Post by nolasim on Oct 10, 2008 18:32:25 GMT -6
Kudos and credit to John McCain for calming the increasing anger at his rallies that was reaching an intensity that was getting scary. He praised Obama as a "wonderful American that I have tremendous respect for whom I just happen to disagree with." When a woman at the rally took the microphone and said, "I don't like Obama because he is an Arab," McCain took the microphone back and shook his head, saying "No.....he's a good man." Again, credit where it's due. He showed a tremendous amount of class.
Many of you here on the McCain Forum are becoming despondent, even to the point of giving up. You are already conceding the election to Obama.
Your gloom is unwarranted. Obama is ahead only by 7 points in most polls, and as the election draws nearer, that gap will only narrow. The race issue will indeed become a factor once people enter the privacy of that voting booth; this is an issue that even David Gergen agreed with. We don't like to acknowledge it, but for most of us, deep down in places we don't like to admit, we all have our little prejudices. It's the first time in American history that a black candidate from one of the two major parties is running for President, and I'm telling you that the polls are not taking this into account. In no way is this election over.
That said, I do believe that Obama has the vision to lead us out of our economic woes and into foreign policies that work. I haven't seen such a crisis of confidence in the Presidency since Tricky Dick was in office. We need a ray of sunshine again, and Obama is the man to do it.
(The filtering changed Tricky's name to "thingy" instead of his real first name. Just to let you know. ;D )
Many of you here on the McCain Forum are becoming despondent, even to the point of giving up. You are already conceding the election to Obama.
Your gloom is unwarranted. Obama is ahead only by 7 points in most polls, and as the election draws nearer, that gap will only narrow. The race issue will indeed become a factor once people enter the privacy of that voting booth; this is an issue that even David Gergen agreed with. We don't like to acknowledge it, but for most of us, deep down in places we don't like to admit, we all have our little prejudices. It's the first time in American history that a black candidate from one of the two major parties is running for President, and I'm telling you that the polls are not taking this into account. In no way is this election over.
That said, I do believe that Obama has the vision to lead us out of our economic woes and into foreign policies that work. I haven't seen such a crisis of confidence in the Presidency since Tricky Dick was in office. We need a ray of sunshine again, and Obama is the man to do it.
(The filtering changed Tricky's name to "thingy" instead of his real first name. Just to let you know. ;D )
;D He just can't stay out of it at all!!! 
