On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:12:01 -0400, daytripper
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:50:13 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

McCain didn't foam at the mouth or fall down twitching
in an epileptic fit and he didn't look too terribly nuts
or unpresidential, so he won.

God help us.

Proving the old adage; "When the going gets tough the tough
go fishing", me and the pup are in Boulder Junction tonight.
Trout fishing tomorrow during the day, back here to the hotel
room to watch Illini-Penn State tomorrow night, then set up
our basecamp for an extended bout of fall musky and smallmouth
fishing on Sunday.

I'll check in on roff, and post links to pics, every now and
then from a WiFi hotspot at a local watering hole with a dog
friendly outdoor beer garden overlooking the Manitowish River.

Y'all play nice.

Don't despair, your premise is likely flawed. I think most people were
actually wondering if Obama could match up in "Presidentialness" with McCain,
and as far as that goes, Obama did just fine. He was certainly more coherent
than McCain, who frequently struggled to keep a thread on track.

Indeed, McCain may have hurt himself when he started getting agitated and
resorted to filibustering the limited time, and making demeaning statements.
And while I'm not a student of the whole "body language" thing, he came off
looking like a white-knuckled stiff compared to Obama. Sure - he didn't
actually burst into flames, but as he sinks further in the polls, that might
just happen in the next debate.

Anyway...according to the only *sampling* poll of those who actually watched
the debate that I've found so far, Obama "won" the debate hands-down. But the
greater point is, this first debate was supposed to play to McCain's alleged
strengths in foreign policy. It definitely didn't...

Have fun, catch a bunch of feesh!

/daytripper


McCain v. Obama, on the debate and the election, flip a coin - neither
won, neither lost - big, huge, ****ing waste of time in Oxford waiting
for some real excitement today...they both shoulda stayed in DC...

TC,
R