Tag: debates

Did McCain just try to compare Obama to Bush? Is he kidding?

My friend Jim Lukach (do I sound like McCain, my friends?) points out that McCain has yet to look at Obama — and the press has noticed, or at least James Fallows has.

Unless it happened when I glanced away, up until this moment, 77 minutes into the 90-minute debate, John McCain has not once looked at Obama — while listening to him, while addressing him, while disagreeing with him, while finding moments of accord.

This is distinctly strange — if anyone else notices. Obama is acting as if this is a conversation; McCain, as if he cannot acknowledge the other party in the discussion.

Can someone tell Obama that, just because there is some support for offshore drilling and there are campaign contributions out there for nukes, that we shouldn’t include them in an energy plan.

OK. They are both wrong about Russia and Georgia. They are both stuck in a Cold War mindset on this.

OK. Obama called McCain on the Iranian president. Good.