At the end, McCain came right out and said Obama doesn't have the experience and judgment to be president. Obama weirdly responded with a riff about his dad being from Kenya and the need for more education spending. This could well be interpreted as weakness.Så skrev den konservative kolumnisten Rich Lowry i gårdagens New York Post. (Rubriken handlade för övrigt om att John McCain "comes out victorious" efter debatten, det vill säga "segerrik" – i sig ett grovt mått av spinning, förstås.)
Obamas "riff" handlade förvisso om hans kenyanske far. Men sammanhanget var att han som president skulle vilja återupprätta det goda anseende och den lyskraft som USA hade för många i världen på 60-talet, när hans pappa sökte sig till amerikanska universitet för att studera. Med Lowrys konservativa spinning låter det ju istället som att Obama stod och svamlade om varifrån hans pappa kommer.
Här finns hela stycket:
Well, let me just make a closing point. You know, my father came from Kenya. That's where I get my name.Visst blir det lite missvisande att påstå att Obama yrat om att hans far är från Kenya, när hans poäng var att han vill återupprätta USA:s anseende i världen?
And in the '60s, he wrote letter after letter to come to college here in the United States because the notion was that there was no other country on Earth where you could make it if you tried. The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world.
I don't think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same.
And part of what we need to do, what the next president has to do -- and this is part of our judgment, this is part of how we're going to keep America safe -- is to -- to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that -- that relate to how ordinary people are able to live out their dreams.
And that is something that I'm going to be committed to as president of the United States.
Jag har hämtat detta utdrag från Washington Posts transkript, på undersajten "Debate Decoder". Rekommenderas starkt för alla som är specialintresserade av amerikansk politik! Här finns hela debatten, dels som video, dels transkriberad med kommentarer och faktagranskning i marginalen. Mycket bra!
Uppdatering: Kanske hade herr Lowry bara knäck i lurarna. Det tycks i alla fall New York Times' kolumnist Maureen Dowd – knappast en republikansk snurrmästare – ha haft. Hon skrev idag:
Even when McCain sneered, “I don’t need any on-the-job training, I’m ready to go at it right now,” Obama didn’t directly respond, but veered off into a story about his father being from Kenya and how he got his name. (Thanks, Barack, we got that from your book. It’s great for a memoir, but not a debate.)/Gunilla
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