"Who is Barack Obama?" Asks the Republican presidential candidate John McCain to show the fickleness of the Democratic candidate. After the last TV duel, however, the question is: 'Who is John McCain?'
We are still in Mead View, Arizona and, of course, we watched the third and final presidential debate on TV.
Even if politics is more or less “my” topic, I ask Georg what he thinks about the debate, what impressed him, what surprised him.
“The first thirty minutes I was really surprised by McCain. Well, he began with economy. And he was furious, funny, sharp-witted and he really seems to care about the Americans and their practical problems. Best sentence was ‘I am not George W. Bush. If you want to compete against him, you should have run for office 4 years ago.’ You could see that Obama was a little out of concept.”
Yes, this is what the viewers really mentioned. A strong and funny John McCain, who could reveal his program to the Americans.
But then Joe the plumber appeared…
“When McCain started to talk about Joe the plumber I must start laughing. To me this is a little too far fetched. But Obama had to take the defensive position and John McCain succeeded again.”, Georg said.
After the first half of the debate it looks like a clear victory for the Republican.
But then, John McCain changed his tactics and the great turnaround of the debate started.
Georg: “McCain started personal attacks against Barack Obama. He blamed him to have close contact to terrorists. Sorry, again too personal, too harsh, too senseless. Is McCain’s program so bad, that he has to do that? I could see the sudden change of his facial expressions – the friendly smile, the gentle but resolute tone turned into an angry face, which showed hidden aggressions of the Republican. That was the wrong tactic.”
Before the debate, McCain’s Republican friends had tried to stop him from starting the personal attacks again, cause they were afraid of deterring undecided voters.
“I could see that Obama was the leading man again. McCain could not make one single point in the second half of the debate. Not at the school politic, the abortion issue or the energy questions.”
‘Who is John McCain’ seems to be the important question, because during this presidential debate he showed us two faces. The one, which is really resolute, friendly and issue-orientated. But the other side of the candidate is frightening: The angry, morose old man, who can hardly hide his anger.
To say it with the words of a Republican TV advertisement spot: “How dangerous.”
Georg’s resume and the opinion of the polls, which were started after the debate are the same: Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debate. The Republicans have now 18 days to find the turnaround for their candidate to have again the chance to win this election.
We are still in Mead View, Arizona and, of course, we watched the third and final presidential debate on TV.
Even if politics is more or less “my” topic, I ask Georg what he thinks about the debate, what impressed him, what surprised him.
“The first thirty minutes I was really surprised by McCain. Well, he began with economy. And he was furious, funny, sharp-witted and he really seems to care about the Americans and their practical problems. Best sentence was ‘I am not George W. Bush. If you want to compete against him, you should have run for office 4 years ago.’ You could see that Obama was a little out of concept.”
Yes, this is what the viewers really mentioned. A strong and funny John McCain, who could reveal his program to the Americans.
But then Joe the plumber appeared…
“When McCain started to talk about Joe the plumber I must start laughing. To me this is a little too far fetched. But Obama had to take the defensive position and John McCain succeeded again.”, Georg said.
After the first half of the debate it looks like a clear victory for the Republican.
But then, John McCain changed his tactics and the great turnaround of the debate started.
Georg: “McCain started personal attacks against Barack Obama. He blamed him to have close contact to terrorists. Sorry, again too personal, too harsh, too senseless. Is McCain’s program so bad, that he has to do that? I could see the sudden change of his facial expressions – the friendly smile, the gentle but resolute tone turned into an angry face, which showed hidden aggressions of the Republican. That was the wrong tactic.”
Before the debate, McCain’s Republican friends had tried to stop him from starting the personal attacks again, cause they were afraid of deterring undecided voters.
“I could see that Obama was the leading man again. McCain could not make one single point in the second half of the debate. Not at the school politic, the abortion issue or the energy questions.”
‘Who is John McCain’ seems to be the important question, because during this presidential debate he showed us two faces. The one, which is really resolute, friendly and issue-orientated. But the other side of the candidate is frightening: The angry, morose old man, who can hardly hide his anger.
To say it with the words of a Republican TV advertisement spot: “How dangerous.”
Georg’s resume and the opinion of the polls, which were started after the debate are the same: Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debate. The Republicans have now 18 days to find the turnaround for their candidate to have again the chance to win this election.
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