Philadelphia Debate Thread
April 16th, 2008
About 45 minutes of Obama bashing before we get to any actual issues. George Stephanopoulos is a little weasel, it’s no wonder that Bill Clinton hates him, now. On a brighter note, Obama has gotten much better at handling this kind of stuff. A moment of hilarity: after dominating the first segment of the debate with attack questions to Obama, Chuck Gibson apologized to Clinton for not giving her enough time to speak. Now Stephanopoulos is talking about McCain’s grand plan to cut taxes, which will fix the economy, restore dignity to America and cure cancer. But Democrats are FOR outrageous taxes. Why do they hate the American people so?
I may have to stop blogging about the campaign. This election is important, what Clinton said about her trip to Bosnia is not. The friend of a friend of a neighbor of a kissing cousin to Obama who said “Fuck you America” is not important. If obsession over unimportant issues and a misunderstanding of the real issues puts John McCain in the White House 7 months from now, that will be important.
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1. Michael Kay | April 17th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I’d say the accepted theory goes something like this: when two candidates, each highly trained in presenting only rehearsed moments, each expressing views that are not substantially different to the average voter, campaign against each other for more than six months, under the imperfect microscope of a 24-hour news cycle, any comments outside of the pre-scripted bubble, and indeed anything that however superficially seems to give a hint to the candidate’s true character, which is believed to be (is?) deeply hidden underneath the skin manufactured by the spin doctors, is blown out of proportion. There is nothing else to talk about. (At least in the eyes of tired journalists who have been traveling with, eating the same greasy food as, sleeping in the same lumpy beds as (probably more lumpy actually), and shitting in the same bathrooms as the candidate. Read Boys on the Bus if you get a chance, it’s great.)
That’s the theory. Though, of course, there is more to it. There always is.
2. Mark Stamas | April 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Important? Can you say catastrophe? He’ll finish the job W started, that is, the inevitable decline of the once great United States of America.
President Obama, and we the people of the United States of America, won’t let that happen.
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