If you’re like me: you’re not an undecided voter. You’ve just decided that either way this election goes, we’re likely screwed. In which case, you probably watched the debates to determine just how screwed you are going to be. Or not. It’s Friday. I realize some of you people have better things to do than watch Presidential Debates on Friday.
I’m not one of you.
So, if you missed it, let me fill you in.
McCain’s campaign called McCain the winner. Republicans will be smug about this and unanimously agree that yes, McCain was the clear victor. The Obama camp said Obama won: the Democrats will agree and chuckle at the the Republicans, who are too ignorant to realize Obama pwned McCain.
There was a lack of discussion on the bailout plan. Jim Lehrer kept trying to pin both candidates down on how the current financial crisis and the solution might affect their administration. Both wore blank looks, batted their eyelashes and pretended not to fully understand the question – yeah, they pulled a Palin.
Obama seemed more at ease and, as always, eloquent. Several times, he picked up the Middle Class and b*itch-slapped McCain and the whole Republican party with it. McCain on the Economy… not so great.
McCain did, however, demonstrate his vast superiority on foreign policy issues by being able to correctly pronounce the names of foreign leaders past and present – particularly those with lots of vowels. He also kept saying of his opponent “He Doesn’t Get It.” He repeated this so often I’m thinking it had to be intentional. Likewise, McCain attempted to hammer home the point that Obama is as “just as much a part of the Washington culture” as anyone else by pointing out (several times) he’s requested tons of earmarks.
Overall though, each candidate did well in certain areas – which ultimately means in a “Foreign Policy” debate that McCain should have dominated, Obama held his own. I have a feeling he will get fact-checked on the Kissinger thing though – and I must say, I did not like his parting shot:
“And in the ’60s, he wrote letter after letter to come to college here in the United States because the notion was that there was no other country on Earth where you could make it if you tried. The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world. I don’t think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same.”
In my opinion, he should not have ended with a negative statement about the country. This left even me momentarily flabbergasted and mildly offended. I’ve since moved beyond being mildly offended to mostly just dreading what Bill Hobbs will do with such a statement on his Windows Movie Maker.
So – let’s give it a few days. The VP debates are next Thursday. If Palin doesn’t blow the whole McCain campaign out of the water by doing something crazy… you know like talking: then, we shall see how it goes from there.
But for now: I’m still in that pool of voters most likely to end up living in Mexico, drinking cheap beer, staring at pictures of Ron Paul and listening to sappy hair metal ballads.
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