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Originally Posted by Sharmai  Actually the opposite is true... Where did you come to believe what you said above?
As far as I have ever heard it has always been said that McCain is a great and experienced debater but not a great motivating large crowd speaker.
I have heard that in small crowds and meetings McCain is EXCELLENT at connecting with the people but not so much on a larger stage.
At no point have i ever heard that McCain was a bad debater.. |
He was god-awful in the Republican primaries. I mean, near-incoherent awful. He would just smirk that arrogant little smirk of his, stutter and stumble across his words, and at times lose his train of thought mid-sentence. I'd also heard a lot of analysts (CNN, etc.) always talking about how he's very inarticulate when speaking in public. I'd heard a little bit about his supposed strength in "town hall" style settings -- something I'll admit I have very little idea about, but I'm guessing "town hall" is a euphemism for small crowd with no live coverage? Like I said, I don't know.
At any rate, everything I'd seen and heard of and about McCain leading up to these debates led me to believe he was a terrible speaker and a terrible debater. He surprised me a great deal in this last debate. I still think every single point he made was ridiculous, if not outright and objectively wrong. But he was much better at debating than I thought he'd be.
