Angry McCain & Stately Obama
THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES ARE OVER and unless a fireball comes blazing out of the sky with Osama bin Laden handcuffed to it bearing an oxygen tank to resuscitate the Free Market Philosophy wrapped in a economic surplus-scented plan to win Afghanistan, John McCain’s anger and slurs won’t be enough to yank the Republican brand out of the septic muck in which it has mired itself.
AND I GUESS THAT’S IT in a nutshell. (I just used the word “Chestnut” the other day on Twitter. What is it with the nuts lately? Must be all this McCain-watching I’m doing.) McCain did what his base wanted him to do, his crazy racist dumbass base, and made an angry fool of himself up there. Barack Obama, our future president, continued to respond thoughtfully to each charge for the most part. The thing is, there is some good vetting to do and I think that still needs to be done…but we can’t get at it. Because these two are caught up in the narrative that has been fashioned for them…which seems to be mostly about the 60s rearing up its volatile counter-culture-lovin head, about the wealthy losing their money to the poor, about the dangerous skeery blackman a cometh, about which moment exactly will see John McCain’s head pop off like the dandelions of yore, aflame with bright anger…. Other questions that pertain to our laws and our nation and our wars and our culture go under the radar.
But hell, I’m glad Joe Sixpack or Joe Plumber or whatever the hell Joe is lately was featured so prevalently. If only more migrants were named “Joe” maybe they could get a shot at being talked about, eh? But somehow “Joe” is the most American name, I guess. Reminds me of growing up and always wanting one of those souvenir nametags on license plate keychains. There were lots of Joes and Jasons and Jacks and Jims and Johns…
UPDATE:
I wonder if we’ll see “Obama” on keychain license plate souvenirs soon. I wonder if we have them already. I bet we do. No wonder men like John McCain look so damn angry.
It was a pitiful sight to see the old man look so angry and desperate, with eyes a’poping, deep ferverent sighs and sniffing back snot so loudly for all to hear! Yes, it was a pitiful sight. An implosion seemed eminent.
Obama really had to tap down his own anger and did it brilliantly. Each time McCain attacked, Obama merely got calmer, taking a couple of sips of the water sitting beside him. His game was on!
your first descriptive paragraph would make a great piece of political art…:)
i’m glad it is over. the debate seemed to be all about obama anyway. obama talked about obama, and mccain talked about obama. mccain, not having any definitive policy to stand on his own merit – could not articulate anything, let alone his strong points. mccain reminded me of a criminal being questioned; trying to distract from his screw up(S), and/or inability to prove his own strength of character, by (trying to) make obama look bad. only mcfake couldn’t do it.
it is refreshing to have in senator obama, the really perfect fit of a desirable profile, for president of this country. this is a quality that has, for too long been absent, in our leaders.
Gee, thanks a lot, sweetleaf. And, thanks for forgiving the misspellings — oops!
well, Nez, only a few days of the electoral torture left, and while I cannot say I have a great deal of interest in any of McCain’s grab bag of shiny positions on the issues, I empathize with him and Obama and all the candidates that ran for the Highest Office.
The whole extremely long drawn out event {two years plus} is not an appropriate way to get to the bottom of who should lead. You say that we still have to do the vetting, and I agree, and if after two years we have to say that, something is very wrong.
The campaigns have to be compressed and have to be made to extract the essence of the candidates, the electoral college should be dumped, the Democratic and the Republican and the third party nomination processes must be examined in detail and aligned, and the circus aspects of a very serious process must be minimized.
OK, I’m done now. Is there anyone out there that can pump up this message and get it considered at a wider level?
his game was on, cocoadelight!
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good points RC.