kos is a liberal site that blogged from the event, here’s their take today:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/18/103952/453/837/569702
And photos of the demonstrations outside. Plus a poll—on a left-wing site—-who won the demonstrations….and choices including. “Democracy won” which is what won the poll.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/0543/81421/399/569139
It’s not about hearing the answers, it’s about hearing the questions ahead of time.
It’s also about Rick Warren and the Saddleback Church saying McCain was on site in a sound proof room and that not being the case.
Marjorie,
I would have to agree with you, McCain took the day, but there was still a lot of applause for Obama.
Did you hear the latest controversy? They’ll be talking about it on Larry King tonight as far as I know. Apparently McCain was supposed to be in a soundproof room in the building while Obama was being interviews, but the Pastor, Rick Warren has now admitted that was not the case and McCain was actually not in the building or being kept in a soundproof room anywhere. From what I’ve heard he was in his motorcade. Now there is a lot of questioning being done about whether or not McCain had access to the Obama interview, thus the questions being asked, before it was his turn.
This has been alleged by the other side—with no evidence yet that I have heard of—and it has also been pointed out that this was no some absolute cone of silence deal—as someone dubbed it. And even in formal “debates,” everyone knows the subjects—Warren said he told them both what he would ask. So to me, this is a non-starter.
Star: “…Warren said he told them both what he would ask.”
I heard that, too, and it makes sense. McCain, especially, had his answers well thought out. He’s an old drummer, that one.
Hi, DeBurca. Did you resolve your computer issue? McCain had obviously been informed days ahead of time what the questions would be from Rick Warren. He’s never been able to rattle off answers that quickly before. Regardless, Obama needs to answer questions with strong, forthright responses in the first paragraph or two that comes out of his mouth, and only afterward get into the intellectual details. Several commentators noted that Obama seemed to answer the questions as though only he and Warren were in the room, whereas McCain looked at, and played to, the largely conservative audience. Obama needs to realize that McCain is an attack dog, and be ready for that in the debates.
Yep, it seems resolved now, don’t know what happened. I hope that this doesn’t become a race in which Obama needs to dumb down his responses to 3 word slogans and spin so everyone can understand him.
To a degree, that’s the :10-second soundbite world we live in now. You’ve got to know how to play the media. Obama’s done a great job, but now he’s got to get ready for the :05-second, made-for-TV slogans sure to pour out of McCain’s mouth: “I’ll chase Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell. I Know how to get him!”. Sure, by keeping the troops in Iraq for another 100 years? I’ll give McCain a slight break on that one - just fun to kick him a little. But the one we should be roasting for promising to get bin Laden is George W. I feel he let America down on that score.
It amazes me that people will let McCain get away with that statement. First of all… he never follows with a real answer as to WHAT he thinks he knows about getting him. Two, if he ends up at the gates of hell, apparently McCain will not have done a great job of finding him.
DeBurca, I can’t believe how some of the posters on this site stoop again and again to personal attacks on other Wow.com participants, simply because they have a different opinion. Marjorie’s saying on the “McCain’s not a lady man?” thread that I “have nothing intelligent to say” because of my belief that McCain is anti-women.
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- The Love Goddess: In Sickness and in Health ... But Hold the Sickness
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- The World in Vogue (Photos)
- Mr. wOw: Falling in Love Again With 'Marlene'
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
- Joan Ganz Cooney Still Shops the Way She Always Has
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- The World in Vogue (Photos)
- Announcing the Winner of Our 'Caption This' Contest
- Liz Smith Remembers the 'Good Old Days' of Department Stores
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Let Down and Felt Up? by E.D. Hill
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- Mr. wOw: Falling in Love Again With 'Marlene'
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- The Love Goddess: In Sickness and in Health ... But Hold the Sickness
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Caption This!
wOw Features
Reader Voices
Caption This!
Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
