in for the fight of your life (you lack poetry)

[waltermonkey]

So, Obama didn't slam McCain nearly as hard as I'd hoped. I had pictured the old guy flying backward through the wall and breaking a hip from the sheer impact of the oratory. Here's how he could have performed better in my eyes

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[pmb]

As for Palin/Biden next week... I think it's going to be the most satisfying display since Colbert at the White House Press Corps dinner.

I'm worried it's going to be a glib old man beating up a hurt-looking middle-aged mom on national television. Sure he will "win the debate", but will the numbers go that way?

[flamingweasel]

That's my concern as well, but they have to be training him right now in how to not look like a bully. Though, given Palin's skills at oratory, they're probably teaching her how to twist everything into a personal attack.

It should be interesting. Maybe unwatchable, but interesting.

[waltermonkey]

Well, from what little we know of her, she doesn't do hurt-looking. She's a PITBULL! What she does is lie like a dog, then quickly slide into the empty rhetoric of Bush Cheney et al, then devolve into incoherency. Even other hockey moms will see that likability does not translate into leadership.

[pmb]

What are you talking about "she doesn't do hurt looking"? What do you call her face as she was interviewed by Couric and Gibson and they asked her a question she was unprepared for? Every time they did that, and she made a look like a person who is completely lost but doing her best, republican soccer moms everywhere felt huge pangs of sympathy for her. Do you think this sympathy will be increased or decreased if she gets savaged by crazy old Joe Biden?

[waltermonkey]

Huh. The look I saw was more like, "How dare you ask me stuff. I have people that know stuff for me."

I agree that Biden has to watch it, but I still don't think sympathy will translate to votes from undecideds.