Friday, September 26, 2008

First Presidential Debate: Terminally Boring

The first presidential debate is over and I'm wondering if my ballot will have a choice that says "None of the Above." It was a string of boring sound-bites, vocal bumper stickers and playing it safe. Nothing extraordinary was heard. Obama went with his McCain is Bush theme and McCain declined to attack Obama and the Democrats with the truth about their ruination of the economy by eliminating mortgage lending standards to racial minorities (where borrowers needed no job, no credit and no down payment).

My honest conclusion: the debate was a draw and that hurts McCain. He gained no ground tonight. McCain made me groan when he repeated some of his zingers from the Saddleback forum. They were funny and effective then, but being repeated now made him sound stale and scripted. He repeated the comment, twice, that he "didn't win Miss Congeniality" as a member of the Senate. He also repeated the now stale joke about the earmark for studying bears' DNA: was it for determining the bears' criminality or paternity? Ha ha. So funny. ZZZZZZ.

A very disappointing debate. McCain will have to do much better if he is to overtake Obama in the polls.

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