Obama’s death debate

Barack Obama might have rebuffed McCain’s call to delay Friday’s debate but, really, he should be glad he might not have to take the stage.

After spending all of May, June and July dodging John McCain’s challenge of town-hall debates, Obama would have had to face all his demons at the debate in Oxford, Miss.
Obama has been all over the place on every issue so far ranging from abortion (It’s above his pay grade)  to the Bush tax cuts (He won’t rescind them anymore) , from the unity of Jerualem (“bad word choice”)  to gun rights and many more.

He isn’t a very good speaker either.

Transcribing his words is hard because there are so many um’s, uh’s and long pauses, but here’s one attempt at what he was trying to say when he was explaining his health care plan:

“What they’ll say is, well it will cost too much money. It would cost about, it, it, it would cost about the same as what we would spend ... it ... o-over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would cost us ... it, it. It-it would cost us about the same as it would cost for about, hold on one second, I can’t hear myself.”

Obama is a hybrid of John Kerry and George Bush: no opinions and no speaking ability.

So far he has run away from the issues, campaigning in the “57 states” and challenging McCain on his ability to send e-mails.

Whenever McCain gets “cynical and divisive,” and forces Obama off topic, Obama has given a speech about tearing down walls or building bridges.

Tonight, he couldn’t have hidden anymore. But he wants to debate, right?

In May, he expressed his desire to discuss foreign policy with McCain, saying “that is a conversation I am happy to have.”

I’m sure debating McCain on foreign policy will be a handful for Obama.

On his field trip to the Middle East earlier this year, Obama said he’ll still be against the surge, even knowing that, according to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, it reduced violence in Iraq by 80 percent.

Expect that issue to come up in the debate, whenever it occurs, and also expect his support for meeting dictators without preconditions to come up often.

At the Cleveland State debate on February 26, Obama said that if al-Qaida was in Iraq, he would take action, before saying the next day that he knew al-Qaida was in Iraq.

Expect that whenever McCain brings up any of those issues, Obama will accuse him of bringing up “distractions,” much as he did in many of his debates against Hillary Clinton whenever she brought up a question he didn’t want to answer.

Obama will have a tough time during the next month trying to get through three debates, hoping the public is distracted during all of them.

My advice to Obama: Take it easy; you’ll have another chance in 2020 when Hillary’s eight years are over.