The only thing I learned in tonight’s presidential debate is that John McCain wants to buy everybody a house. If Barack Obama had only said he wanted to teach the world to sing, we not only could have had a Coke commercial, there’s a chance we might actually have been engaged, if not exactly entertained. What a snoozefest. Meandering intros to chopped up, well-worn talking points for ninety minutes is not my idea of letting the good times roll. I am not Mccain’s “friend,” and listening to Obama ramble into a series of “uh, uh, like I’ve said” statements makes my wisdom teeth ache. And I don’t have any.
Watching the “contest” on CNN, I couldn’t help but notice the squiggly lines on their pointless people meter moving, for no apparent reason, in Obama’s favor, even when all he said was that he basically agreed with his opponent. McCain hit Obama a couple of times on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but not hard enough to do any real damage. Obama tried to tie McCain to Bush, but who really cares, since nobody even remembers that Bush is nominally still president.
The AP says they both lied like dogs about just about everything they said, but I probably nodded off. Being AP, they implied McCain lied more, but the checks they gave mainly just split hairs. ABC has a slightly different take.
How many of these things do we have left?
Couldn’t we get rid of both of them and start over?
