McCain

[low_delta]

He said he was going to step up the attacks. The reason for that is because he ran out of his own talking points. Since day one, he seldom talks about what he's going to do. It's always about what needs to be done. "We've got to improve the education system." Or maybe "we're going to fix the education system." But Obama actually says how he plans to do it. His plans may not be the best, but at least he has some. Since McCain hasn't been very forthcoming on his plans, I can only assume he doesn't have any. Maybe he's going to rely on whatever Cabinet his party provides. I'd rather have a president who starts work on day one.

Obviously, he doesn't want to be dwelling on his lack of plans, so he attacks Obama whenever possible. I expect to see a lot of that in the debate.

EDIT: Not so bad on the attacks. They both made them, and McCain more of them, but it wasn't as nasty as I expected. One of the commentators afterwards said he expected more from McCain, but the other said that attacking isn't a very productive style in a town hall-style forum. Not only that, but maybe he's realizing the nastiness isn't winning him many votes from the undecided. We'll see what happens in the next week or two. And McCain has gotten better in laying out his actual plans.

Comments

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

agreed fully.

ANYone/product that relies on negative marketing .. IE attack mode I assume can't support their policies/product with positives.

Enjoy the debates.. I am watching football.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

He turned out not to be as nasty as I expected. Still some attacks, and the same lies he keeps telling, but more civil than I expected.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

My daughter said the same thing. Without prompting she said basically the same thing you did, "he keeps saying things need to happen, but not how to do it". She called four times during the debate. :/

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I give mccain a little slack on not giving program details because I know it's hard to do that in two minutes or less, etc.

I didn't expect him to go too nasty, because it's a bad strategy for the candidate him/herself to do that. it gets people feeling negatively about the candidate if they say a lot of mean things. That's why traditionally the VP is the "attack dog," not to mention all the third party groups.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

it's hard to do that in two minutes or less

I agree, and I think he did okay on the details in this debate. But until now, he never seemed to give many details, while Obama usually does.