| Impulsivity said: He has a sound point, that its more cost effective to be preemptive with health care, you didn't include the whole context but I still got the gist of the point he was making which is a correct point. Yes he jumbled his words in getting that thought out but that is a rarity. Also, at town hall meetings and in interviews he never has a TelePrompTer so the "obama lost without a TelePrompTer title" is just silly. Misspeaking happens to the best of us. Bill Clinton, one of the best public speakers of the last few decades, occasionally went off into tangents and spoke too long without enough clarity early in his campaign as well. There is a PROFOUND difference though between stumbling on your words regarding a correct thought and not understanding basic tenants of foreign policy. Obama had trouble expressing his idea in this context, but not because he did not understand what health insurance is. If you can find a tape of Obama misunderstanding important ideas vital to national security that is something else entirely. It is not speaking poorly that is at issue here, it is her dangerous lack of understanding. Like Bush she is an incurious zealot, she has the will to make decisions but not the wisdom to make correct decisions. Nothing is more dangerous then a headstrong fool in a position of power. It was quite clear listening to Sarah Palin that as soon as she was off the topics she had been coached on by her aides, most of which were veterans of Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaign, she had no idea what she was talking about. Her breadth of knowledge is non existent. If you listen to Obama answer questions off the cuff it is quite clear he has a strong understanding of a huge range of issues even when he has a hard time, on occasion, distilling those thoughts into short sound bites. |
http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/1102552,CST-EDT-hunt12.article
"It took first-term Sen. Barack Obama three tries to get it right. Headed for a vacation in Hawaii, the presumed Democratic candidate for commander in chief issued an even-handed statement, urging restraint by both sides. Later Friday, he again called for mutual restraint but blamed Russia for the fighting. The next day his language finally caught up with toughness of McCain's."
"Making matters worse, Obama's staff focused on a McCain aide who had served as a lobbyist for Georgia, charging it showed McCain was "ensconced in a lobbyist culture." Obama's campaign came off as injecting petty partisan politics into an international crisis. This was not a serious response on behalf a man who aspires to be the leader of the Free World. After all, what's so bad about representing a small former Soviet republic struggling to remake"
