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Repugnican John McInsane and Democrat Barack Obama faced off last night in their first presidential debate, which was held in Oxford, Mississippi. As the news photos indicate, Obama appeared to be much more focused than was the hot-headed and annoyingly condescending McCainosaurus, who often appeared to be addled and who very apparently had a hard time making eye contact with the black man with whom he shared the stage.
Obama wins!
(which I proclaim, um, after the debate)
So I watched the first presidential debate between Repugnican John Sidney McCain III and Democrat Barack Obama last night, and I saw why the McCainosaurus had tried to cut and run from the debate.
Fossil fool McCain demonstrated even before the debate how unpresidential he is: I'm in the debate... I'm out of the debate... I'm in the debate... And the Repugs called John Kerry a flip-flopper.
And that the McInsane-Pentecostal Palin campaign actually released an Internet ad proclaiming that the McCainosaurus had won the debate before the old coot even let all of us know whether he'd even attend the debate sure makes you wonder how in the hell they'd handle national security if they can't even handle their own advertising.
As I watched the debate with my brother and my sister-in-law, the game was to see if McInsane would actually lose it on live television. At several points in the debate he apparently barely could contain his temper. I love how he tried to handle his rage: he would give that fake Repugnican smile (I know, that's redundant...) and his voice would go up several octaves in this annoying, condescending tone.
When pissed off, which is constantly, the McCainosaurus tries to act like a wise old grandpa who wants to give us stupid little children a lecture.
And that he seemed barely able to even look at Obama during the debate struck me as revealing as to the McCainosaurus' probable view of blacks.
Everything that McInsane could morph into a militaristic metaphor he did. The man lives in the past -- war-time past.
And what was with the Sharpie that the McCainosaurus clutched throughout the debate? Fine if we want to assert that the pen is mightier than the sword, but who goes into battle with a thick-tipped Sharpie? A nearly blind man, I guess?
Anyway, the elephant in the debate hall was that, as Obama correctly noted -- Obama got out the best one-liners and zingers of the debate, as Repugnicans don't know how to be funny or clever (the McCainosaurus' attempted DNA-related joke fell astoundingly flat) -- the McCainosaurus acts as though the Vietraq War started just last year instead of in 2003.
The McCainosaurus kept repeating how we just can't let the soldiers remaining in Vietraq come home in dishonor, without a victory.
Jesus Fucking Christ: When the unelected Bush regime launched the Vietraq War in March 2003, the rationale was that we were going to "LIBERATE" the Iraqi people from the evil dictator Saddam Hussein (whom the U.S. government supported when Iraq was at war with Iran). They even called it "Operation Iraqi Freedom" (because "Operation Iraqi Liberation" spells OIL, the real reason for the Vietraq War).
How did we go from "liberating" the Iraqi people to fighting the Iraqi people? How did we go from being the Iraqis' "liberator" to being their enemy?
I mean, didn't even Big Brother in 1984 wait longer to completely rewrite history than the Repugnicans waited to rewrite the history of the Vietraq War?
The actual history of the Vietraq War was quite conveniently lost as the McCainosaurus kept repeating how we Americans just cannot be humiliated as we leave Iraq -- because National Face-Saving is Paramount to All, you see.
The other thing that the addled McCainosaurus kept harping on -- the other elephant in the debate room -- was "pork barrel spending." McInsane and/or Obama kept mentioning $18 billion in such spending -- which is nothing compared to the hundreds of billions of American taxpayers' dollars that the BushCheneyCorp has emptied from the U.S. Treasury to the pockets of the war profiteers (like Uncle Dick's Halliburton) via the bogus war in Vietraq.
And that's what the proposed $700 billion taxpayer bailout of the private financial industry, which the BushCheneyCorp is trying to shove down our throats, is: a last-gasp attempt to empty that which still remains in the U.S. Treasury into the pockets of the already-super-rich before the BushCheneyCorp is booted from the White House.
So we're talking hundreds of billions of dollars stolen from the U.S. Treasury by the Repugnicans, but here is the McCainosaurus harping on what is just a tiny fraction of that in "pork barrel spending." He's what you call a fucking liar. And google "Keating Five" to see how much integrity the "maverick" "reformer" McCainosaurus really has.
