Rather a pity nobody was watching....

Well you know what they say about crotchety old married couples.

I was doing a vanity spellcheck on my long post and by the time I posted the reply, I saw that he'd beat me to it. I was too lazy to go back and revise my post.

I also saw more shots of Obama listening to McCain as he spoke. (Yeah, maybe he wasn't really listening but it gave the the appearance that he was.) McCain seemed distracted, sometimes didn't look at him.

The pacing back and forth kinda bugged me.

ETA: And I'd also like to add that I would be terrible in a debate like this. Much less it being televised and the whole world is watching... So I guess kudos are in order to all of them.

I think this was intentional ... McCain kept walking into Obama's television shot while Obama was answering, forcing the cameramen to hastily switch to a far less flattering shot of Obama that didn't have McCain in it.

Once, twice - yeah, a mistake. No less than 12 times? Sorry, on purpose to get in the shot with your opponent and gain more air time or, maybe giving McCain too much smarts credit, forcing less flattering shots of your opponent.


Sorry, John. There can be no less flattering shots than you limping all over the place, cradling your useless limb of an arm, smiling like you're going to blow up the planet for the mad scientific fun of it, and wheezing all the while from the effort.


UGH. :mad:

A good point made (at fivethirtyeight.com) regarding McCain's slight gains in some polls over the last week:

Obama is showing somewhere around 6, 7, or 8% leads (11% on Gallup!). Over the last 20 years, the largest spread in a general election has been 8.5%. So Obama's pushing the bounds of how far he can swing the electorate. With that big of a lead, there's pretty much nowhere for him to go BUT down. There are certainly fewer and fewer undecideds to gain. So a point or two back in McCain's direction is not surprising, nor particularly significant.

Popcorn for tonight's debate - check!
Water balloons - no need

I'll have to once again catch the highlights after the fact as I've got other plans for tonight. For my own blood pressure, that's probably a good thing.

Dude, I forgot that was tonight. Good thing I turned down going to the movies!

Am I old now, because I'd rather see the debate than go see Jurassic Park in the theater?

I'm assuming that you've seen Jurassic Park in the theater.

On the other hand, tonight's debate will be fresh and new.

Baseball or politics. It's a tough choice. Although the game tonight might not be much better for your blood pressure.