My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Saturday, September 27, 2008

McCain Stomps Obama

Last night in the presidential debate McCain spoke of foreign policy and foreign leaders rattling off numbers, countries and names as if the events had just happened the day before. He made it clearly obvious that he was not only aware of what is going on outside of the United States, he was aware of what has been going on for years. He quoted meetings and summits and years of those times and who was in attendance. He related the current state of the countries we are most concerned of in the Middle East and what we should be working toward for our military troops in the war. He related a touching story of wearing a fallen soldier's bracelet for the soldier's mother.

Obama says he has a bracelet too. That was his counter. In fact that is all Obama could do is counter because he does not know half of what McCain knows. It was obvious that Obama was getting angry and was controlling his temper while standing at his podium getting verbally tossed from side to side of the room. Because McCain beat the heck out of him with his vast knowledge of the world, life and the military. When it came Obama's turn to make a statement, his were well rehearsed and memorized. Through the television you could feel him hitting the key points and making emphasis on the right notes, raising his voice at just the right time.

Quietly McCain would rebut, with something profound like, "Senator Obama", showing all due respect to the man, is mistaken about .......strategies, or a number of other things that Obama seemed to not quite understand but was talking about. Personally I felt bad for Obama. He was mad at not getting his point across and getting his cheers. He did not have his supporters filling him full of himself when they should tell him the truth. The American people have just seen who of the two people running for president actually knows what they are talking about.