The Final Debate

I had the (mis)fortune of watching the third and final presidential debate of 2008 in HD. I learned why John McCain blinks so much. He's trying to blink away the onset of another bout with cancer. His teeth could be the logo for the Cleveland Browns. McCain was writing his notes with a sharpie, probably because he couldn't read his own writing if he used a regular pen.

After Barack Obama, who doesn't look much better than McCain in HD, claimed that negative attacks had become the center of the McCain campaign, McCain inexplicably continued to attack Obama with ridiculous allegations before hypocritically asserting that his campaign is not about negative attacks.

McCain has a palpable contempt for Obama and it manifests in condescension. One fatal flaw (of the many) of the McCain campaign is that he claims Obama doesn't know anything about anything. The problem with it is that if Obama shows the least bit of knowledge on a subject, he disproves McCain's point.

At one point, McCain argued against "spreading the wealth." He wants the wealth to stay in the hands of the very few. It's too bad the value of your vote doesn't correlate with the amount of wealth you possess; McCain might have half a chance then. At the very least, McCain should get one vote this fall, from Joe the Plumber, but he might be the only one.

So, Obama won another debate and again, it was irrelevant, because he'll win easily, even if he had shown up to the debate in a wife beater and began by saying, "god bless Paraguay, the greatest country on the planet."