Prez Debate #1
1. I watched it streaming online, but have not seen any of the punditry.
Obama did extremely well. Presidential and cool and smart and good-natured.
But it seems clear that McCain neither “lost” nor stumbled nor did a Nixon 1960 — and that constitutes a surprise victory. He comes across better on formal TV than in stump speech news video.
2. Shocked to hear McCain harping on cutting spending. Twice going out of his way to do so at length.
As if going out of his way to parrot Herbert Hoover. Who spent his last three years echoing calls from Wall Street and Treasury and the Fed for a balanced budget to combat the contagion set off by the ’29 crash.
As if unaware that by March 1933, as FDR took the oath, every bank in the country had shut its doors, and every titan of finance had passed through the Congress to confess in public the bankruptcy of his ideas.
What is McCain thinking? Same thoughts that led him to quietly participate in the House GOPher food fight at the White House last night?
3. Â Also less than pleased that Obama kept saying We gotta get Osama.
But, that’s show business …
4. So. It’s a real race. And whatever complacency may have infected Team Obama in Denver has now been dosed.
So what’s the Vegas line? Another half dozen banks are likely to disappear next week. Surely the GOP cannot survive this calamity …?
Oh yeah …
Speaking of which. I fear Joe Biden (whom I like) may overplay his hand in next week’s episode — may talk too much — and too exuberantly — his eyes and his teeth are way too bright — allowing Miss Alaska, like McCain last night, to exceed expectations by not shitting the bed and tumble out ahead.
Somebody give Senator Biden a sleeping pill, he’s always flailing out of frame. Less is more, Joe. Think Michael Caine.
ed says:
Here’s the Daily Show review.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:34 am