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| Obama has demonstrated a solid temperament ArgumentSoutien1 #7006 Obama's performance during the election campaign has demonstrated a cool and collected temperament befitting of a President. | |
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En citant: Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Cité par: David Price 4:28 PM 6 October 2008 GMT
Citerank: (4) 6786Sarah Palin is not qualified to be PresidentSarah Palin is not qualified to be President.1198CE71, 6977McCain's temperament is questionableJohn McCain's decisions often seem erratic; as if he inclined to be too quick to make decisions from the gut rather than waiting to analyse the issues in full detail.13EF597B, 6980Obama has a first class intellectBarack Obama has a first class intellect — he is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues.1198CE71, 7007Suspending campaign during financial crisis backfiredMcCain's decision to suspend his campaign during the financial crisis backfired when ultimately he showed up at the debate regardless with the financial crisis still unresolved.1198CE71
URL: | Extrait -http://www.washingtonp..."[McCain's] ...frenetic improvisation has perversely (for him) framed the rookie challenger favorably as calm, steady and cool.
In the primary campaign, Obama was cool as in hip. Now Obama is cool as in collected. He has the discipline to let slow and steady carry him to victory. He has not at all distinguished himself in this economic crisis -- nor, one might add, in any other during his national career -- but detachment has served him well. He understands that this election, like the election of 1980, demands only one thing of the challenger: Make yourself acceptable. Once Ronald Reagan convinced America that he was not menacing, he won in a landslide. If Obama convinces the electorate that he is not too exotic or green or unprepared, he wins as well.
When after the Republican convention Obama's poll numbers momentarily slipped behind McCain's, panicked Democrats urged him to get mad. He did precisely the opposite. He got calm. He repositioned himself as ordinary, becoming the earnest factory-floor, coffee-shop, union-hall candidate.
In doing so, he continues his clever convention-speech pivot from primary to general election. In a crowded primary field in which he was the newcomer and the stranger, he rose above the crowd on pure special effects: dazzling rhetoric, natural charisma, and a magic carpet ride of transcendence and hope... He's been moderate in policy and temper ever since. His one goal: Pass the Reagan '80 threshold. Be acceptable, be cool, be reassuring.
Part of reassurance is intellectual. Like Palin, he's a rookie, but in his 19 months on the national stage he has achieved fluency in areas in which he has no experience. In the foreign policy debate with McCain, as in his July news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama held his own -- fluid, familiar and therefore plausibly presidential.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president." |
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En citant: Washington Post
Cité par: David Price 4:17 PM 4 November 2008 GMT
Citerank: (25) 5577Barack ObamaThe Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama should be elected President in November 2008.959C6EF, 5577Barack ObamaThe Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama should be elected President in November 2008.959C6EF, 5578John McCainThe Republican Party nominee John McCain should be elected President in November 2008.959C6EF, 5578John McCainThe Republican Party nominee John McCain should be elected President in November 2008.959C6EF, 5578John McCainThe Republican Party nominee John McCain should be elected President in November 2008.959C6EF, 5578John McCainThe Republican Party nominee John McCain should be elected President in November 2008.959C6EF, 6962Track record of principled bipartisanshipOver the years, John McCain has been a force for principle and bipartisanship.1198CE71, 6962Track record of principled bipartisanshipOver the years, John McCain has been a force for principle and bipartisanship.1198CE71, 6962Track record of principled bipartisanshipOver the years, John McCain has been a force for principle and bipartisanship.1198CE71, 6970A chief proponent of the surge in IraqJohn McCain was a chief proponent of the surge in Iraq, which appears to have contributed significantly to the improved conditions in Iraq.1198CE71, 6977McCain's temperament is questionableJohn McCain's decisions often seem erratic; as if he inclined to be too quick to make decisions from the gut rather than waiting to analyse the issues in full detail.13EF597B, 6978McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his VP running mateJohn McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as vice-presidential running mate has raised questions about his political judgment.1198CE71, 6980Obama has a first class intellectBarack Obama has a first class intellect — he is a man of supple intelligence, with a nuanced grasp of complex issues.1198CE71, 6981Obama would help mend US international relationsBarack Obama would help mend US international relations.1198CE71, 6981Obama would help mend US international relationsBarack Obama would help mend US international relations.1198CE71, 6981Obama would help mend US international relationsBarack Obama would help mend US international relations.1198CE71, 6981Obama would help mend US international relationsBarack Obama would help mend US international relations.1198CE71, 6985Strong suporter of health care reformBarack Obama is a strong supporter of health care reform.1198CE71, 6985Strong suporter of health care reformBarack Obama is a strong supporter of health care reform.1198CE71, 6999Obama demonstrated bi-partisan credentialsBarack Obama has demonstrated the ability to engender bi-partisan cooperation, and shown evident skill at conciliation and consensus-building.1198CE71, 7003McCain will continue failed Bush Administration policiesJohn McCain's presidency represents continuity with many of the failed policies and and much of the failed rhetoric of the Bush Administration.13EF597B, 7477Life experiences have not prepared Obama for PresidencyThroughout his adult life, Obama has sat at a law-professor's desk or a committee table. Never has the mantle of responsibility weighed on his shoulders alone. He has never run a city, a business or even a government agency.1198CE71, 7492Help to restore political balance on the Supreme CourtAn Obama victory will help to restore poltical balance to a Supreme Court.1198CE71, 7492Help to restore political balance on the Supreme CourtAn Obama victory will help to restore poltical balance to a Supreme Court.1198CE71, 7495Obama's Iraq withdrawal timetable is imprudent and dangerousObama's plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq in 16 months is reckless.13EF597B URL:
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