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[avevale_intelligencer]

Someone really ought to have told John McCain that during a televised presidential debate is not the time to pull funny faces. (Making Light, I believe, has the picture. I'm not going to link to it, because it's irrelevant and a cheap shot.) Does anyone remember anything else about the debate?

You know, it occurred to me, thinking about that phrase "presidential debate"...once the candidates are chosen, the president can only be one of them. So, in the persons of Obama and McCain and whatever other serious candidates there may be, you have a sort of quantum indeterminate "Schrödinger's president," narrowed down from billions of people to a number between two and maybe ten. (Unfortunately, they're not in a sealed box, with or without a poison pellet. The experiment isn't perfected yet.) Most of the work is thus already done, and you can tell a lot about what the next presidential term is going to be like from studying the candidates and ruling out anything that neither/none of them would countenance.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not...

Anyway. I need to rest my brain and eat something.

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[filkertom.livejournal.com]

If McCain wasn't off his meds, then he should have his doctor adjust them, now. The entire "Joe, you're rich!" spiel was incoherent. Most of his answers were incoherent, a number of them off-topic, and the impatience with and vitriol for Obama were palpable. He contradicted himself a number of times, as with the SCOTUS answer, and when accusing Obama of having never gone "south of our border" when he just picked Sarah Palin to be his Veep. He just seemed off-balance the whole night, easily flustered, and kinda scary, actually.