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Debate one.

Foreign policy was supposed to be McCain’s strength.  Obama held his own.  Most commentators say ‘draw.’  I say, on a night where the advantage should have been significantly McCain, maintaining parity chalks as an Obama win.

I was disappointed in both responses to Georgia/Russia.  McCain mentioned the Caspian pipeline, and I give him major points for that, but he didn’t dare connect the dots because it was a Clinton initiative.  Obama had a wide-open shot, and never took it.  It’s a debate.  Lunge and finish ‘em off.

Speaking observations:

Obama doesn’t fear the intra-sentence pause, he knows how to use it for effect.  He seems to fear pre-sentence pauses, though.  He needs to eliminate the sliced-up phonetics as he forms his ideas before he speaks on each individual idea. Excellent hand gestures, though.  Just right.

McCain needs to stop telling long-winded stories.  If he said he’d been to Versailles in 1919 ... hell, I’d believe him.  He sounds like a grandfather getting huffy over the behavior of the grandkids:  “Dammit, you whippersnappers, you’re going to listen to my story and learn something useful ...”  I sometimes thought I could hear snores.

McCain was trying to sell experience tonight, yet he threw experience in the bonfire to legitimize Mrs Palin [legitimacy that is beginning to crumble at the foundations]. 

I wonder who will buy tonight’s discounted experience?  After the post-RNC fire sale, it’s not supposed to be worth much.  About equal to those real estate investments on Wall Street.

Later: Fact-checking the debate.  Nothing to fear on the Democratic side.

Even later: While digging through the initial reactions on the Right side of the aisle (and they seem to agree draw, or slight win for Obama), I observe some right-wingers calling Obama a ‘stupid studdering moron’ [sic].  Another sad (and cruel) misperception.  First off, Obama’s verbal tics are not a stutter ... it’s having too much to say, and not being able to parse the bounty into a sentence. We all do it.  Second of all, stutterers have, on average, higher IQ’s than the general populace.  You’d want a stutterer for President, if wits count for anything at all in politics these days. 

09/26/08 • 10:43 PM • Politics • No Comments

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