Meet John McCain's Debate Coaches
Much like great athletes, presidential candidates have coaches who help prepare them for big competitions– in this case, debates.
While Sen. Barack Obama is being coached this year by John Hinckley's defense attorney, Sen. John McCain went with the more Godly pick of Brett O'Donnell, who gained fame as a Jerry Falwell "Agent of Intolerance"…
McCain's chief debate coach is Brett O'Donnell, who molded [Rev. Jerry] Falwell's Liberty University debate team into a powerhouse national champion. O'Donnell, according to a March 2006 New York Times profile of Liberty's debate team, is "an intensely competitive man."…
Falwell chose O'Donnell to make his school's debate team the best in the country to produce "champions for Christ." He may not be turning McCain into a champion for Christ, but he will try to create a champion nevertheless, just as he did with President Bush during the 2004 presidential debates.
McCain also has a stand-in for Barack Obama to help him simulate real-life debate scenarios. And the man playing Obama?
Sit down, now; it's a shocker…
Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele!
I know; I'm stunned too. I was sure they'd go with the corpse of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Steele, despite having only won a single term on the underside of a governor's ticket, is clearly the most popular black Republican not to have played professional football. He gets paraded around like a P.T. Barnum freak any time the Republicans see a TV camera, so it only makes sense that he'd get to play Black Guy #1 in the McCain debate prep session.
And on that note, it's a good thing for McCain that Cynthia McKinney wasn't invited to the debate.
Condoleeza Rice has been preoccupied with Russian affairs all week.
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During the debate on Tuesday,I hope Senator McCain will ask Obama directly to look at the American people in the face, and tell them that he never heard Rev.Wright said bad things about America in the twenty years he has been his parishioner. On the abortion issue, please ask him how he would comfort a nurse holding a live baby who refuse to die from a partial abortion,who finally died due to his vote not to revive the helpless of the helpless etc,etc,etc.Thank you and God bless America!
That coach is like "No please, I can't take any credit. I mean it, please don't credit me".
Obama was holed up in a Florida hotel for days practicing…McCain just flew in and nailed it. Where a list of all the $$$ Obama spent on his PREP TEAM? I heard he had a McCain stand in that had to do facial expressions too…this is more how I see Denzel, I mean Obama….the actor….posturing…playing "as if".
Vote Lefty Johnson for president!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4eeUpQRD_Q
And who stood in for McCain as part of Obama's debate preparation?
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MALCOLM WILSON!!!
You should be mortified.
So, McCain's counterpart in the prep sessions is Dr. Phil in blackface? Intereting strategy…
In the middle of first debate prep, McCain quit & said "I'm not going to debate until economy fixed".