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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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[hurdle1gal.livejournal.com]

Didn't watch the debate really, except for the last 5 minutes of it. And during that time, McCain blinked about 1000 times. I guess he needs sunglasses because Obama didn't nearly blink that many times. Also, my fiancee asked about a weird smurk McCain had on his face at one point while Barack was talking...

But honestly, I don't froddin' care anymore. Just let us vote already and end this froddin' thing. The only one who are benefitting from this torturously long campaigning period are the comedians of late night and witty bloggers (not intended as an insult to comedians or wits, since it's the only thing that is interesting about the process anymore).

Ok, I've gone off-roading... and I'm about to fall off a cliff as a result... byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

(thud)