To me, this was a very real moment that just felt so awkward and phony that it may last a lot longer than any other thing that was said last night. The way he couldn’t remember the name was just…icky. Bad moment for Obama.
To me, this was a very real moment that just felt so awkward and phony that it may last a lot longer than any other thing that was said last night. The way he couldn’t remember the name was just…icky. Bad moment for Obama.
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September 27, 2008 at 8:35 am
this is why he won’t be president
September 27, 2008 at 9:59 am
very bad moment, indeed, esp. because he didn’t seem to be able to remember the Sergent’s name…..
September 27, 2008 at 10:06 am
oh dear!
just noticed that that point precisely was made already – it is way too early and the baby was up way too much last night 🙂
Maybe they will replay a few more times how Obama made a fool out of himself with this line …
September 27, 2008 at 1:49 pm
My favorite line was McCain’s: “…I don’t even have a seal yet.”
September 27, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Yeah, that moment was so awkward and weird– totally playground stuff. Obama wanted to prove he could play with the big kids, and to me it just came off as lame and petty. He was so.. bad, but a lot of people didn’t see it, didn’t notice that he never actually answered the question he was asked, and contradicted himself rather much for an important debate.
September 27, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Good line from McCain, I thought:
What Senator Obama doesn’t seem to understand that if without precondition you sit down across the table from someone who has called Israel a “stinking corpse,” and wants to destroy that country and wipe it off the map, you legitimize those comments.
September 27, 2008 at 8:19 pm
My mom thought that moment was funny, but my younger sisters (17 and 18) and I really cracked up. Too reminiscent of playground politics and sibling rivalry. “Oh yeah? I can fit TWO quarters up my nose!”
September 28, 2008 at 12:56 am
I had trouble watching B.O. when he made his comments because most of his replies were so condescending, but that one, without a doubt was immature and so childish. It told you the type person we are dealing with—Lord help us. I am praying the 40 Days to stop abortion and to stop him from being president. He really makes my skin crawl–so icy, so robotic, with such an evil agenda.
September 28, 2008 at 2:53 am
Yes, but this was the “best” moment of the debate for the NBC morning show. It really turned the debate toward Obama and McCain became very negative for the rest of the show.
Spin, spin, spin. You’d think these people would get dizzy.
Sharon
September 29, 2008 at 11:14 am
That moment stuck out for me too. It was a little jaw-dropping. What’s really interesting is that it received no critical commentary from the mainstream media (that I’ve seen) in what otherwise seems like a negative avalanche of media commentary parsing McCain’s every word and gestalt. I felt that Obama was really slipping towards the end, and seemed to lapse into the same feverish “talking point dysphoria” that Palin is currently being roasted for (re. her somewhat mashed comments on the bailout during the Couric interview). Yet Palin, not Obama, is the who gets lampooned in another SNL skit.
September 29, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I think he was trying to make the point that there are also those who are family of those in the war who disagree with it. In this election (and in general) people like to argue that if you disagree with the war you are unpatriotic. I felt that is what McCain was saying and Obama used that moment to try and point out that you can be patriotic and care about our soldiers and be against it.
Which by the way…I hope all Catholics are against the war. But I guess you all only care about abortion and forget about other types of killing.
September 29, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Anon – the trouble with your interpretation is that the Sergeant’s family support the war and have specifically asked Obama to quit wearing their son’s bracelet; I don’t imagine they were pleased that Obama brought him up nationally in a childish, playground “oh yeah? Me too!” moment; nor that he couldn’t even remember his name unless he read it.
To answer your not quite asked question, I am against war, which is why I’m mad that our enemies started one with us. The sooner we win, the sooner everyone’s soldiers can go home – both ours AND theirs.