Round Three and Hair Trigger Tempers
It's 3 weeks before the election and the last day to register to vote in Massachusetts. New York was on Saturday. Boy oh boy, am I ever glad I'm not on assignment in Timbuktu. Tonight, I can sit back with my chums and enjoy the last Presidential debate showdown, a boxing match for the century.
How many bouts will it take for Obama's intelligence, poise and candor to knockout McCain's ignorance, greed and love of power? I can see it now... a left hook on the economy (pow), then a right jab about health care (zing), then finally, a sweeping uppercut on the environment (boom). In one easy round, McCain falls faster than last week's stockmarket.
What started out as a real barnburner many moons ago, a fight with hopes of fair play and respect, turned ugly fast. Both sides are guilty of hitting below the belt when it comes to negative advertising, that's obvious, but when it comes to McCain's temperament, I'm frightened.
I'm hearing bellicose misrepresentations that incite anger, hostility and violence. I hear expressions like 'domestic terrorist' and failing to correct malicious thoughts and Arab Epithets. I hear lots of stuff that intimidates and worries me.
McNasty, as he was known in highschool, also looks like he's on the verge of a foul-mouthed eruption during dabates. Check out his right cheek bone...if it starts twitching and his eyes buckle on the moderator tonight then you know he's muscling to stymie his salty tongue.
Talk of his temper is legendary which might be another reason why traditional right-wing supporters like National Review's Christopher Buckley (son of the founder, William F. Buckley) defected to the left yesterday. Even they can hear the winner's circle in favor of Obama this year.
posted by Sonja Stark of PilotGirl™ @ 5:48 PM
4 Comments:
Be careful Sony, we Dems have a way of losing in spite of appearing that we would win as in 2000 and 2004. So cross your fingers hold your breath and hopefully all will pass as we hope it will!
Coming from a generation that believed in peace, love, and understanding, I have been dismayed to find so many people today who believe in the exact opposite: in hate, war, and creating and broadcasting deliberate misunderstandings.
I must say that this campaign has had one excellent aspect: it's brought this clear difference in basic goals out in the open.
In spite of the hate-mongering, though, many, many, many members of what I would normally think of as the 'opposite' camp - Bush-supporting Republicans in this case - are saying that they cannot in good conscience support the GOP nominee and I applaud them.
We need a president who is intelligent, calm, in command of the facts, who has a vision for positive change.
We do not need a man who got into the Naval Academy solely through pull, graduated fifth from the bottom of his class, is a known hothead and misogynist, who has supported this current administration in 90% of his votes, who additionally is in poor health and propelled someone clearly not qualified into the veep candidate position, whose foreign policy experience consists in living in a state across the Bering Strait from Russia.
If he's a maverick, then he's only a 10% maverick and an irresponsible one on top of that.
Right On Sister! I really love your mind
his salty tongue...... LOL That's is to damn funny!!!!
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