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Monday, April 21, 2008


Obama Ducks North Carolina Debate

Two mutually reinforcing theories on why Obama cancelled a debate next Sunday with Hillary Clinton: one, he is going to win North Carolina anyway, so why give the desperate Hillary a shot at him, and two, he is afraid of another dismal performance.

There is plausible deniability here, because normally you would expect Obama to turn down a debate when victory is a foregone conclusion, as it was last February when Obama refused a debate in Wisconsin.

Now that the focus is on Obama's debating skills or lack thereof however, it feels a bit different. Shouldn't Obama get back on that horse to prove that his poor performance in Pennsylvania was a fluke? Isn't he running a risk of confirming insinuations that he is indeed a wimp?

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't, because if he does debate Hillary, he is also running the risk of proving again that his only real skill is reading prepared text from a teleprompter.

Crossposted from Ken McCracken

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Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t, because if he does debate Hillary, he is also running the risk of proving again that his only real skill is reading prepared text from a teleprompter.

Up to this point the media has been in the tank for the Big O. But in the last debate he got a taste of what real candidates get treated like. He didn’t like it. So he’s going back to his canned speach in front of adoring minions.

Wing Chun Geologist on April 21, 2008 at 07:48 pm
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Turkey Chicken, Ducks Debate.
(Waiting for silly goose Hannitized to cry “Fowl”!)


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Proof on April 21, 2008 at 08:16 pm
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...because if he does debate Hillary, he is also running the risk of proving again that his only real skill is reading prepared text from a teleprompter.

Of all the presidential candidates, which one would you say is the best speaker?

This idea that Obama is not a good speaker, is a bit kooky.

Hannitized on April 22, 2008 at 12:51 am

Is it possible that North Carolin is one of those states where a substantial portion of the population is embittered by their economic circumstances and “clinging” to guns and God out of resentment against leftwing elitists?

Or may they’s jist not allowin’ no teleprompters in North Carolina.


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Bat One on April 22, 2008 at 06:37 am

This idea that Obama is not a good speaker, is a bit kooky.

So he is just a coward who won’t face Clinton in a debate?



Companies shouldn’t go to bed with the government because the government has herpes.  You can try your whole life but you’ll never get away from that one night.

dougee on April 22, 2008 at 06:59 am

Obama is an umm good umm speaker when he is ehh tethered to an umm teleprompter.

*written in the style of Obama’s speech when he is not in front of a teleprompter.

likwidshoe on April 22, 2008 at 07:04 am

Of all the presidential candidates, which one would you say is the best speaker?

Hillary is best when talking about policy.

McCain is best when answering the questions from the media.

Obama is best when giving a canned speach in front of people who think he’s the second comming.

Wing Chun Geologist on April 22, 2008 at 07:38 am
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We are asked to simultaneously believe that Obama is smart enough and perceptive enough to be president on the one hand, and on the other that Obama was completely ignorant of the political and social views of people he worked with and went to church with for years.  Both these things cannot be true.

poetryman69 on April 22, 2008 at 06:52 pm
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We are asked to simultaneously believe that Obama is smart enough and perceptive enough to be president on the one hand, and on the other that Obama was completely ignorant of the political and social views of people he worked with and went to church with for years

It’s a smart and perceptive kind of ignorance…


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Proof on April 22, 2008 at 07:23 pm
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Obama should debate.  He only debated Hillary 1 on 1 four times.  In not doing so he looks weak and cowardly.  I voted for Obama back in February when I thought he was offering a new kind of politics.  Over the last two months I have seen him engage in the same dirty tactics he once condemned.  I am disappointed in Obama because I thought he was about fighting the political machine, not running away from it.

i approve this message on April 28, 2008 at 03:02 am

I am disappointed in Obama because I thought he was about fighting the political machine

The guy is a Marxist which means that he is the political machine.

likwidshoe on April 28, 2008 at 03:19 am

likwid: Great point; to be more precise, he is a member of a political machine in the tradition of Saul Alinsky, a well-known Marxist organizer.


If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

robert108 on April 28, 2008 at 04:33 am
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