John McCain and Barack Obama: How They Speak to Voters

Eloquence

The ability to express ideas well and with eloquence should not be under rated in any sphere of life where the exchange of ideas is critical Communication skills are an essential role in international relations and every area of government. Barak Obama not only speaks carefully and with attention to language, his attitude is one of attentive respect and he speaks to his listeners, not at them, responding to their questions and comments appropriately. One of the most irritating aspects of listening to Bush or McCain or Palin is their tone of voice and the cadence as well as their inattention to the conventions of two way communication. They sounds like preachers making pronouncements, even in conversations with interviewers. Instead of a relaxed conversational tone appropriate to such interviews, they nearly shout slogans with a vehemence that is irritating and not responsive to the interviewer's style or content of his/her questions and comments. More telling than the average idealogue is able to comprehend,it seems.

Palin and McCain.....more of the SAME!

So much for "supply-side" economics! So much for the wonderful "free market"! What all that theory allowed is for the Wall Street sharks to get what they want for "free". THAT is what Reagan, Bush, Buckley, Friedman, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz and all these other "compassionate conservatives" have REALLY been all about. "Deregulation" and "privatization" have been their mantra. They have HATED the idea of "big government" when applied to governmental oversight of corporate and financial institutions, but they LOVE the "big government" when our tax dollars are used to subsidize corporate R&D or to give huge profits to "defense contractors". They HATED "big government" when it means helping common citizens with social programs that are desperately needed. THOSE programs are attacked as "entitlements". Welfare and Social Security are attacked! Unemployment insurance is attacked. Universal healthcare...the very IDEA of it...is attacked. THESE are all derided and labeled "entitlements". When Reagan and Bush instituted massive tax cuts for the very WEALTHIEST of our citizens, THAT policy was NEVER attacked as "entitlements". Tax cuts for the wealthy are always supported by these "compassionate conservatives" on the flimsy and transparent basis of "trickle-down" economics! Greenspan is a charlatan and a tool of the elite. Anyone who has ever undertaken a serious study of American history knows the record. Corporate elites have historically used all the considerable power at their disposal to prevent, thwart, erode, destroy, and reverse any attempt by the general public, through our elected officials, to regulate business activities in such a way as to ensure public safety and welfare.

Karl Rove, Richard Perle, David Addington, Douglas Feith, and all the rest of these neoconservative, shock-troop apologists for corporate thievery have succeeded in forging an unholy alliance with the very conservative Christian evangelical population amongst our citizenry. The Bush Administration has shamelessly degraded our entire quality of life, justifying all manner of destruction to our Constitution, our infrastructure, our citizens' food supply, the safety of our communities, our military, and our very lives. They have done all this while preaching "faith-based initiatives" and "family values"!

Greenspan has been an integral power player in the entire affair. He has preached deregulation for decades! He pretends now to be surprised and shocked that the banks and mortgage lenders did not do a more conscientious job of "self-regulation". This stance by Mr. Greenspan is an INSULT to our intelligence! Does he REALLY expect us to believe that he did not know what would happen if the wolf were put in charge of watching the henhouse? Business has NEVER willingly and effectively regulated itself in the public interest. NEVER! Business HATES the very IDEA of regulation. What part of that equation does Greenspan not understand? The common citizen understands that you don’t put the wolf in charge of the henhouse.

The “economists”, especially Milton Friedman and his disciples, that have spouted all this rhetoric about free markets and supply-side dynamics and privatization have ALL been hoodwinking the American people for decades! A RESPONSIBLE First World society would have a RESPONSIBLE public sector that would RESPONSIBLY manage the business cycle in a way that would bring the greatest benefit to the society as a whole. American government has ALWAYS been hamstrung by our corporate elites, EVEN during FDR’s Administrations. At LEAST during the New Deal SOME sector of the elites acknowledged their responsibilities to society in general. This neoconservative onslaught under Reagan, Bush, McCain, Palin et al has done everything in its power to reverse whatever safeguards were put in place to protect the common citizen! They have pretty much succeeded in trashing our nation!

Tales of Brave Ulysees

The fact that one Media Star( Oprah )can pick a candidate to sell to the upper middle class with the masses then in tow causes any one left with a brain to question motive. Whether a candidate is a well practiced orator should not have that much sway unless something more sinister i.e Orwellian erodes the last defense against the State ,the concept of the INDIVIDUAL.

Tales of Brave Ulysees

The fact that one Media Star( Oprah )can pick a candidate to sell to the upper& middle class with the masses then in tow causes any one left with a brain to question motive. Whether a candidate is a well practiced orator should not have that much sway unless something more sinister i.e Orwellian erodes the last defense against the State ,the concept of the INDIVIDUAL.

Leadership

Being a great leader is more that being a great speaker. Truthfulness is high on the list. I don't think that Obama is very high on that list. I hope I am wrong if Obama is elected. Again don't think so. I see a socialist nation with lowering world leadership. If a crisis comes (as per Biden) to Obama his smouth speach will will not cutit and I say what ever god you hold help!

Read the constitution?

If Sarah Palin doesn't know the constitution, what makes you think these idiots would?

It really upsets me when I see stupid comments that are not true.

The Republicans has the House and the Senate for how many years? Please go back and check your records. You are going to blame the democrats for the failure of the Republican Party?

CAPITALISM

IS AMERICAN CAPITALISM IS ABOUT TO CHANGE?

Don't let politicians, particularly the next President, or Congress, implement legislation that will deconstruct the system at the core of American society.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/10/capitalism-political-punching-bag.html

Pasthetic Strategy

Now that McCain/Palin have successfully exposed themselves as having NO program, NO ideas of how to move our nation FORWARD....well, they just fall back on that tired, old, shop-worn, sick, empty-minded "tactic" of calling their opponent a "socialist". Now THERE'S a word that will REALLY scare the devil out of all the people who have decided long ago to vote for McCain/Bush already. I sincerely DOUBT that this 3rd-grade tactic of name-calling will dissuade any genuinely THINKING citizen from voting for OBAMA. This is the BEST startegy that the McCain/Palin campaign can come up with to try to counter Obama's far more intelligent and obviously far better informed leadership. If campaign strategy is any indication of leadership qualities, I shudder to imagine McCain/Palin at the head of our nation at a time when we desperately NEED real STATESMANSHIP!

Obama/Bill an Hiliary

Speechmaking, did we not go go down this same road 16 years ago an how about 2 years ago. The democrates talk and never produce [Bill/Hiliary] it has been said that words can't hurt but, but if you take a look back a few years [2] when the democrates took the majority of congress our country took a turn for the worse an who was at the helm steering the drive none other than Bill an Hiliary. Thanks.J

HATE and FEAR and IGNORANCE. . . .

Boy, . . your boy Rush deserves five Gold Stars.

Relax everybody, . . Barack doesn't hate you, even if you hate him. The USA is going to be fine, . . in fact it's going to be better.

In the meantime . . read the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address . . and get an idea of what this country should be about.