I’ve been watching the debate…
And it’s over.
That fucking McCain is too much of a pussy to stand up and tell the truth with any sort of conviction. It’s painfully obvious that the VC took any nuts he had. Allow me to be the first to welcome the Terrorist into office.
If you’re white, and upper middle class, you should be very afraid.
Fuck you Obama.
Are you watching it on MSNBC?
The “debate” I’m watching shows a very challenging and engaged and combative McCain.
An Obama who acts like a child in class: “OOh! OOH! Pick Me, Pick Me. My turn to talk now!” or “I know what you asked, but here’s what I want to say”.
A a prospective combat leader, I have to know when to retire from the field, re-organize my people, and prepare another attack plan for combat another day. III
We’re at that point, brothers. The good news, if any, is that The ObamaMessiah won’t be able to get along with “his” Congress any better than Bush could, and add to that a severe Depression to deal with, and his first two years will be a failure.
We get the Congress back in 2010, then the White House in 2012, all with no bullets expended.
Our main problem won’t be Obama, it will be surviving the frigging Depression which we are less than a week away from. Might have to expend a bullet or two to get through THAT.
I apologize for straying off-topic…
What happened to the “Cheeseburger in Paradise” post?
I have wisely decided to ignore politics as much as possible this election season as a way to help curb my drinking.
Yeah Dick — same as Slash.
Am I right to suspect you weren’t satisfied? “Cheeseburger in Paradise†revealed a pleasing eloquence. Too revealing for you tough guy?
Slash, Pascal,
It wasn’t written well enough, nor did it convey a few thoughts I wanted to get across.
Thanks for the reply, Dick, I’m looking forward to the revised version.
I didn’t watch the debate because these things really drive me over the edge. Your analysis, though, reminds me that Republicans in the last twenty years have had quite a problem with telling it like it is.
Why cant an R be harsh to the opponent? Why can’t the candidate stand up, look the D in the eye, and say the obvious stuff:
“Tax cuts increase revenue.”
“Gun ownership is a constitutional right.”
“Your teacher/preacher/mentor/partner is obviously and vocally anti-American and that brings your character and motivations into question.”
“You, sir, are a liar.”
And so on.
The only debates ever worth watching were the ones where Reagan ate up Carter. Everything else is so rehearsed that animatronic robots are less herky jerky and stiff than debaters.
They’re more interested in not making a mistake than making a point, more in not losing than winning.
I wish there were no debates this time around. Who remembers anything from the primary debates? Did a debate help someone choose someone over another based on one? It just makes fans of either one more of a fan, and sways hardly anyone. Especially when talking head evaluation of a debate lasts 5 hours longer than the debate itself.
These aren’t real debates … they’re more like scripted infomercials designed to allow some idiot moderator to ask a few quasi-pertinent sounding questions that no one wants to hear the real answers to.
Better if each candidate had a couple minutes to tell us everything they thought was important about a random topic, allow rebuttal, allow cross-rebuttal … then move on.
And maybe a session where members of the opposing party’s Congressional delegation gets to ask questions of each candidate.
I want to see these guys really put to an intellectual test. I want to see them sweat blood. I want to see mis-statements, recovery, and killer points.
And I want to see a period where opposing voters have a chance to lay in to each one of them … not some 15 second abbreviated question cut short by some idiot news celebrity, but give Joe Six-pack a 5 minute diatribe against everything he thinks is wrong with Candidate X, and then give X one minute to answer the criticism.