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QUICK & DIRTY DEBATE REACTIONS
Things I don't understand:
I don't understand why McCain sneered all night.
I don't understand why McCain never looked Obama in the eye if he's a macho street fighter. Is he afraid of the handsome, skinny guy with the big ears? Of course, he is: bullies are always cowards beneath the bravado.
I don't understand why McCain was so condescending and patronizing. Independent voters hate that.
I don't understand why McCain didn't pull out ball bearings and roll them in his hand, Captain Queeg style. It would have looked better than hunching over and digging his fingernails into the podium.
I don't understand why the MSM used to get the vapors over Senator Walnuts. I'm glad they're no longer going steady. I hope Walnuts returned the ring...
I don't understand why Tweety and I are suddenly in sync: he made a Captain Queeg reference and compared the election to 1980 as I am wont to do. Am I suddenly a cab driver from Detroit? I don't understand.
I don't understand why McCain thinks that listing all the leaders he's met and places he's been makes him better than mere mortals. It makes him sound like Dr. Seuss' evil and terminally grumpy twin.
Finally, I don't understand why McCain thinks that Obama doesn't understand when he obviously does.
The Bottom Line: The debate was NOT a game changer, which was good news for Barack Obama. I'd give him the edge: if the American people wanted a sneering prick as President, Rudy Giuliani would have been on stage tonight.
One thing I *do* understand is that Clancy Dubos was da winnah on the politics show that aired on WWL-TV before the debate. He was clear, concise and downright irreverent. I'm not sure about his tie but, hey, nobody's perfect. I also enjoyed seeing Ed Renwick again. I've squeezed a few tomatoes with him at Langenstein's over the years. And for the pervs among my readers: I mean actual tomatoes, not the kind who perform lap dances for Derrick Shepherd. But now that I think of it tomatoes *were* once called love appples, which is something else I don't understand.
My favorite line in the debate was where John McCain said, "My friends, I
have been to Puerto Rico and Cuba. And I want to tell you that now that we
will succeed and our troops will come home, and not in defeat, that we will
see stable allies in the region and fledgling democracies.
As McKinley rears his head. Oops that was Palin on Putin...
"My friends"! One of the drinking game phrases of the night!
I don't think Obama has ever really learned why he has so many precociously
stupid but enthusiastic supporters. People are waiting for someone to
challenge these global imperialists and their bloody
wars-for-the-profit-of-the-few. If Obama would articulate this... give
words to the collective dissatisfaction, he would knock McCain right on his
ass. But instead, Obama is running the Kerry strategy; arguing that he is
a shrewder manager of the bloody empire instead of taking it on. In short,
he's NOT THE CHANGE HIS SUPPORTERS BELIEVE IN.