BINGO!!jimlongley wrote:Comfortable with Palin (not Palen) as President? Why not? An obscure administrator, outdoors person, with a young family, little known outside the state that the person served as Governor of, suddenly becomes President of the US? Whoops, we're talking about Teddy Roosevelt here.
That being said, I agree that McCain lost the debate. I don't think he lost on substance. I think he lost on charisma. Charisma shouldn't matter in an executive because a charismatic executive can convince a lot of people to head down a wrong path. Obama, love him or hate him, is very charismatic. The biggest danger in him is not just that his dead wrong on just about every issue, but that he is so charismatic that he can convince people that he knows what he's talking about. I am convinced that people don't really understand what he's saying (because they are often intellectually lazy), but that his voice and mannerism projects such conceeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrn and syyyyyyyyyyympathy and clear-eyed hooooooooooooooonesty that his listeners are seduced into believing that he knows what he's talking about. And they don't have to understand it. They only have to believe that HE understands it all, so they will trust him to do their thinking for them.
He's like the Anti-Christ.