Alex Massie Alex Massie

Obama-McCain: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow

Shockingly Tom Brokaw has rejected Bill Kristol’s internet-submitted question. Typical MSM bias. Fair play to the plucky folks at Fox however, they’re doing their best to best to suggest that Obama is less-American than a flesh-eating Muslim eskimo. Or something like that. Fred Barnes, a shit who aspires to being something more anatomical than that, suggests McCain needs to “do a Sarah Palin”… God help us all. Anyway kids, here we go again…

Final Verdict: I’ve been a little harsh on Obama. He won this debate. When even Karl Rove can’t make a great case for McCain then you know the game is over. And, again, Obama looked and came across as a President whereas McCain seemed like, as I say. a cranky wee man who’d been dropped from the bowling club’s first team and considered this a vast. world-changing injustice.

Instant verdict: a no-score draw. Boring and dull and platitudinous. No heavy punches landed. The format scarcely helped. In fact it helped snuff out any threat of life or spark or conflict or, damn it, interest. And so, because of that, Obama, leading in the polls, won. Will puts it more, er, entertainingly but I basically agree with him: “Gut read. Obama owned it. This election’s over unless he murders and eats the flesh of a child on live television.”

3.32: “I think what I don’t know is what most of us don’t know” says McCain. Like what? Life after death?

3.30: “What don’t you know and how will you learn it?” What is Zen about that? Obama’s answer not terrible however. Much more popular with CNN’s women dialers than the men, mind you.

3.27: The rest of us of course are pretty comfortable with a “second holocaust”. Obviously it’s disappointing neither candidate has promised a first strike nuclear policy vis a vis Iran.

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