Bill Press: The Grouch and the Gentleman

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-press/the-grouch-and-the-gentle_b_129924.html

The Grouch and the Gentleman
Bill Press


Two candidates walked on stage Saturday night. One of them walked off looking like the next President of the United States. And it wasn't John McCain.

American voters could not have been given a clearer choice. As this season's first presidential debate clearly demonstrated, John McCain is hot; Barack Obama is cool. John McCain shoots from the hip; Barack Obama speaks from facts and logic. John McCain represents the past; Barack Obama looks to the future.

Even their physical differences were striking. Obama is young, tall, thin, robust, and looked like he'd just come from working out in the gym, which he had. McCain is old, short, pasty, porked up from gobbling too many doughnuts on the campaign trail, and looked like he'd just walked off an airplane, which he had.

Perhaps the biggest difference we saw was that Obama came eager to debate, while McCain was clearly unhappy to be there. He never addressed Obama directly and never called him by his first name. In fact, he never even once looked at Obama.

Long-known for having the biggest ego in Congress (which is saying something!), McCain was obviously pissed at having to share the stage with a Senate rookie, and he let everybody know it. Seven or eight times, he testily dismissed Obama's comments with a condescending "Senator Obama just doesn't understand." While, twice, Obama had enough self-confidence to observe: "John McCain's right about that."

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In the end, McCain came across as just what he is: a senior Senator who's been around forever and been in the Congress so long he's locked in the past and incapable of taking the country in new direction. And Obama showed us who he is: a new face, a new leader with new energy, an agent of change, and ready and qualified to be president.

Not since Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy has there been a starker contrast between the two candidates on stage. Yet, even with his five o'clock shadow, Nixon looked better than McCain.

[jillan]

1. I love Bill Press! And once again he is spot on.

[1corona4u]

2. LOL, hysterical!! My favorite;

"Even their physical differences were striking. Obama is young, tall, thin, robust, and looked like he'd just come from working out in the gym, which he had. McCain is old, short, pasty, porked up from gobbling too many doughnuts on the campaign trail, and looked like he'd just walked off an airplane, which he had."



:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

3. "Nixon looked better than McCain."......

I think we have a winner, and it ain't john McCain! :rofl:

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Great article by Bill. I have to admit that I was more than a little miffed

with him during the primary season, but this article more than makes up for it.

[eshfemme]

5. Nice breakdown

And yes, I don't get why people are jumping on Obama for having the grace to say when he agrees because he also respectfully disagrees. Obama's keeping his promise of taking politics to a high level-- it's not his fucking fault that McCain's still stuck in the mud-slinging passe politics that got us into this mess.

[Cha]

6. I hearby forgive Bill Press

for anything I ever thought badly about him in the past.

This is TOO MUCH! Whoa!

"McCain is old, short, pasty, porked up from gobbling too many doughnuts on the campaign trail, and looked like he'd just walked off an airplane, which he had."

I guess that surrogate was right..mccain didn't prepare.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. K&R