Barack Obama Saddleback Presidential Forum pt.1

[Hope And Change]

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August 16, 2008 MSNBC

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[Mike Niendorff]

1. Thank you for posting this.

For all the noise I'd read about this, I expected Senator Obama to come off badly. The video showed exactly the opposite.

He hit his stride quickly, and clearly won over a large portion of the audience (much to the chagrin of the stone-faced hardliners). I was impressed at his ability to give thoughtful and reasonable responses that didn't paper over real disagreements, and I thought his avoidance of typical canned answers actually showcased his strength of judgment. He put thought into what he said, and it showed.

If this is a "bad" performance for Senator Obama, you guys have nothing to worry about.


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[eagertolearn]

4. I thought he did a fantastic job. McCain looked liked

he had rehearsed all of his responses and that he was coached on his style and personality. McCain came across very pleasant sometimes funny and was obviously told to tell a lot of stories about war. His answers were "non answers" for example for solving the education problems he said he liked competition and give everyone vouchers so they can make a choice increase the competition fire the bad teachers..... but no idea of how he would improve the education for everyone! Obama was very thoughtful and intelligent with is responses and very real. He seemed to understand the problems more and to see how hard it will be to accomplish everything. Obama had so much more substance in his response about who is considered wealthy where as McCain joked about it. But unfortunately people heard McCains key words "life begins at conception" and the stem cell research I don't think he really answered. I think the interviewer should of had McCain explain his "nonanswers" a little better but he let him get away with it.

[liberal1973]

2. I agree

Obama was great.

[rndmprsn]

3. K+R

thanks for posting, i missed this and it was joy to watch.

[bulloney]

5. I would have loved to have seen Bush in a similar forum and given the question on his failure.

He was given a question several years ago about any regrets he has on things he did and he couldn't come up with an answer.

That's how deranged he is. He thilnks he's always doing the right thing.

[ablueview]

6. The best thing McCain said: "I will be a Pro-Life President"

When he said he'd "I will be a Pro-Life President and this Presidency will have Pro-Life policies," it was the best thing he could have said to help Obama win.

According to Planned Parenthood, 49% of women currently backing McCain express pro-choice views and 36% of them say they are less likely to vote for McCain when told that he opposes Roe v. Wade.

Now McCain has unambiguously told them.

Watch him say say it and also discuss Supreme Court picks and condemn gay marriage.

[Kire]

7. the whole 49 minutes of it can be found, on Obama's official YouTube page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL7FRNDkELM

McCain didn't post his part on his YouTube channel.