Just makes person feel good. After eight years of moral starvation. Sure looks like a human bein’ (“be in”—get it? we thought it was pretty damn clever in 1968, yes we did) is going to occupy the Oval Office, and that is about as refreshing as it gets.
Used to be I was deeply excited that Obama is Black. Now, after further and I must say torturous exposure to poor John McCain—he wears a corset, right? Old war wound? Did you notice, in the previous debate, no way he could perch on that stool. Nope, he reeled from one prop to another, standing the whole time.
And what year was he was last a POW? Because for him, hey, that’s fresh material—for cringeworthy “jokes” on David Letterman. Dave cringed, the audience cringed, this viewer cringed somethin’ fierce. It is meaningful that John McCain knoweth not What To Say. Two issues: execrable taste and, get off my lawn, the man suffers from senile dementia. I’m telling you.
Here’s a wake up: McCain’s August ’07, announcing on Letterman, some minimal sense of irony intact. And the McCain we have now, tics, leers, corset and all.
I don’t know that he so much sold his soul as lost it, like losing your glasses, somewhere along the campaign trail.
c.f.Ken Burns: We in New Hampshire bear some responsibility … Thinking we had the old McCain, we gave him a decisive victory in our primary.
Thanks a bunch, New Hampshire.
So at this point I’m happy out of my mind just to have a candidate with faculties intact.
Course then there’s my other theory: that McCain realized, somewhere on the stump, NFW do I want to be president. So he calls up Sarah Palin ….
