Mark Naymik: Who’d offer beer, who’s the smarty pants - McCain or Obama?

I lambasted Mark Naymik’s Who Offers You A Beer litmus test for the Plain Dealer editorial board’s nod when it was choosing between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential primary nominee contest.

Well, I just read his column that lauds John McCain’s performance at the NAACP convention last week in Cincinnati:

Republican John McCain went head to head with Democrat Barack Obama last week at the NAACP national convention in Cincinnati.

The two presidential candidates each delivered a speech to the nation’s largest civil rights organization. And it was no contest.

McCain was the clear winner.

(Think diving, not boxing.)

So who did you think would be the one who would offer you a beer, Mark - McCain or Obama?

Or would you rather stick with the smarty-pants analogy (though you gave Obama the beer nod before, clearly, compared to McCain, Barack would be the smarty pants)? We need to stick with the same metrics, don’t you think?

Don’t forget - more people in bars prefer Obama:

In response to the question, “Which candidate would you most like to have a beer with?”, a full 29% chose Obama, while 22% picked Clinton and 20% named John McCain.

Midwesterners voted Obama as their guy to imbibe with–31.2%–while Clinton was most likely to be offered a barstool in the Southwest–24%. McCain, meanwhile, was the top choice in the Southeast–23%.

Me? I just want Tommy Lee Jones to zap me with one of those devices from Men in Black - so I can forget all of this when it’s over.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:15 pm July 22nd, 2008 in John McCain, Debates, Predictions, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Media, Ohio, Elections, Politics

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5 Responses to “Mark Naymik: Who’d offer beer, who’s the smarty pants - McCain or Obama?”

1 lilatovcocktail on July 22nd, 2008 3:51 pm

It’s such a relief to know your local newspaper’s analyses and endorsements are the result of sincere consideration and diligent investigation, isn’t it?
2 oengus on July 22nd, 2008 7:41 pm

“But we also have to demand more from ourselves,” he said. “Now, I know there’s some who’ve been saying I’ve been too tough talking about responsibility. But here at the NAACP, I’m here to report I’m not going to stop talking about it. Because … no matter how many 10-point plans we propose, or how many government programs we launch — none of it will make any difference if we don’t seize more responsibility in our own lives.”

I think that’s a winning statement,

What gets me are these people that live in isolation, I am so tried of watching African Americans struggle. Especially those that have achieved a level of success in their lives, struggling with the stigmas.

Its was decades ago that many of us realized that opportunity benefits everyone. People learn by example, not what they see or hear in the media or from politicians, they learn from encounters in the real world. Everybody needs to try harder and government really needs to make the measures of success more real. Life is game lets play by the rules, the rules need to be clear.

The NAACP really needs to get going already, its not about civil rights as so much about getting into the game, and many African Americans are not escaping the poverty that surrounds them, they in many cases simply accept it. Perhaps they should be doing more at the community level and not so much on the national stage. Perhaps they could get involved in issue that concern everyone and not just those that only concern civil rights attorneys?

“The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination.”

That’s outdated, in fact there charter is devoid of self accountability it is devoid of recognizing achievements and or conjuring more, it assume that all the African American are not succeeding because of discriminations, not all are. If you are not being the best you can be, then how does the discrimination end? People are not all racial fools, many can see the sincere effort and the lacking of one.
3 Jill Miller Zimon on July 24th, 2008 5:06 pm

Lilatov wrote, “…the result of sincere consideration and diligent investigation” - couldn’t have said it better myself.
4 Jill Miller Zimon on July 24th, 2008 5:08 pm

Oengus - interesting. Do you read blogs by people of color? I hope so - but if you don’t, I would love to recommend a few to you - I read one entry today on one I read regularly and it echoed some of what you wrote.
5 joe on July 26th, 2008 8:48 am

opportunity benefits everyone eh? are you saying if they have the opportunity to steal your lawnmower it will benefit their ability to get drunk, smoke crack and avoid working and it will benefit you also as it will provide you with an additional opportunity to shop for a new mower and teach you of the pitfalls of embracing diversity. very interesting point of view, oengus.