Debate impressions

[porysski]

I can't get over just how much McCain looked like Nixon tonight, with his shoulders up by his ears and his neck hunched forward. I really expected him to hold up his fingers in a "four more years" gesture at any moment.

Horserace-wise, I think it's pretty much over for McCain. FFS, I live in Missouri, and we're polling at Obama+3. McCain needed a

Comments

[xamses]

American exceptionalism drives me nuts, but I understand why Obama in particular needs to make that appeal. I mean, the right wing is spreading rumors that he's an evil secret Muslim Manchurian candidate who was actually born outside US borders.

[porysski]

Oh, I understand why they have to say it; I just hate it. Similarly, I'm almost sad that it looks like Obama's win will include FL. If he managed to win without it, we might actually see a campaign in the future that didn't pander to the pro-Israel lobby so much.

[xamses]

Doubtful. The fundies like Israel almost as much as the Jews anyway.

[porysski]

Yeah, but I put it in the same thread as a complaint about ending American Exceptionalism for a reason; they're both pipe dreams of things I'd like to have happen but which never will.

[blackendstryfsh]

I wish I had your confidence, but I have never gotten over the Bush-Gore debates, which I thought Gore clearly one. I think Obama's professorial skills made him look more poised and at ease. I also liked how he would sit and listen to McCain, while McCain would scribble furiously (with a sharpie?) and posture.

[porysski]

Actually, I don't think he did all that well. His performance was a bit sub-par for him -- with a couple of notable exceptions (e.g. pointing out that singing about bombing Iran is not exactly talking softly)

My reactions don't matter, though. There hasn't been a chance that I wouldn't be voting for Obama since February (which is about when he clinched the Dem nomination). What matters is how the people who have not yet decided saw it, and polling so far shows that they saw it as an Obama win by a wide margin.

[xamses]

The only thing that really matters is who the public in general thinks won. They seem to think Obama did.

[tokahfang]

I am still scratching my head about how being born within US borders instantly makes a worker more innovative.

[porysski]

It's the superpowers we gain from our coal plant pollution. This is why coal must always be an important part of our energy strategy.

[bwrynn]

"Do you know how pathetic it is to be solar powered?
All the other guys got their strength from real stuff,
y'know- radiation, chemical spill, coal."

"Who got their power from coal?"

"Industrial Lathe Man!"

[porysski]

Ok, you tell Kal-El he's pathetic. I'll be way over here.