Obama did a good job last night. He stumbled over some words, but overall he remained calm and collected and came across as quite bright -- in a word, presidential. His biggest fault is that he didn't hit the McCainosaurus hard enough on the two aforementioned elephants in the debate hall. Obama went much easier on the McCainosaurus than he had to, and had Obama gone tougher on the hot-headed McInsane, we might actually have seen the potentially campaign-ending explosion of anger that my brother, my sister-in-law and I were hoping for last night.
Obama is accused of not being "warm" enough, but I want my president to be competent. I don't need my president to make me feel warm and fuzzy and tingly. That's my boyfriend's job.
(Although, that said, I would like to introduce a new word to the language: PILF. Because that's what Obama is: a hottie. Damn, is he cute. I don't think we've ever had a president whom I could see myself sleeping with [or even cavorting with in the Oral -- er, Oval -- Office]; Obama would be the first president I wouldn't mind waking up next to in the morning. [Some people say Bill Clinton isn't/wasn't unattractive, but I never could get past his W.C. Fields-like schnoz.])
Anyway, if Obama isn't "warm" enough, the McCainosaurus certainly doesn't strike me as "warm." He's hot-headed, which isn't warm, and when the McCainosaurus tries to act warm, it's obvious that it's an act, and again, his old-uncle-like condescension when he is pretending to be warm is nauseating.
You know, people vote on image, not on substance, so I won't talk any more substance than I have. The two biggest substantive issues of the debate -- the McCainosaurus' glaring disingenuousness regarding the actual history and the actual course of the Vietraq War and how the "pork barrel spending" that he kept railing about is nothing compared to the hundreds of billions that the Repugnicans have stolen from the American taxpayers over the past eight years and want to steal now -- I have already discussed.
The only people who will be able to get past the poor way that the McCainosaurus came off last night -- specifically, an addled, repetitive, condescending, barely contained human volcano -- are the white supremacists (and they number in the millions) who will overlook anything and everything that McInsane might say or do because they'd rather die before they cast a vote for a black guy for president.
The rest of us Americans -- those who aren't white supremacists and who know what's best for our nation -- see clearly that Barack Obama won last night's debate-that-almost-wasn't-because-McInsane-is-unstable-and-erratic-and-thus-unfit-to-be-president.
The choice between Obama and the McCainosaurus is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, millions of Americans have no brains, and they still will cast a vote for the McCainosaurus -- even with the very good possibility that were the McCainosaurus to make it to the White House and keel over, Sarah "I Can See Russia from My House!" Palin could be our very first Pentecostal/pro-Armageddon president.
We can move to Canada if Barack Obama is not our next president, but you can't run from a nuclear Armageddon.
P.S. Some random notes on last night's debate:
- The debate got off to an awfully awkward start, with moderator Jim Lehrer trying to cajole the two debaters into following the strange debate format that apparently hadn't been explained to the two debaters adequately and that even Lehrer didn't seem to fully understand himself. You know, I think I'm fine with the traditional debate format; "new and improved" isn't always "improved."
- The bracelet war during last night's debate was surreal and sad. The McCainosaurus proclaimed that he was wearing a soldier's bracelet, and then Obama showed us that he was wearing such a bracelet, too. How about in the next debate both men just show us their penises? And/or see who can urinate the farthest?
- As a left-hander (yes, I'm a lefty in both senses of the word), I was surprised to see both Obama and the McCainosaurus writing their notes with their left hands. Obama, however, can see and so he didn't use a Sharpie. (The Sharpie people, however, I am sure were happy for the very long free television commercial for their product.)
- I watched the debate in high-definition television (my brother's new one; I still have an old-school television set). You know, while it might be interesting to watch porn in HDTV, most people you really don't need to see in HDTV, which offers not just high definition, but startlingly high definition, and I noted that geezers McInsane and moderator Lehrer looked like they weren't just wearing makeup, but that they'd been sprayed with peach-colored liquid latex or spray paint or something... I guess that HDTV necessitates such drastic measures...
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