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Hippiekinkster -> RE: The Great Debate Tonight!!!!! Hell yeah! (9/27/2008 7:41:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: subrob1967
Here's my take of the debate...
McCain....Elect me because what I plan to do, is based on what I've already done.
I have the resume, and experience, with the record to back it up.
Obama.....I will do this, I will do that, I will do the other, even thou I haven't done much of anything legislative, except take time off to run for higher office, in the last 8 years. Oh yeah, education is so important to me, I ran the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago, and we all know how much that improved Chicago schools.[8|]
How can anyone say Obama is articulate, with the amount of um's, ah's and er's he uses?
So you prefer glib over thoughtfulness? Or faulting a speaker because he has a slight stutter on occasion?
"Within-subject statistical modeling techniques were employed to investigate individual differences in the extent to which two possible indicators of processing time predicted changes in utterance complexity during spontaneous discourse for 10 children ages 7;1 to 10;1 with specific language impairments (SLI) who differed in receptive language abilities. The two indicators of processing time that were modeled were response latency and the use of a specific discourse marker (Verbal Pause) that provided children with additional time to respond. Longer response latencies were not a strong predictor of increased utterance length for any of the children. However, results indicated that children with better receptive skills used substantially more verbal pauses than children with both expressive and receptive deficits and that the use of these pauses was a strong predictor of increased utterance length for children with better comprehension skills."
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2780589
In other words, Obama is not only more receptive to a speaker, but also has greater comprehension. Both were evident; see how often Obama agreed with McSame (receptivity) and how many times McSame completely lost the plot (comprehension).
And McSame' bullshit name and place-dropping was a total turnoff for me. I've been to some interesting places myself. And just because I spent 3 days in Vienna doesn't mean I'm an expert at Austrian history and politics.
Foreign Policy "experience" is way down the list of skillsets which I feel important for a President. All the geography and such can be learned. Intelligence, thoughtfulness, clarity of thought; these cannot be learned, and McSame isn't even in the same league as Obama.
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