Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

[heyzeus]

I'm glad OBama went on O'Reilly, if nothing else, so that Bill has to stop proudly claiming "We've invited Senator Obama to be on our show, but he refuses to come" every day. I'd like to watch that. I think all politicians should be subject to hard questions from the opposing viewpoint.

Really though, is there anyone as clearly left as O'Reilly is right, that would be willing to fire some tough questions at McCain? Or maybe that's already happened and I'm just not paying attention.

Olberman.

[wart57]

It will go on and on forever. The only people taking him at his word are those who will defend him on just about everything.

I support Obama and I think he was referring to Palin. And I'm glad he said it. At what point was there an agreement between Obama and Palin that they were to play nice? I certainly think it's a lot more reasonable to poke fun of a candidate that continually refers to herself as a Hockey Mom and compares herself to a pit bull than it is to come onto the national stage of the Republican Convention (as a a complete unknown) and mock someone else's community organizing as being relevant experience. If you don't see the distinction and and recognize the more inflammatory of the two, not to mention which happened first, then there's no need to discuss it further.

I think the claims that Palin's experience as a small town mayor was irrelevant came first.
I also think the entire GOP convention was over the top as far as attacks go.

[Socnorb11]

oh i can't stand him. not because of his views - but because of his tendency to talk over people and I can't stand it when people yell at guests or tell them to shut up.

This. I hate arrogance.

I can definitely understand that. Seems like a fair reason to not like him.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I'm glad OBama went on O'Reilly, if nothing else, so that Bill has to stop proudly claiming "We've invited Senator Obama to be on our show, but he refuses to come" every day. I'd like to watch that. I think all politicians should be subject to hard questions from the opposing viewpoint.

Really though, is there anyone as clearly left as O'Reilly is right, that would be willing to fire some tough questions at McCain? Or maybe that's already happened and I'm just not paying attention.

Keith Olberman.

[JL21]

I think the claims that Palin's experience as a small town mayor was irrelevant came first.

Who was making these claims?

[Spider John]

It showed poor judgment by Obama to use the line, whether it was meant as a jab at Palin or not. It left him open for the negative uproar it is causing.

It may be ridiculous to base your vote on this one thing, but there are some who will vote for McCain because of this, just as some will vote for McCain just because he has chosen a woman for his VP, or Obama because he is black. Many of the votes cast in elections have little to do with the issues.

The difference is that Obama is very clearly black. Palin is very clearly a woman. The "pig" comment is simply one person's interpretation versus another person's.

I agree, but I am talking about the reality of how some people decide to vote.

[Richie Allen]

I think the claims that Palin's experience as a small town mayor was irrelevant came first.

From who?

[Socnorb11]

It will go on and on forever. The only people taking him at his word are those who will defend him on just about everything.

I support Obama and I think he was referring to Palin. And I'm glad he said it. At what point was there an agreement between Obama and Palin that they were to play nice? I certainly think it's a lot more reasonable to poke fun of a candidate that continually refers to herself as a Hockey Mom and compares herself to a pit bull than it is to come onto the national stage of the Republican Convention (as a a complete unknown) and mock someone else's community organizing as being relevant experience. If you don't see the distinction and and recognize the more inflammatory of the two, not to mention which happened first, then there's no need to discuss it further.

I think the claims that Palin's experience as a small town mayor was irrelevant came first.
I also think the entire GOP convention was over the top as far as attacks go.

Feel free to provide me the link and prove me wrong, but I don't "think" that Obama specifically said that her experience was irrelevant. And I can assure you that he didn't mock her about it and laugh the way the Republicans mocked him.

[wart57]

I think the claims that Palin's experience as a small town mayor was irrelevant came first.

From who?

They were all over the media and this board as well as countless bloggers all over the country.

[wart57]

It will go on and on forever. The only people taking him at his word are those who will defend him on just about everything.

I support Obama and I think he was referring to Palin. And I'm glad he said it. At what point was there an agreement between Obama and Palin that they were to play nice? I certainly think it's a lot more reasonable to poke fun of a candidate that continually refers to herself as a Hockey Mom and compares herself to a pit bull than it is to come onto the national stage of the Republican Convention (as a a complete unknown) and mock someone else's community organizing as being relevant experience. If you don't see the distinction and and recognize the more inflammatory of the two, not to mention which happened first, then there's no need to discuss it further.

I think the claims that Palin's experience as a small town mayor was irrelevant came first.
I also think the entire GOP convention was over the top as far as attacks go.

Feel free to provide me the link and prove me wrong, but I don't "think" that Obama specifically said that her experience was irrelevant. And I can assure you that he didn't mock her about it and laugh the way the Republicans mocked him.

I don't think people are reading very well any more. I never said Obama made these claims. I said the attacks were over the top.