Reply #8: "John McCain secures presidential debate advantages" [View All]

[AzNick]

Or ... did he?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/3042964/John-McCain-secures-presidential-debate-advantages.html

I like to read the foreign press, because they usually take a truly independent approach to our issues.

How is it a victory for McCain to debate Obama in the format that he thinks fits him best?

We know Obama has a tendency of getting uneasy with hard, unexpected questions, which is the mark of a younger politician, but one thing we know from McCain is that he has a short fuse and could show a side of himself that people are not always aware of. And he's shown several times these last weeks that he could not answer certain questions, had a tendancy to be unprepared, and it shows even more since he ran out of POW wildcards.

Also, Obama is going to be preparing himself for a week and my guess is that he knows he needs to meet this challenge.

In my own personal dictionary, at the word "ambitious", you see a photo Obama.

You also see Napoleon, who knew how to make his enemies over confident, and let them take the offensive and then turn it around with something completely out of the ordinary.

I know most of you are not militarists and usually hate talking about war and strategy, but this is a war.

You need to know your opponent's strength and weaknesses and moreover you need to respect him. And this is where McCain is at a disadvantage.