76 (edited by Gladiator 05-Oct-2008 01:12:59)

Re: Vice-Presidential Debate: Palin vs Biden

i don't believe it's unfair Golk
actually i think it's what obama's campaign is so well at doing and have worked so hard at doing, and i'm guna go ahead and give some of that credit to obama aswell, as he's the captain of the ship
they have used EVERY EVERY possible resource out there, EACH one, from facebook to text messaging to social networking sites even i haven't heard of or got invitations for, it's just amazing... and they deserve to get more money, and they deserve to have more adverts
McCain camp could've done the same, but they were too late

obama's campaign really and truly has been built from donations of sometimes even less than $5, and these people return, this would not be the case if they once just donatd 1000 dollars... psychologically they would feel they've done all they can...
they might actually in the end have donated more than $5 with $25's and $10s throughout the campaign


as far as the personal attacks go, i'm afraid they might influence some people's vote but i think mccain would be shooting himself again if he did it at any time where there were news that needed to be adressed and he went out like this.. Palin i think will have another gaf sometime in the near future, she can't go on the offensive, she's only really oppened herself to conservatives, i don't think independents are paying too much attention to her..i think she had lost her voice with them already and can't really gain it back
she could be effective on energy issues though...
but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONM7148cTyc --these line of ads, where obama is sitting in the living room, they have one for EVERY important issue, i think they're really effective

if mccain plays that card, this is what obama needs to do, go back to his primary tone, talk about the issues, again and again, take over the networks with those ads addressing all the issues.. and in the back or inbetween hit hard, keep on saying, they're trying to scare us into voting for them "enough - enough is enough, i love america too much to let this happen again and see ordinary families suffer 4 more years like they've suffered in the last 8... they don't wanna talk about the issues cuz they know they can't win on the issues, cuz they know if they talk about the issues, americans will see what happened when we implemented their policies over the past 8 years"

something like that could counter it preety effectively, as long as they stick to their strategy ..the one message at one time..no mixed signals
mccain really hasn't grasped that yet..

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"they have used EVERY EVERY possible resource out there, EACH one, from facebook to text messaging to social networking sites even i haven't heard of or got invitations for, it's just amazing..."

Come one Glad, now's the time to admit you're a volunteer sent to the IC forum tongue

You're sooo

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LOL tongue yeah i subscribed to them aswell tongue
didn't bother subscribing to mccains, doubt they know how an e mail works
they're probably still figuring out how to type "@", i don't think emails work when it's  gladiator2hotmail.com tongue

buh anyways, nah i'm not a volunteer, tongue but i bet u they have volunteers on some of those other sites that actually get people you can convince tongue

and yeah the spamming thing.. you gotta admit though, they give some nice deals, $15 for a shirt or a coffee mug tongue, u coul use that shirt to wear underneath tongue they cost atleast $25 now a days in stores hehe big_smile
you get some good deals big_smile
and another thing, like i said they don't ask for much, and then you feel like you can contribute, cuz $5 means preety much nothing to a lot of people and if everyone of them donate that much, that's a TON of money

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foreign policy-wise i'd prefer a leader who recognizes he doesn't know the situation, and hence is likely to look into it, versus a leader who fabricates historical and political fables, and makes decisions off that. seems like biden is just a continuation of bush, if you compare his lebanon remarks to what transpired in iraq.

if only we had more politicians brave enough to recognize when they don't know the answer.

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Like McCain admitting that he did not know a whole lot about economics, ET?

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it is for the secretary of the treasury to be proficient in economics.

i didn't know McCain admitted that. good for him.

the presidency isn't the only office in Washington that's run that way. hint: who do you think writes the thousands of pages that comprise the bills that run through Congress.

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> Golk wrote:

> I still think those debates influence the undecided.

Clearly undecided might have been taken aback by the charge on Palin after her interviews. The fact that almost all of the national press had headlines saying she did (at least) good enough helps to consider the McCain ticket on the same level as the Obama one, if you're undecided.

I mean she "won" credibility, so it's not all about losing on debates, and the aftermath of the debate in this case "helps" the campaign.


Well, according to the polls on both debates, Obama/Biden got higher approvals than McCain/Palin. If anything, according to the polls, Biden dominated Palin. She just got higher "better than expected" votes. Which means if anything, most of the country had a bad opinion and low expectation of her. All she did was not answer questions at a debate really. Most of the undecided americans were undecided because they actually know politics and realized that she didn't show anything at all about what she knows about politics. The only people who approved of her performance were republicans who didn't really trust her in the first place. Now they feel she can handle pressure.

Sex without the e is still SX!

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Anyhow, my problem with Palin is that she has refused to answer any questions since being nominated (including the debate) and so far hasn't really said anything without a source. Here's an example:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/04/palin.obama/index.html


Palin says Obama is friends with terrorists quoting an article from the NY times but then in the same article it says, "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.'


