McCain Was Presidential, Yes -- Nixonian
In the final debate, McCain was Presidential. Only the President was Nixon. The man behaved like an bitter, petulant child. He was righteously pissy throughout the evening. He was trembling. He was in a flop sweat of desperation. He obviously wanted tough but achieved the titanically silly--like your doddy old grandpa grumbling about political pet peeves. His thought process was rambling and ragged. When not speaking, he wore the shit-eating grin of a truly smug asshole. The man was a punchline.
He segued from ranting interminably about Bill Ayers to insisting that his campaign was all about the economy -- a claim he had just thoroughly disproved. "She also understands special needs families," he spewed with whiplash inducing suddenness when asked to describe why Sarah Palin was qualified to be President. Yeah. That's top-of-mind right now. The most important thing to me in a President is that he or she understands special needs families.
His discussion of Colombia was unfollowable. Am I the only one who kept hearing guttural noises coming from his side of table? Was he gobbing in a spittoon? When he lifted his head from under the table, he tried to compare Obama to Herbert Hoover via a piece of tortured reasoning you'd need an Etch-a-Sketch to follow.
Obama described his healthcare plan. McCain described another one and attacked Obama for his own fantasy. Simply extraordinary. He constructed enough straw man arguments to frighten the crows from many a field.
He mocked the idea of a woman's "health" (his quotes) with a dismissive contempt that made you clearly see how he could refer to his wife as "you cunt" before witnesses.
Let's not even discuss Joe the Plumber. Throughout the debate, McCain proved that he hadn't a clue about the socio-economic drivers of the modern world. He's stuck on "play" with taxes and big government. He's stuck in the last century.
Summing up: Obama was, as usual, himself--calm, reasoned, the adult in the room, cognizant of and conversant in the challenges of the coming century.
McCain proved that anyone still considering voting for him should be prohibited from casting a ballot for reasons of unconscionable contempt for country.
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Not much to add to your excellent post other than a resounding yes.
Wow, Leonce, tell us how you really feel.
Agreed 100% with every word :)
Thank you.
That was mean...but
As if McCain's policy maldecisions, contempt for expert opinion even in the supposed strength of security, and continual misstatements and misunderstandings weren't enough. Now, he continues to reveal that he is more like Bush than anybody would have believed 8 years past: egotistical, clueless, and riding a one-trick pony that flagged leagues ago.
His contempt, dissociation from reality, inability to grasp clearly stated questions and answers, and a surly prepossession demonstrate the fallacy in his claims of eing able to work across the aisle.
As for the voters who so disdain our nation that they would choose somebody thus obviously ill-suited to run anything but their mouth, that lack of judgment really ought to disqualify them in taking place in a democratic government, wherein the education and intelligence and discernment of the populace are necessary features to retain both liberty and security.
I thought Obama's statements about who he pals around with was a great way to say to McCain, just shove it ... It was very circumspect and reassuring to the voters that he surrounds himself with the best minds. No way can McCain use 'quilt by association' again. He's so lucky Obama has too much class to bring up all the skeletons living in McCain's 7 glass houses. Obama doesnt do 'tit-for-tat' politics. I am extremely proud to be a supporter of the Obama/Biden ticket. Can't wait until Nov. 4th when we elect them by a landslide resulting in a mandate from the people to move this country forward.
Suggestion to McCain: Try to save what reputation you have left by focusing on the issues for the remaining 19 days. You have a lot of repairing to do for when you go back to the Senate. And show some leadership and reign in your bitpull from threatening the peace of our nation by riling up crowds to violence. Oh happy day when Sarah Palin goes back to Alaska -- she may find things have changed since she's shown her true colors in the lower 48.
Sharon
I also found his remarks reassuring and like you I am so proud to be supportive of the ticket. Actually, Biden was my preference for the top spot early on, so I was thrilled when he was chosen as his running mate. This campaign has invigorated my daughters interest in politics and she spends all her time (when not caring for the kiddies) researching the facts in an effort to find the truth. She does not back down when confronted by conservative friends and has expressed herself in an articulate manner that surprised even her mother. She calls me non-stop during the debates, frustrated with the nonsense she hears from the opposition. I encourage her to "hold on" and have the confidence that Obama will be victorious in November.
I thought you were right, that it would be hard to use "guilt by association" after last night. But now I hear that the robocalls are out all over the country, where someone picks up a phone and hears even slimier innuendo about Obama hanging out with terrorists. Has McCain become that desperate? Or is his campaign just running amok?
And the racist literature being posted and handed out from his own campaign headquarters now - including the racist "food-stamp" images with Obama's face, watermelon, fried chicken imagery. God deliver us - is this what democracy is all about. Is this what those young men and women are spilling their blood for???
We ought to all go out into the streets in sackcloth and ashes and rend our garments and groan and wail as the Old Testament prophets did to show our outrage and grief at the sacrilege that is committed against the ideals of our country.
WOW
Thanks, I can sleep now. Loved this blog. I was listening to some follow up by some pundits who claimed that the "line of the night" was McCain's rehearsed ditty about "I am not Bush, and you should have run 4 years ago".....I suppose they were so excited they didn't listen to Obama's apt reply.
Was unaware that McCain used the "C" word about his wife, but combined with his lame and cruel jokes about rape and Chelsey Clinton it becomes very clear why my misogynist male acquaintances adore him so. I can picture them around a table, giggling, and backslapping each other. There is a line Harvey Keitel says in Taratino's film Pulp FIction, that would be very appropriate but they wouldn't post this comment if I let it fly.
Obama was strategic and brilliant politically when he undercut McCain's dribble about Ayers, explaining just who he would choose to surround himself with when deciding policy.
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