In the comments following my post on the Obama/McCain debate, Poet and I got to talking about the bail-out, with me saying that in the end, we had no choice. Maybe so, says Poet, but we should have demanded better terms and conditions before we swallowed the pricey potion. And he's right, but I'm not sure we had the time to do that. Read on? Please do.
Well, don't ask me. I am clearly not a pundit.
(But I just read somewhere they're calling it 51-36 for McCain, or something close to that. And I don't know who "they" are. Zzzzz.)
When I watched the Obama-McCain debate I was ecstatic. I thought my guy was pitch-perfect and hit it out of the park and that McCain looked stiff and monochromatic and mean. Okay, so maybe Barack agreed a bit too much with the old coot, but I thought he was showing a kind of reach-across-the-aisle temperament.
Then the pund-nuts weighed in calling it a draw. They faulted Obama for agreeing too much, and faulted McCain for not looking at Obama. Not a game-changer. Yes, more.
I predict that the VP candidate whose name has five letters -- two vowels, two syllables and ends in an N -- is gonna clean up tonight.
Okay, this one is Joe's to lose, but here's hoping he takes a page from Katy Couric's book. By not attacking the pit bull, just asking her simple questions -- "What newspapers do you read?" -- Katy came across as a sweetheart with a soft touch, not someone trying to play the "gotcha game". (As McCain claims the big bad media are doing.) And unless you're living in Cheney's bunker, you know how that's worked out for Sarah. More, and a note about Barb.
Allrighty then, is the post-debate glow holding up? For me, yes.
The spin-dits were their usual jabbering selves, Obama said "I agree with John" too often, looked smug, started strong but dropped points when it got to foreign policy, where McCain clearly cleaned up. And the McCain camp released a statement from Henry Kissinger saying that McCain had it right, he never said no conditional talks with Iran. Hello, Henry Kissinger? Jabba the hut meets the Godfather? Think Nixon, think Vietnam, think back as far as you can . . . Talk about looking at the future vs. looking at the past. It's not just computers he doesn't get.
More, you betcha.
Well, tally ho, booyah and onward. John McCain has suspended his non-suspension of his campaign, having added his spit to the potion being concocted in DC -- and being asked to go away. (What sort of potion we're gonna get remains to be seen -- palliative, curative or just a placebo. In any case, it's going to pricey and taste nasty.)
He is now winging his way to Mississippi, presumably with foreign affairs coach Joe Leiberman -"that's Sunni, S-U-N-N-I", and financial affairs coach Phil Graham --"Say winners, not whiners", and maybe fanny-kissing Bill Clinton is along for the ride, coaching him on domestic affairs. "I did not have sex with that pit bull." More --and a blinkin' John McCain to boot.
And may I say, what a crock of shit. Sensing that we're all grown ups here at the CLB, I generally stay away from the four-letter stuff, but sometimes the situation is so obscene that only profanity will do.
McCain's ratings fell this week, according to a WashPost poll, and even George Will called him a hot head and praised Obama for "looking presidential". New polls show McCain falling behind in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Colorado, and he's taking a serious whuppin' when the polls single out the economy. More.
Here we go again, another unknown bobbing for the ultimate apple -- $700 billion buckeroos of taxpayer dollars. When we were all scrambling to dig out the goods on Levi and Bristol and Trig and Trac and oh yeah, Sara Palin, we were -- kind of missing the big picture. (You're right Poet.)
We should have been running a few background checks on Henry Paulson as well. We have some say in whether or not Sarah takes over our country, but we have no say in whether or not Henry takes over our financial markets. And that $700,000,000,000. More, but not much.
I said I wasn't going to arrange the letters, P, A, L, I, N, in any order resembling the name of the woefully, nay, scandalously, unfit to be VP, former mayor of Wasilla. (Although we can go with NIPAL or LAPIN -- which is French for Alaskan bunny.) And because it's said that the more we talk about the person in question, the more we keep her at the top of the news, I won't mention her. So okay, this one is about the other ticket-topper, Cindy McCain. Can you believe it? F'in Cindy McCain? Oh yeah, much more.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board has blasted John McCain for saying that Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Committee, should be fired. Okay, Cox is one of their own, so this isn't a huge surprise, but their harsh condemnation of the man who most likely will receive their presidential endorsement is. More, but not much.