That's something kids do. We are adults. I don't need a president who's not going to point out facts and refuse to answer questions from the media.

Sex without the e is still SX!

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My intent was not to say Palin won the debate. With a little bit of objectivity, it's clear she did not, as far as debates go. What she did is offer a good image.

Now, who won most out of this debate?

Biden who was supposed to win it from day one (and by the way did not win it like 'oh my god he's so much better')?
Or Palin who was looking like a clown on every major channel for days, and managed to erase most of that perception?

That is my point. All I'm defending, from the start, is Palin as a very clever political move by the McCain campaign.
I still think it's an incredible strategy and that Romney/Huckabee types would have been cannon fodder for 'more of the same' in the midst of the economic crisis, while Palin managed to completely change the public perception of the republican ticket.

85 (edited by Gladiator 05-Oct-2008 16:56:38)

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Golk don't forget, palin can't help mccain with independents..
independents are genrally smarter by not being in either party tongue
Biden can do great with jewish voters and blue-collar workers

and yeah nolio, i guess we know which newspaper she reads now, NYT, but she doesn't read it all, she jumps the gun like a little kid who's so excited about something that he wants to tell the whole world only to later find out that he was mistaken...
i don't care now, Palin's investigation, her whitch doctor, her dinasour and man walking together theories, and her not knowing what a VP is, her keeping an eye on russia's remote desserted island...are ALL fair game now

this is what i want obama's campaign to do

show that picture of russia's remote island, have palin standing there on the shore with a gun, a whictch hat, a dinasour in the background, and she's shooting her ex borther in law and a wolf at the same time, while looking to russia through a pair of binoculars
now that would be some ass kicking --

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well, what i found to be a lil sad in that debate was that both of them a million of times said things like:

biden: and john mckain voted 90% with bush
palin: blabla

next question

biden: need to say again... mckain voted 90% with bush
palin: ow the records show obama voted against it
biden: oh he did not... but did i mention mckain voted 90% with bush?

to me it appeared to be more a discrediting of the political opponent then an advertising of own politics and ideas.
after a while i got too bored of it and decided to fall asleep...

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Gladiator wrote:

"Independents are genrally smarter by not being in either party"
No, so called "Indipendents" are really liberals, affraid to say so.


Also, the top 1% of intellegent individuals in the US are quite LIBERTARIAN.
In other words, they are more Conservative, than Liberal........for sure.

Come .......joust w/the master.
I'm always Right.   You are just intellectually Left.....behind.
Individual patriot, and a REAGAN Conservative.

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well it was a joke tongue
but thanks for clearing that up BW

obama is guna win this shiznit big_smile expect mccain have some wild swings in desperation and most likely miss..

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who do libertarians vote for?

Brother Simon, Keeper of Ages, Defender of Faith.
~ ☭ Fokker

90 (edited by Inviltrist 06-Oct-2008 04:30:52)

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Palin reminded me of a child in a spelling competition.   Trained to remember how some "complex" word is spelled, yet at the same time remaining totally clueless as to what it really means.



The average life span for an American male is somewhere between 72 and 75 years old.   By the end of his first term, if Elected, McCain would be 76.    How can anyone honestly be comfortable with Palin gaining power if McCain happens to raise his arms too high and has a heart attack?



It's enough to make one lose faith in American Democracy entirely.



I honestly think if McCain died that Palin would be forced to resign from overwhelming political pressure from both parties.



... and you would see the nation at it's weakest moment yet.



The dream of our founding fathers is long dead.  Someone needs to hit the reset button.

He who stands atop the highest pyramid of skulls can see the furthest

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palin sounds much closer to the founding fathers than any of the other 3 on the tickets

but you'd have to actually know about the founding fathers to recognize that.

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please explain. I don't think she sounds anything like them at all. For starters, I have not heard too many interviews of hers to know how she sounds like. Which to me, puts her closer to being a communist.

I am all-in on electrics.

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she sounds like tina fey

big_smile
and yes i'm sure, it's not the other way around X(

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> Elysian Thebes wrote:

> palin sounds much closer to the founding fathers than any of the other 3 on the tickets

but you'd have to actually know about the founding fathers to recognize that.




Wow!  What an empty assertion. 



Please back up your statements with evidence, not just hot air.




I already have a feeling what angle you're going to try and go for,  I just want to see if you actually are ignorant enough to say it smile



So come on,  back up your statement,  or maybe you aren't able?  Maybe you just thought it would sound good?




Just because you don't have much intelligence doesn't mean you should insult mine.     Especially when I'm more well versed on the subject then you.




I'm giving you a chance to back-up your statement though.  Come on.  Make a case for Sarah Palin being the closest thing to the founding fathers vision.



I honestly want to hear this

He who stands atop the highest pyramid of skulls can see the furthest

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"

Please back up your statements with evidence, not just hot air.
"

why dont you attack his statements with evidence instead of just blowing hot air? hypocrite.