Talk Elections

I have a deal: I'll say something nice about Senator McCain, and ask my other Democratic/left-leaning indies to do the same.  In return, I'll ask the GOP posters do do the same about Senator Obama.  I'll go first: John McCain was very polite when I ran into him in an airport a few years back, and took thirty seconds or so out of his day to talk to me.

Go.

John McCain has served his country well, and with honor.

Well this thread will go well. ::)

I like this thread.  It's a little first-grade, but the environment here for the last week has been pre-kindergarten at best.  A little humility is warranted, I think.

Let's publicly scorn the first person to @%#! it up.

Obama can read a teleprompter well, and comes across calm and composed even when upping the wattage in his cadence, which is not easy to do. I think Obama also has a cautious temperament, which is reassuring given his sometimes rather disquieting on and off agenda for those of us who get worried when it is "on."

That is about the best I can do gang. I hope it passes muster. :)

So who are YOU going to say something nice about. :P

John McCain excels in the town hall style forum and is really a pretty good orator when not facing the teleprompter. He is also a genuine nice guy.

Where do indies fit into this?

McCain is....

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McCain can.....uhm...

McCain will.....uhh....


yeah I cant do this.

Well, that took exactly 7 minutes and 49 seconds, or two responses, to get backhanded.  Oh well ;)

And, hell, I'll say something nice about virtually anyone.  Obama seems to fight for community causes with an even-handed temperament and he is not a zealot.  McCain served this country with honor and dignity, and has clearly advocated causes of deep principle.  I hear Bob Barr makes a mean turkey sandwich.

Humanity is generally a pretty lovely thing.

You don't like either of them, do you?  Well, try both of them.

Oh, and as a bonus, I'll do President Bush: the National Do Not Call List was a good idea.

He did that?  Huh.  Never knew that.  That's a good one, actually; one of the few things in politics that's actually improved my quality of life.  Spuriously constitutional, maybe, but everyone has their niche.

McCain gets props for managing to get the nod despite people saying he had less chance than Ron Paul at the start. Also he at least *tries* to look different than Bush. That's a start, now if he could actually BE the moderate maverick people portray him as...

Obama? Well that's a tough one. Well his wife is better looking than Bush/McCain's wife and isn't a stepford wife. Also, I like how he makes conservatives work overtime coming up with new attacks on him.

The Do not call list and making Michael Moore sh**t himself were the two good things done by Bush.

McCain is a surprisingly good campaigner as his primary comeback showed. Also I respect him as a candidate (the republicans infuriated me in being smart and choosing the only candidate that could stand a chance in November) and feel that he would genuinely work hard for the American people if elected. He is a politician that remains an independent thinker as much as is possible for a politician in today's world.

NEVER!!!!!!



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I've just posted some good things about Obama.

McCain is a great man and a war hero who really values this country's armed forces and its people. I think he is also very polite and humble as well.

Barack Obama does a great job of heightening racial tensions and exploting his race.  He also has an amazing sense of self-confidence.

McCain has a good-looking trophy wife.

Let the scorning begin!

I wasn't the first, that would be MATCHU I believe, 7 mins and 48 secs in as Alcon noted ;P, Soulty was the first one not to praise Obama

MATCHU abstained as did Soulty.

O.K. let's not hijack this thread.

This whole thread is absolutley absurd, politics isn't about playing nice and praising the other guy, Obama is trash and deserves to be treated as such until he does more than be black.

......and it's done...

He's being "un-black" at the moment.  He's also running away from his more extreme positions. He's trying to please you, and yet you scorn his advances. 

*Flies Mission Accomplished Banner* :)

McCain took a very courageous stand on Lebanon when it was unpopular to do so within his own party, defying Reagan in the process.

That worked out well didn't it?  Oh dear.

All right...

Obama is great at getting his message across to the people of my demographic (18-29); he is an astounding public speaker, and I'm sure he's a pretty interesting fellow to talk to. I'd love to sit down and just chat with him and maybe have a beer or two.

I think he did a great job as a community organizer and I like how Jesse Jackson has criticized his campaign...Obama gets major respect from me there.

Nader did some good in the past.

cop out!!

What?  That's something nice.  :)  Now I need someone to say something nice about Steve Adams. 

McCain decided to stay in a POW camp because he knew it would be good for his career, so I guess I'll give him credit for thinking ahead.

lol

Well this thread was fun but failed. Apparently if some people think the opposing candidate is trash they won't even try to hide it(this goes for both sides), so I guess if anyone wants to have a real argument just try and ignore all of this.

Mccain was my favorite politican from about 2000-3/18/2003. He has always been a fighter against government waste and I love how he tries to reform Washington. Without all this war business who knows who I would vote for.

I switched parties and voted for McCain in 2000 because I sincerely believed he represented a direction for the Republican Party of integrity and social libertarianism which I didn't agree with overall, but which I respected more than I did Bush's policies, and felt would be good for the country given that we have a two-party system. I respect him for his innate resistance to being handled and his desire to say what's on his mind (and here I refrain from qualifying that in a way that would insult him).

I'm not sure I can say anything about McCain that I haven't already said.

He is and always will be one of my heroes.  He's one of the bravest men alive and every time I see his crippled arms, I get choked up...because (I know you'll make fun over this but I don't care) he did that for me.  And for you.  Our veterans are treasures and should be treated as such.

With regard to his politics, well -- all I can say is that I hope the real John McCain is the maverick who ran for President in 2000 and for whom I was prepared to cross party lines.  Thus far, I'm not seeing anyone resembling that.

As to Bob Barr -- he was great in "Borat".   ::: runs :::

That goes for Alan Keyes as well,
"It appears to me that what you have encountered as what is known as a homosexual"

Now that this is over:

Sarah Palin...hmm...Sarah Palin is...well...

Give me a minute:

She is genuinely proud of her humble roots and has managed to come quite far, much further than you would expect for someone who has a husband who works up at the North Slope.  She's tenacious and, with a little lot of seasoning, could be a fixture of American politics for the next decade.

I really liked his executive order repealing Executive Order 13233.

Me too like his naturality.. And he is one of the bravest man which I have ever seen and I got admired of him and his braveness make my thought so awesome...
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george
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