I actually thought John McCain started the debate very strongly last night. That is, until his anger, his petulance, his DISDAIN for Obama starting shining through.
This video pretty features some of McCain’s nastiest moments:
There was only one man on that stage last night fit to be President.
Could the contrast between Barack Obama and John McCain be any starker? Watching the debate last night, the thought actually crossed my mind that this contest is almost unfair. Obama exudes calm, confidence, focus, energy. McCain looks like an angry, stammering, old man who may blow his top at a moment’s notice. It’s not just that Obama is on the right side of the issues; He LOOKS Presidential. McCain looks like one of the guys I used to sell bingo cards to on Sunday afternoons at Citizens Fire Company. McCain clearly loathes Obama. Once again, he could barely look at him. At times, I expected McCain to pick up his stool and try to slug Obama with it.
Methinks John McCain is going to need to get over his anger. Soon, instead of referring to Obama as “That One,” he’ll be calling him Mr. President.
It’s a video of a speech given on July 1, 2008 by Richard Trumka, the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, to a gathering of union leaders. He lays out the most convincing case I’ve heard about the upcoming election: There’s no good reason for any worker to not vote for Barack Obama; but there is one really bad reason NOT to vote for him.”
While walking to the ferry with my wife yesterday morning, we passed a white man wearing an obviously homemade t-shirt with the words “Hang Obama” written in black marker. It instantly made my blood boil and my heart sink.
How is it possible, in 2008 and directly across the river from Manhattan, that there are still people who feel this way? Who feel it’s appropriate to wear clothing with HATEFUL messages on them? How can we, as a country, STILL be here? How can there still be people walking the streets with such disregard for other human beings?
It made me truly sad, but all the more determined to do everything in my power to help Barack Obama become the next President of the United States.
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
