Some of the people...
Nov. 7th, 2008 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringOK, it was the end of a twelve hour shift at the end of a week of same and maybe I didn't express myself clearly.
I thank everyone for giving their opinion.
I agree with those who commentated, yes, if McCain had given better speeches, he might have won. That's the point. But that's not what the original poster was saying.
Here's my paraphrase, watering down the original poster:
...it's a good thing his past speeches weren't like that, otherwise he might have won.
She wasn't saying that if he'd given better speeches McCain might have won. That's just stating the obvious. She was saying, in strong terms, that it was a good thing he wasn't more attractive to the voters. Otherwise he might have won.
Well, just how do you judge a political candidate? How do you make your mind up who to vote for? Wouldn't the things a candidate says in public be an excellent way of deciding whether to vote for him or her? Isn't that precisely how Obama won his magnificent victory?
I think that the original poster was saying that the people can be fooled by what a candidate says, but she can't.
She's not an American, but she knows better than the American people which way they should vote. Regardless of what the candidates actually say to their fellow Americans.
Well, I disagree with that attitude, and I disagree strongly. The bottom line is that in America, after more than two centuries the strong and thriving ancestral home of modern democracy, the voters get a chance to vote any way they please for whatever private reasons they have.
I thank everyone for giving their opinion.
I agree with those who commentated, yes, if McCain had given better speeches, he might have won. That's the point. But that's not what the original poster was saying.
Here's my paraphrase, watering down the original poster:
...it's a good thing his past speeches weren't like that, otherwise he might have won.
She wasn't saying that if he'd given better speeches McCain might have won. That's just stating the obvious. She was saying, in strong terms, that it was a good thing he wasn't more attractive to the voters. Otherwise he might have won.
Well, just how do you judge a political candidate? How do you make your mind up who to vote for? Wouldn't the things a candidate says in public be an excellent way of deciding whether to vote for him or her? Isn't that precisely how Obama won his magnificent victory?
I think that the original poster was saying that the people can be fooled by what a candidate says, but she can't.
She's not an American, but she knows better than the American people which way they should vote. Regardless of what the candidates actually say to their fellow Americans.
Well, I disagree with that attitude, and I disagree strongly. The bottom line is that in America, after more than two centuries the strong and thriving ancestral home of modern democracy, the voters get a chance to vote any way they please for whatever private reasons they have.
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Date: 2008-11-07 09:25 am (UTC)I think that the original poster was saying that the people can be fooled by what a candidate says, but she can't.
What she said is what's written on her post. What you think she might be saying if you read between the lines is your own personal subjective interpretation. I read the same post and I didn't think she was saying that.
Neither did she say or imply that "she knows better than the American people which way they should vote".
In the end it all boils down to her having an opinion. Your previous post was all about defending everybody's right to have an opinion, no matter on what it was based, and on voting based on that opinion. Now all of a sudden you attack her opinion that Obama is a better choice and that McCain's campaign speeches were worse than his conceding speech.
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to fight anybody's battles on their behalf, and that person in particular is exceedingly well prepared to defend herself. It's just that I really, truly fail to see your logic in this subject. Oh well.