With all these "obstacles" that Barack has overcome....it really makes you think what an amazing person Barck is and the campaign staff he has.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I've been thinking that very thought the last few weeks. He is truly amazing. He has had my heart pounding since he announced last year. I think I will weep tears of joy on election night and then again on January 20th. I have been pretty down and out for eight years and for the first time, really since Reagan, I have felt elated. Clinton never really thrilled me but he was fairly harmless and the nation puttered along pretty well. Until he couldn't control his cock. I am still angry at him for that shit. Jesus, hire a pro...don't fuck with interns. But Obama makes me feel the way I felt about Bobby Kennedy in 68. And that also scares the shit outta me.
truebluecoondog
· 1 year ago
I agree on all counts. Except, my heart was pounding since his convention speech 4 years ago. Oh, and the Reagan thing. I could smell his rotting brain cells through the TV and never could figure out why everyone else couldn't see that he wasn't really "with us", but in some kind of fantasy land.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
i had a friend whose dad knew ronnie.....he told me that nancy was really running things from middle of the first term...ronnie was already losing it
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
You speak for many of us.
jmcon007
· 1 year ago
...except that GW is not debating tonight. John McCain is.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
The "ACORN" doesn't fall far from the tree. (speaking of another non-event the republicans are trying to drag up to not have to speak about the economy they created.)
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Don't try to distract us with Schieffer, John.
The Obama campaign is obviously in crisis. Every poll is showing McCain surging ahead of Obama right now. Sarah Palin has finally been cleared of all wrongdoing in "Troopergate" and the economy is finally on the mend, as the stock market is showing today.
You are erratic and out of touch John.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
John is being proactive...like we all should be. at least......we can say.....the "problem" was brought up before the debate...and not only after the debate.
I have Schieffer Madness! I just knew if I didn't post a /snark at the end it would confuse people.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
if this was john kerry, i would be concerned. i don't have that problem with president obama.
jescot
· 1 year ago
As much as we would like to link Bush with McCain its a stretch to say that because Schieffer golfed with Bush Sr. (not even JR) he will act favorably to McCain. A real stretch.
fostert
· 1 year ago
Of course he'll be objective. These days, 'objective' means having a strong right wing bias. So he fits that category. Think about it, a 'balanced' panel has two Republicans, Joe Lieberman, and a moderate Democrat. Fair is only fair if the Republicans win.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
OUTLAW THE FUCKING SPORT OF GOLF!!!!! Half of our problems are deals made on golf courses by rich white guys who sit on each other's boards of directors.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
just require golfers to wear ball-gags... problem solved.
and the repug players might enjoy the game more.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
I like where this is going.
Milli
· 1 year ago
At the risk of being over-confident here, Obama's made it this far relatively unscathed why would tonight present problems that he hasn't already faced? In a year and a half he's overthrown the Clinton dynasty in the Dem Party, and outwitted the ENTIRE Republican smear machine - thats huge. He could probably take questions tonight from Satan himself and still come out ok. Unless some long lost love-child runs onto the stage and yells "Daddy", there's not much that seems to rattle him.
And the thing is, he's not doing anything special or brilliant here. He's using his natural ability to communicate and plain old common sense as his guide to win. Its nothing earth-shattering - its just been so strikingly absent from our government us for a loooong time that it seems revolutionary.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Very well put.
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
By now Obama has also learned the political "debater's" trick of answering the question you want to answer, whether or not it's the question that the moderator asked. They all do it; what shocked us about The Divine Sarah was that she was so forthright about saying so.
Butch1
· 1 year ago
Are there not any other commentators available who are not tied to the GOP swill trough? Surely, we can come up with an unbiased person who will be fair to both of them.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
I'm torn. While I can easily imagine Schieffer asking a question too dirty for Pontius Johnny's clean senatorial hands, I can more readily believe this long time CBS face will have an elderly eye on the history books and the nyc-beltway media crowd.
BusyTimmy
· 1 year ago
I have not real opinion on whether Schieffer will be biased. But let's not forget that when McCain started whining about Gwen Iffel, we pointed out that he and his campaign signed off on her. I'm sure Obama has done the same. Too late to change the rules now.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
wait a minute... as much as I agree with most posts on this site...
you're showing your double-standard here John.
we attacked the right because the mcsame camp didn't think Gwen Ifill could be unbiased... calling them whiners essentially, because mcsame knew ahead of time who would moderate the debate and he'd had plenty of time to voice his objections over the month that he knew who the moderator was.
now you're questioning this guy Schieffer? c'mon... if you're going to accuse the repugs of whining, don't do the same thing as they did.
bad form.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
You're suffering from a rather simple logical fallacy. The problem with the right's critique of Gwen Ifill as biased was not that there is no bias in the world, and therefore launching a critique of someone as biased was per se unacceptable. The critique was that the underlying facts of the charge against Ifill were laughable. This is a similar problem people have with boycotts - they think boycotting a religious right bigot for spouting bigotry is the same thing as the religious right boycotting, say, Ellen because she's gay. I've heard people say "either boycotts are acceptable or they're not." Well, no. Boycotts per se are neither good or evil. It depends whether the motivation of the boycotter is to further bigotry or further something good. Same thing here. I don't think anyone ever said that bias didn't exist in the world, which is the underlying point that your entire argument is based on. And that's why It's wrong.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
I recognize the bias here, hell... I'm a part of it!
still, this is the second thread today on the subject... that can't be considered whining?
anyway, I don't think it matters if he's biased or not... if Obama continues to be Obama tonight, mcsame is toast.
judyinnm
· 1 year ago
Don't forget that Bob Schieffer was incredulous that Wes Clark said he didn't think crashing an airplane and being a POW qualified McCain to be commander-in-chief. He labeled it "swiftboating". Schieffer is still on the tire swing, in spades.
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really running things from middle of the first term...ronnie was
already losing it
The Obama campaign is obviously in crisis. Every poll is showing McCain surging ahead of Obama right now. Sarah Palin has finally been cleared of all wrongdoing in "Troopergate" and the economy is finally on the mend, as the stock market is showing today.
You are erratic and out of touch John.
at least......we can say.....the "problem" was brought up before the debate...and not only after the debate.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com
Read it and weep!
Half of our problems are deals made on golf courses by rich white guys who sit on each other's boards of directors.
and the repug players might enjoy the game more.
And the thing is, he's not doing anything special or brilliant here. He's using his natural ability to communicate and plain old common sense as his guide to win. Its nothing earth-shattering - its just been so strikingly absent from our government us for a loooong time that it seems revolutionary.
you're showing your double-standard here John.
we attacked the right because the mcsame camp didn't think Gwen Ifill could be unbiased... calling them whiners essentially, because mcsame knew ahead of time who would moderate the debate and he'd had plenty of time to voice his objections over the month that he knew who the moderator was.
now you're questioning this guy Schieffer? c'mon... if you're going to accuse the repugs of whining, don't do the same thing as they did.
bad form.
still, this is the second thread today on the subject... that can't be considered whining?
anyway, I don't think it matters if he's biased or not... if Obama continues to be Obama tonight, mcsame is toast.