We kept joking about live-blogging the debate last night, and for a moment I thought I really would, but then I died of boredom, making live-blogging no longer feasible. Yawn! Town Hall? Town Lull is more like it. (Sorry, that’s the best I could do.) My favorite part, as per usual, was the commentary after. I enjoy watching people on TV have the exact same conversation I’m having with my friends in front of the TV. I agreed with whichever talking head said that the set-up and the insistence that the audience members have no reaction whatsover to anything pretty much killed the mood. Nonetheless, I felt “that one” did a good job seeming presidential. I thought McCain committed too many personal space violations in an attempt to be friendly. C’mon, John, boundaries are beautiful. I kept thinking about how he probably has gross sour breath but you’d have to act like you didn’t notice. I also thought “the greatest force for good in the history of the world” was something of an overstatement, and was disappointed by Obama’s own American exceptionalism stance. I hope that at his inaugaration speech, Obama opens with something like, “Psyche! I hate this racist, imperialist country! And I hate Zionism. Suckas!”
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What about, “I was hoping for a Town Maul, but all I got was this Town Crawl!”
One year my mother took me to the Miss Idaho pageant, as she did every year like a responsible parent, and a woman actually did say ‘psyche!’ during the interview portion. She said she’d “seen God” and He told her (rightly, I think) that she should not be parading around in nothing but a swimsuit like a common whore, and then she broke down crying and had to be helped off the stage. That’s the sort of ‘psyche!’ moment I’d like to see from the McCain/Palin ticket.
Ooh, yeah that’s much better! The near-rhymes are always tricky.
On a related note, and oddly reminiscent of Palin’s interview with Couric, an old Youtube fave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII
oh my, that would be a fantastic inauguration speech.
When Obama says, “Suckas!”, can we clap, then? Or do we still wait for Tom to give us the thumbs up?
Ha — no, Tom is outta the game. “Sucka” is the crowd’s cue to go wild.
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