Is there some kind of neo-con patois that I just never picked up? Because I defy any of you to make sense out of McCain’s logical flow at the debate tonight. The way he fluttered from point to incohesive point with that sort of slack jawed, cagey terror reminded me of me when I feel like my argument is being crushed, and I don’t want me in the White House.
And yet, of course, following the broadcast, dickbags from the network news are praising McCain, announcing it has his best performance yet. And uh, I guess? He didn’t look like such a total pussy this time since he “said it to his face” (instead he just looked like a CRYBABY), but he also came off as more insane and illogical than ever. I guess for all of these tv pundits who are completely obsessed with forcing this artificial climate of “balance” at the sacrifice of media integrity, that makes it a toss up?
The health care question was so elliptical it was like a fucking anesthetic: Obama talks about small businesses being exempt from the fine. Cue McCain responding that Joe Toiletwater can’t afford to buy a bussiness because he’ll be charged a fine. Cue Obama saying, OMG I JUST TOLD YOU THERE WAS NO FINE. Cue McCain repeating that Joe Bidet will be fined under Obama’s plan as matter-of-factly as the earth being round. Does he underestimate the audience that much? For that matter, should I?
Imagine despising the world so much, every word you spoke was an effort to keep alive the brittle fantasy world you’ve constructed–whew! Sounds like a full time job. The kind of full time job you might have at Fox News, or something. These neocons are so phenomenally disconnected from who they pruport to speak for, everything they say is a pretty good gauge of the exact opposite of what most Americans are feeling. That’s KINDOF amazing, when you think about how long their narrative reign went unchallenged, but there seems to be a collective disgust for this Rovian brand of “reality” brewing in most people which is of some comfort. The rubes, , but they aren’t the whole truth. I sedate myself at night by petting the cat, knocking back a few mgs of valium, and repeating to myself that most people are not evil and awful and stupid, over and over and over again. You might have noticed the upswing in my optimism, no?
On the flipside, Obama himself closed out with a brilliant co-opting of a classically republican narrative, and I think it really underscores how far the neocons have fallen from the actual direction most people want to head. People older than myself often seem to cling to some nostalgic idea of the republicanism of yore, not yet ready to look the repub’s mutant bastard son, neoconservativism, in its hideous face. I understand. It’s them I’m curious about most, and how hearing words like this coming from Obama affects the way they feel about the state of partisan politics today:
But it’s not going to be easy. It’s not going to be quick. It is going to be requiring all of us — Democrats, Republicans, independents — to come together and to renew a spirit of sacrifice and service and responsibility.
Brilliant move. His energy wasn’t exactly on point tonight, but in terms of clarity and specific strategy, he knocked it out of the park. No matter what any lying asshole on your tv says, the polls will reflect that by tomorrow, too.
okay, I was completely glued to the debate this time. It did feel like McCain and Obama were speaking totally different languages… we stared at each other trying to decipher McC’s phrases, “did we just hear what he said? did he just say a sentence? should I have understood that?” etc.
… as when you are listening to somebody speak in another language that you understand somewhat, but you have to translate every sentence back into your own language, your brain is struggling to keep up. here, there doesn’t seem like there’s much to keep up with.
from the , the two best quotes that kind of made sense, but then made you think, “wait, did he really just actually come out and say that?
on Joe Biden: “He voted against the first Gulf War. He voted against it and, obviously, we had to take Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait or it would’ve threatened the Middle Eastern world supply.”
on mothers’ health: “Just again, the example of the eloquence of Sen. Obama. He’s health for the mother. You know, that’s been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That’s the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, ‘health.’ ”
What? what? yeah. I would apologize for taking these out of context, but there was no context, that is pretty much it.
I find it hilarious (in the way I find a campy horror movie hilarious, nervous laughter, the shakes’sweats’n'shits- ultimately unfunny) that McCain, when asked to talk about negative ad campaigns, took the opportunity in his answers, to Further Smear Obama.
It’s like his advisers sat his robo ass down and were like, look pops, just throw in a few key slanderous phrases, and black eagle eyes of death, for those of us listening with only half an ear (including myself- I was recording other peoples reactions at a bar) and that’s really all you need to worry about.
Also- who is Joe? what about Jolene? or Jodie? or Jo? That and the trade industry totally rules the world.
And finally- when McCain showed his “support” and “pride” in the people who attend his rallies , it was really like a stab in the face of proto-fascism, blinking lights, and cultural badges of who “we are”, what “we stand for”, and how we’ll be trapped like rats in the hell corral if he gets within 100 ft. of the ovoff.
PS: what about the project runway ‘final debate’? :!
McCain looks like someone stapled his face on. And, he totally said Sarah Palin was a breast of fresh air. Did anyone else hear that? A breast of fresh air?!?!?!?! WTF.