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Originally Posted by loquitur
considering how junior Obama was, I don't find it surprising that he didn't attract a lot of donations at the outset. I'll be more interested to see whether he sticks with his pledge to stay with public financing for the general election.
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As long as he is ahead in the polls.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Ustwo, how about he finished at the bottom of his class at Anapolis, was not thought of particularly highly by his classmates and only graduated at all by the skin of his teeth because of disciplinary issues.
He's got the same problem that Wesley Clark did back in '04 - his classmates and those in the military that he worked with directly don't really hold him in very high regard.
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Were you happy with the 'Swiftboating' of Kerry?
Just saying, and yes it was your attack on his war record I was referring to.
I don't think of McCain as a war hero myself, I think hero has been far overused these days by a media trying to overcompensate for how Vietnam was handled. He did serve his country honorably, was almost killed twice, and was a POW under very difficult conditions, and for that I can salute his service, but a hero has to DO something besides survive.
Bob Dole on the other hand is a true hero, and he never promoted it in his campaign, in fact the first time I heard anything about his record was after the election.
I really don't see McCain winning this election unless Obama stops talking about change and starts talking about how he plans to pay for it, or just how many 'working families' such as my own will not be 'working families' according to his plan, and I don't think Obama is that stupid, so its kinda moot anyways.