# Say something nice about the other candidate (US election) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401 "2008-10-31T10:25:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/21 "2008-10-31T16:26:11Z")
> [@Tracy\_Lord](#): > > 1. **Enough with the creepy comments about whether you would have sex with Sarah Palin**. Yeah, I don’t think something that would make a candidate scream in horror would count as “something nice” to say. Since Sarah Palin doesn’t want to have sex with Dopers, a Doper saying they’d have sex with her isn’t “nice.” ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/22 "2008-10-31T16:30:56Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I think this is what **Tracy** was talking about. Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/23 "2008-10-31T16:36:15Z")
1. Obama/Biden 2. McCain has been a great Senator and has (at least up until recently) been very concerned with reaching across the aisle and compromising for the good of the country. I think the 2000 McCain would have been a much better President than Bush. I’m not a big fan of his now, though. 3. She and her husband seem to have a very good relationship, and she is very driven and ambitious. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/24 "2008-10-31T16:36:33Z")
[quote=“Shodan, post:12, topic:470401”] [ol][li]McCain.[_]Obama means well, he is absolutely sincere, he is charismatic and an excellent speaker.[_]Ummm…Biden voted for the AUMF, and stated publicly that Saddam Hussein was a threat to our national security, and that there was no option except to remove him ([cite](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18381961/page/2)).[/ol][/li][/QUOTE] I’m always curious about ‘excellent speaker’ compliments. Would you say that Obama is smart? Voting Obama Thinks McCain would make as good a president as Obama would, probably. Palin seems fearless. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/25 "2008-10-31T16:41:57Z")
I’m voting for Obama. McCain served with honor and suffered quite a bit in that service. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/26 "2008-10-31T16:44:07Z")
1. Obama 2. No doubt about it, he made tremendous sacrifices for our country. And up until recently he was not afraid to go against the party line. 3. I admire how she balances being a governor and a mother of five. That is not easy. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/27 "2008-10-31T16:49:07Z")
1. I am honored to have the opportunity to vote **for** a candidate, for once, and I’m voting for Obama/Biden. 2. I think McCain is a good-hearted man and I like his sense of humor. 3. She’ll shake up the GOP a bit, and she lives far away in Alaska. ---
**Author:** ![Lili\_Von\_Shtupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@Lili\_Von\_Shtupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lili_Von_Shtupp)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/28 "2008-10-31T17:09:43Z")
1. Voting for Obama. 2. He’s a war hero and a true patriot. 3. She’s got great taste in shoes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/29 "2008-10-31T17:20:06Z")
1. Voting for McCain 2. Obama is very articulate 3. Biden is very likeable ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/30 "2008-10-31T17:31:16Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I’m always curious about ‘excellent speaker’ compliments. > > Would you say that Obama is smart? Heavens, yes, for many values of “smart”. I know it is a common insult to call some politician or other “stupid”, but I doubt anyone gets very far in public life without being smart in some sense - book smart, people smart, street smart, something. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/31 "2008-10-31T18:08:53Z")
1. Who are you voting/did you vote for? (If not a US citizen, who would you vote for if you could?) 2. What do you like about the other candidate for President? 3. [optional] What do you like about the other candidate for vice-president? 1. I am voting for Obama though I did vote McCain in the primary. 2. a. He is a smart and savy guy and has strong fiscal conservative roots. b. He served his country well in the military and Senate. c. He really has crossed party lines more often than most these days. d. He never use to kowtow to the religious right. e. The country and the world would have been far better off with McCain in 2000 than Bush or Gore in my opinion but sadly it did not work out. I think he was the right man for that time. 1. Sorry, I cannot think of one thing. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/32 "2008-10-31T18:11:26Z")
1. I’m voting for McCain. 2. Obama is a great speaker who has managed to get a great number of people excited about this election. 3. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/33 "2008-10-31T18:23:55Z")
1. Voted for Obama 2. McCain is very smart and has a good sense of humor, as demonstrated by his many appearances on Jon Stewart’s show. 3. She likes hockey. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/34 "2008-10-31T18:28:23Z")
1. Voting for Mike Gravel. 2. Barack Obama is passionate about his beliefs, and seems to have the greater good (as markedly opposed to the Greater Good) in mind. If I had to vote for one of the two major-party candidates – or, really, if Gravel were to drop dead before Tuesday – I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. 3. John McCain is fair-minded and open to alternate points of view; he does not simply toe the party line dutifully like many politicians. While his beliefs and mine are too unlike for me to _want_ him to be President, I will say with no sarcasm intended that we could do one hell of a lot worse. 4. Joe Biden is intelligent, charismatic and capable. In the position of Vice President, he would be an excellent statesman, and should the worst happen to Obama I’d feel comfortable with him in the Oval Office. 5. Sarah Palin is not afraid to speak her mind about her strongest beliefs and positions. WYSIWYG is a rare and desireable quality in politics, and it’s become clear that she possesses it in spades. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/35 "2008-10-31T18:46:58Z")
1. Obama/Biden 2. 2000 era McCain was a gutsy, innovative politician. 3. Coming up blank. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401/36 "2008-11-01T00:31:21Z")
1. McCain/Palin 2. I believe Obama means well. I can see how he is perceived as a strong leader. 3. Biden is competent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-something-nice-about-the-other-candidate-us-election/470401.md?page=1)