“That One”
The “Undecided” voter is about the least likely to come up with penetrating questions. This thought occured to me at when Brokaw relayed back to one of the “Undecided” voters to ask the question about why he should trust cynical political parties, and either candidate for breaking through highly charged partisanship. This was not going to come up with any answer — I could script Obama and McCain’s answer right then and right there. Simply put, they would have done better to farm that question slot out to a 9/11 Truthers Convention, who at least would throw something pointed and answerable.
As for the “debate” itself, John McCain pointing to Obama and saying “that one” will go down in history alongside Al Gore sighing. And it probably put the final nail in his campaign’s coffin.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:17 am
The Truthers would definitely have questions, but man oh man am I sick of hearing them. “How can you explain buildings coming down at free fall speed for the first time in history because of kerosene? Why was there so much dust? Dust, everywhere! DUST DUST DUST!! Why all the DUST!!??”
Um, next question please.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Do you ever get the strange feeling that McCain actually wants to lose?
October 9th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Oh, he wants to win. The problem is that there’s just no discernable path to victory. The best that can be done is a modest levelling off of the economic situation and a rather dark series of insinuations about Obama.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Obama seems to be getting more than the usual amount of slanderous insinuations/accusations. I’ve heard some doozies: Obama is a closeted gay cokehead who murdered his (former) church’s choir director; Obama’s a closeted Muslim; Obama isn’t even a U.S. citizen; etc. But the Bill Ayers connection actually is disturbing. I think the McCain camp has finally latched on to some real dirt. Maybe now they won’t look so desperate…
October 15th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Regarding Bill Ayers: If you say so.
Incidentally, as far as smears and all that, try this: in 1920, Republican presidential candidate Warren Harding was accused of being … BLACK.