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uncle who won't shut up and thinks he knows-it-all. The kind of relative where you wonder whether or not you can stand having him at Thanksgiving dinner again, and you call off Thanksgiving and take that "little vacation" you've been planning.
Ye gods he was boring! And Lehrer just let him run on and on. When Obama tried to speak, McCain kept interrupting; Obama had to rush his words to get a full sentence in. I thought it was a very bad job of hosting by Lehrer--at least in the part I heard.
I was deprived of body language. I heard McCain wouldn't look at Obama. That's bad. And I know McCain looks like death warmed over--really, he looks like a corpse--and Obama looks young and vigorous. It's interesting that I thought McCain "won" the part I heard--he seemed to be walking all over Obama, with Lehrer letting him do so. It was achingly long segments of McDrone, with only a few zingers by Obama, who was not in his best form by any means.
By "won" I don't mean persuaded me, or my concept of any reasonable person. He was totally full of shit. I'm just saying he seemed to be in charge--like a loudmouth at the dinner table is in charge. He was probably coached on doing that, because that is very much his weak point--being a Bush butt kisser, not knowing his own mind, and, like Bush, taking his "talking points" from the Corpo/fascists behind him and not giving a fuck about the content. He says what he's told to say. So him coming out with coherent Corpo/fascist lies and pushing them hard seemed to put Obama on the defensive.
That's what I got from listening. Don't know what people were perceiving image-wise. I turned it off. Couldn't stand it. The point at which I turned it off was where Obama was talking about moving the Forever War to Afghanistan. I was actually angry at Obama at that point--but this had followed my disappointment in him over the "bailout" discussion, for not being inspiring, the way he can be. If ever there was a moment to speak some ringing line--like "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!"--it is now, with Great Depression II staring us in the face--and Obama was doing his "laundry list." He's gonna fix education, and he's gonna fix energy, and he's gonna fix health care, etc. But what he's really going to have to fix are the long bread lines around the corner. We needed inspiration, and he was not in form. Maybe he got into form later on--I don't know. As to content--ideas, intellect--he of course blew McFly away. But he seemed to have trouble getting two words in edgewise.
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