As theater, last night’s debate was both better and worse. Like a play, there were times where you were wondering what was going to happen next and you started to really dislike one of the characters.
McCain had the same nonsense he had in the last debate. The only difference being that last time, he just kind of dropped the nonsense with a bit of a weird smile whereas this time the nonsense was yelled out by a clearly upset man. After only about 20 minutes, I was thinking “my God, what else can Obama do but stand up and say ‘I don’t need to sit here and take this, good night'”. But he held it together way better than I would have.
And that only makes the comparison more stark: Obama looked entirely Presidential the entire evening and McCain looked more and more like he didn’t belong in the audience, never mind at the table.
McCain’s nonsense is getting tiring. I’m quite surprised he even brought up Ayers because it only gave Obama a chance to settle it. And as far as Obama’s truthiness (thanks, Colbert) goes, there was only the issue of the “negative” adverts that McCain had been running: Obama said they have “all” been negative but what he should have said, and I believe he meant, was that “all in the last month” have been negative.
Oh, and being as white as I am, I feel like I can say this about McCain: if it weren’t for the makeup, I think he’d be transparent. I’m kind of regretting watching it in HD because you could see that his razor had irritated his upper lip.