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Obama, otoh, sounded unsure, lacking terribly in depth, seeming to shore up my suspicion that he’s all about marxist theory and not anything real-world. He stuttered a lot and really could not get a sentence out easily at all (I’m not kidding!). It was shocking how bad he looked. When asked if he’d ever voted to decrease abortion, he dodged the question by talking about something else–because as we all know, he hadn’t!

Also very telling, he said he wouldn’t have confirmed Justice Clarence Thomas. He started to say it was because Thomas was “inexp”, but before the whole word dropped off his tongue, he clearly and suddenly remembered that lack of experience was in fact his own worst problem. SO HE STOPPED MID-WORD! It was SO revealing. Obama KNOWS he isn’t experienced.
I was no great fan of McCain’s before this, but this forum had the effect of moving a lot of evangelicals like me from “voting against Obama” to “voting FOR McCain.” I’m hearing this over and over. This was a major shift for McCain with evangelicals. I was so surprised by what I saw. Suddenly, McCain looks better to me (not perfect, of course) and Obama looks SO much worse. He just looked so ill-suited for the job. Too unsure of himself and instead of easily speaking from the heart, seemed to be putting way too much lawyer-type energy into just trying to sound not as liberal as he is.

Try to watch a repeat of the forum. I’d never watched a single presidential debate before this. Didn’t care to. But I happened onto this, because it was airing on a christian radio station that I turned to casually. I suspect many christians found it the way I did. Something big happened there on Saturday. And it was not good for Obama. The mask was removed from him; and we all saw what he really was. Ill-prepared, shallow, trying to soften what he really is. Trying not to let people see how leftist he really is. I’m so grateful that christians are starting to see the real obama!

Obama Plays the Patriotism Card
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021283.php

Speaking of wretching…How about the fatuous claim that criticism, however unbridled/untempered/unbalanced/unhinged is the highest form of patriotism? Love of country?

Kerry’s “documented record of lying and grand standing before Congress as an anti-war activist” certainly never struck me as the highest form of anything but deceit and weaslehood.

As for Gore…even HE does not believe in the urgency of his message. He, like the rest of his ilk, preach the gospel of “good for thee but not for me.” Only in a world in which words are valued over actions, would such a corroded view make sense.

If ever the $5 “disingenous” should be stuck on someone’s foreheads, Kerry/Gore are two prime candidates/suspects.

I can see a difference.

I wretched, big time, when Kerry decided to run on his Vietnam record. The left and MSM had been all over Bush for his National Guard “escape” from being in harms way. Yet they pulled a complete “baby milk factory” feint to support Kerry as they did with Al Gore and his noble Vietnam far behind the front lines shutterbug role. (Don’t forget the well protected lies about how Max Cleland ended up as a triple amputee.)

(At least Gore didn’t have a documented record of lying and grand standing before Congress as an anti-war activist.)

I have no issue with anti-war sentiments, so long as they respect the delicacy of protecting the lives of those serving in the line of fire.

I grew up with a clear understanding of what is means to be “disingenuous.” Maybe that is a $5.00 word, but I learned to avoid that charge like the plague. If someone throws it at you and it sticks, you have a lot of rehabilitation of name and reputation ahead of you.

Kerry and Gore are both disingenuous. They have done nothing to confront either their shortcomings or to compensate. The fact that their supporters are such willing enablers means, in my view, that they are in league with the deceivers.

If McCain or any other Republican screws up, I will be among the first to say so. There is no way I could ever have defended Clinton’s sick Lewinski affair or attempted to explain Sandy Burglar”s “innocent” actions.

When power at any price overtakes crystal clear morality, the parallel universe is the only explanation. The Obama swarm will brook no honest criticism of their messiah. It seems to be Democrat standard operating procedure.

Along those lines….

There is a bizarre, yet prevailing, mythology on the left that the left does not respond forcibly enough to so-called-attacks from the right. In reality, the left is rancid in its attacks and has little sense of scale in its responses.

John Kerry’s insistence that he lost because he was “too nice” struck me as so absurd as to be almost incomprehensible. Meanwhile, Kerry has been forced to admit that he did NOT witness the grotesque acts that he ascribed universally to his peers, but why should that matter …blah blah blah.

And, when BO or Michelle O accuse Americans of being mean, bigoted, moral failures, that is somehow not an attack BUT saying that BO is disturbingly inconsistent IS………….

Go figure….

We seem to have lost the distinction between what is and what isn’t an attack.

Many liberals who strive to shield people from consequences see the conservative value of taking personal responsibility as an attack upon the “defenseless.”

Obama and company are dedicated to big government redistribution of wealth and the creation of government programs staffed with government employees who will see to the raising up of the poor and down trodden.

Anyone who compares socialized medicine with public schools, the DMV, the social security office, the employment office, public housing, food stamps, etc. is automatically a “hater.”

If one attacks the sense and sensibility of government social welfare thinking, many on the liberal left react as if the barbarians are at the gate.

Most of us conservatives really do live in a parallel universe when so many liberals spend so much energy not hearing or reading what we say and insist on talking right past our meaning.

I always tape my lectures. Frequently, I have confrontations from people who clearly heard what I did not say or imply. It is very helpful to provide them with the truth. Even then, I get an occasional genius who charges me with manipulating the tapes.

You just concern yourself with promoting justice and not make excuses for the ugliness in men, conservative OR liberal, because there is more ugly than anything, which is the cusp of the problem. You can’t cover up the smell of poop with Febreeze. It’s still poop.

If people are lying about their virtue, then Father Yahweh will sort that all out.

Some liberals are justified in their angst, and others are not. Conservatives are the same and are just as off – and on point as the next man.

I have also come to the conclusion that there are many who see attacks & hatred where none exist. Perhaps they are projecting from their own feelings. Most of us know of people who give virtually nothing to charity and harbor ugly thoughts about others while assuming that others are just as selfish and mean-spirited. Of course, they never see it in themselves.

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”

I think that it’s quite obvious who was talking straight and to the point, and who was thrashing about a bit….