Thread: Why Obama shall win;

Holy crap. Don't you guys have presidential debates sometimes? No matter how good McCains policies might or might not be, unless he does some serious hardcore intensive practicing on public speaking, he will not survive any head-to-head debate and I will probably cringe in pain and not know whether to laugh or cry. If I was I him I'd cry myself to sleep just thinking about that event...

Originally Posted by Gwoger

But as i white male i can say the Mr. Obama will do much better than McCain becuz we spend 720 Million a day in a iraq if we no longer had that conflict on our hands, we could do so much more.. education would be Much better (especially without no child left behind) its simply the better choice.

The problem with our public education system is not lack of funding. It is lack of standards, which could be fixed by adding the element of competition. I used to be a private school teacher, and I saw how little people learned in the public schools around here when they transferred to my school. People would come out of public school algebra and not even be able to solve for x when 3x + 4 = 16. It was not just that they could not do it. They had no Earthly idea what it was. They would be in geometry and get to the simplest of algebra equations and act like they had never seen them in their lives. I would explain, "You want to get x by itself to see what it equals," and they would look at me like I was from Mars. Too many people around here graduate from public high schools literally unable to read. Literally illiterate. No Child Left Behind promotes that junk, and even demands it. We need to drop that policy, and we need to use at least a voucher system to start running the public schools like private schools. That will turn everything around completely. Simply throwing more money at the public education system has never made the problem budge even an inch.

Originally Posted by Korittke

Holy crap. Don't you guys have presidential debates sometimes? No matter how good McCains policies might or might not be, unless he does some serious hardcore intensive practicing on public speaking, he will not survive any head-to-head debate and I will probably cringe in pain and not know whether to laugh or cry. If I was I him I'd cry myself to sleep just thinking about that event...

That definitely is something to worry about. It blows my mind that the Republicans keep nominating people who trip all over their words during speeches. Bob Dole, George Bush Jr., and John McCain have all been serious liabilities because of their inabilities to speak, and every election there have been Republican candidates who can speak extremely well. The debates are incredibly important to how presidential elections turn out. I think it would be easy to tear Barack Obama to shreds over his (lack of) policy ideas, but it would take a good speaker to do that. Giuliani would eat Obama for lunch. But they nominate McCain? I don't get it. Hopefully McCain won't suck so bad if he is not reading a teleprompter. I think that was the biggest problem in some of those recent public appearances. I don't want Obama to win the election, but if he does, I am not going to feel sorry for the people who voted in the primaries for McCain.