McCain Plays an Aggressive Offense… When He Wants To
We don’t normally see John McCain in an aggressive front. We typically liken him to a little puppy dog, who doesn’t want to anger anyone and tries to steer away from any type of confrontation. This personality, surprisingly, was lacking last Wednesday, during the third and final presidential debate.
For almost the entirety of the debate, McCain was on the offense and Obama was left answering accusations and questions throughout. Yep, we finally saw McCain at his best and according to most news commentators, we saw Obama as the “cool” and “smooth” candidate he always is. Wait… what?
I laugh… nay, scoff at those commentators and obvious Obama supporters. Throughout the entirety of the debates, they’ve held to the opinion that Obama just has to “hold his own and make it through,” while McCain would have to pull off the argument of his life, as if to say that Obama could do no wrong and has this election in the bag. Dare I say it? This was Obama at his worst. He was on the defense throughout the entire debate, having to prattle on about his usual talking points and defenses for his negative allegations, regurgitating everything he’s been saying since Day 1, or Day 2… whichever felt right at the moment.
I felt that Obama was certainly at his weakest during this debate, and I thought that resonated throughout the nation. Of course the media would tell it differently, they’d skew their polls and sample data, but we all know the truth. McCain won the final debate.
I definitely felt that this debate, held at Hofstra University and moderated by Bob Schieffer, was the most fair and balanced. It was also the most interesting, since Bob covered entirely new and also typical ground. Yes, we again heard their arguments about the economy and the war on terror, but we also heard about abortion, the negative campaign strategies, Obama’s relationship with Ayers (finally), etc.
Going into this debate, however, was quite different. Previous to the debate, Obama was caught actually telling the truth about his economic policy (well, some truths anyway). This information was disclosed to a member of the audience at one of Obama’s rallies. He would raise the taxes on businesses making $250k and would “spread the wealth around” to those that “needed” it. This answer from a question of a concerned plumber, who wants to buy a business in the near future and wants to know the repercussions of doing so, especially when Obama wants to raise taxes on businesses, etc.
Well, this information was used during the debate, and rightly so. McCain used Joe the Plumber as an example of the many hundreds/thousands of entrepreneurs in the United States, who would like to start their own business and become prosperous with a lot of hard work, and believe me, it’s a LOT of hard work. I’ve tried starting a business while working a full 40+hr job and it’s not exactly easy. Running a business takes a hell of a lot more man hours than 40 hours a week, and with that work load, you’d expect to be compensated for the hard work that you put into it. Well, Obama wants to tax these people, take their money (punish them) and redistribute it to those that apparently have no initiative or motive to work hard. Yes, let’s reward these people.
I digress, I can get into this in another post… but as you can see, this was a huge talking point for McCain. Joe the Plumber changed the way these campaigns would be run and aided in the success of McCain’s win in this debate.
Anyway, it was nice to see some differences in this debate from the other three. McCain did mention Ayers and ACORN, but he really didn’t go after Obama for the truth or any more information. He just let Obama get away with his moot answers and carried on. That was disappointing, since we’ve learned so much about his relationships over the last several months, thanks to FOX News and several news radio shows (apparently the only media outlets that actually want to cover everything about this election, and not just attempt to destroy Palin and McCain). However, it was definitely nice to see McCain at least mention them.
Well, there’s really not much more to say about this, since the debate was last Wednesday and so much more has happened since then, but I felt it was necessary to write a post about the last debate of this presidential election. Winner? Definitely McCain. I don’t care what the polls/media says… that’s the truth. It’s getting late, so I’m going to hit the hay. I’m going to try to post something tomorrow (or in the next couple of days) about the recent gaffes (read “truth telling”) of Joe Biden or the recent endorsement of Obama from Colin Powell *shudder*.
You know, it’s almost sad that most of my postings with great talking points and information are up on Facebook… and not on here. With all of the debating/arguing, I pretty much lose the stamina I need to post something worth while on here. ;P Thanks you liberal swine!