Obama vs. McCain

12:41 am EST June 4th, 2008 | News | 7 Comments

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who saw the McCain speech and then the Obama speech and said to myself: WTF was McCain thinking? The man’s been in government for a quarter century. He’s been elected quite a few times. Yet somebody thought it was a good idea to put 200 disinterested people in a pool hall with a yucky green backdrop? And then Obama comes out with a mixed-gender mixed-ethnicity crowd of wildly enthusiastic folks and a world class speech?

That contrast was your campaign ad. America has a history of picking the energetic and vital over the plodding and backward looking. Think of Clinton over Dole, Reagan over Carter, Kennedy over Nixon.

UPDATE: Check out the Free Republic thread on McCain’s speech. They are savaging him.

We are so screwed.

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7 Responses to “Obama vs. McCain”

  1. Steve LaBonne says:
    June 4, 2008 at 5:33 am

    It will be like watching a “race” between a Ferrari and a Model T.

  2. SpiderJ says:
    June 4, 2008 at 6:58 am

    I’ll take your word for it, Oliver. I wouldn’t set foot in Free Republic even if every other site in the Internet had been set on fire/

  3. Duros62 says:
    June 4, 2008 at 8:03 am

    We are so screwed.</blockquote

    The new GOP tagline, ladies and gentlemen.

  4. Vanessa says:
    June 4, 2008 at 11:18 am

    I watched it online today and I was shocked. That speech was REALLY BAD. He seemed very nervous, disingenuous, sweaty, waxy and scared. I was really surprised.

  5. Scott Erb says:
    June 4, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    When McCain starting making all his Iran and Iraq gaffes, I realized that the old guy is intellectually lazy. He doesn’t really take the time to learn detail. The speech last night was horrible. This guy is a really weak candidate.

  6. jp says:
    June 4, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Just what we need, huh? another round with an incurious and lazy git!

  7. Duros62 says:
    June 5, 2008 at 11:01 am

    And his speeches are like little bedtime stories
    It’s like he is speaking to a bunch of gradeschoolers.

    Therein lies the difference. Barack speaks to people like they’re adults.