Lot of comment on this program on local talk shows today. The overwhelming consensus was that McCain scored a big win. His answers had a Reaganesque directness and simplicity to them. Obama was too clever by half, dodging legitimate questions ("above my pay grade") and lapsing quickly into blame America libspeak.
Probably the best evidence that McCain scored big was the whispers from team Obama that McCain must have received the questions ahead of time. How else could the old doddering half senile guy outsmart probably the most intelligent and moral man ever to run for office? Alan Greenspan's wife, Andrea Mitchell, who is as loyal a water carrier for obama as exists in the media, dutifully passed on these charges on one of the Sunday talk shows. Another journalist called up the church and asked and it turns out that yes, McCain did get the first two questions in advance. But so did Obama, and apparently he also got the third.
There's nothing a pol can do to turn off his media supporters quicker than to lure them out on a limb, then watch as it is chopped off behind them. It's one thing to casually slander your grandmother who raised you. To expose one of the grandees of the Washington press to ridicule is inexcusable however.
Probably the best evidence that McCain scored big was the whispers from team Obama that McCain must have received the questions ahead of time. How else could the old doddering half senile guy outsmart probably the most intelligent and moral man ever to run for office? Alan Greenspan's wife, Andrea Mitchell, who is as loyal a water carrier for obama as exists in the media, dutifully passed on these charges on one of the Sunday talk shows. Another journalist called up the church and asked and it turns out that yes, McCain did get the first two questions in advance. But so did Obama, and apparently he also got the third.
There's nothing a pol can do to turn off his media supporters quicker than to lure them out on a limb, then watch as it is chopped off behind them. It's one thing to casually slander your grandmother who raised you. To expose one of the grandees of the Washington press to ridicule is inexcusable however.
