Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
Did anyone else count the amount of times Obama said "senator mccain is absolutely right", or some other statement saying roughly the same thing? I lost count at 50. That is a useful tool when you use it sparingly, but use it so repetitively and it sounds like you're voting for him. Hell, I couldn't even say it that many times about McCain and I AM voting for him.
1 - Yes, even Democrats say they get aggravated with how "polite" Democratic candidates need to be, and how they always keep the gloves on. But the polls backfire on us big time when we act more like Republicans in campaigns.

2 - Agreeing with Senator McCain (this is a purely "campaign tactics" observation) probably doesn't win him any Republican votes, and probably doesn't cost him any Democratic votes, but it does resonate positively with the independents.

3 - I would prefer someone who can admit when the other party was correct on something, rather than someone who will bullheadedly disagree with anything coming out of the mouth of someone from the opposite party.

4 - Yes it did open Obama up to the repeatedly abused response from McCain that Obama "doesn't understand", trying to inflect inexperience or naivete on Obama. But the only people who will respond strongly to that are superficial people who think that McCain "seeming" more experienced makes up for the fact that, like all the other "experienced" people like Rumsfeldt, he has incredibly poor judgment and has been wrong on nearly every major call he's made about our foreign policy since 2000.

5 - Would rather have someone who can actually build on middle ground instead of someone who uses the word "bipartisan" 50 times in the debate but what that really means to him is being contentious and taking all the credit himself.