Debate

I'm posting this bf looking at or hearing any commentary bc I don't trust myself to be honest afterwards and bc I've discovered that I have a blindspot. Short points first. I thought Biden was wonderful. He lied and I yelled at him each time, and there will be ads that show him lying, but I think he came across (simultaneously!) as a statesman and an agent of change. How he did that, given his horrendous record, I'm not sure, but I'm afraid he did.

My gut reaction to Sarah was that she came off as painfully scripted. There were sparks of un-scriptedness, but then I came to think even those were scripted.

I know that I lose sight of what the average voter (let alone the average citizen) is aware of politically. We (the four of us (when LJ is not fed up and is paying attention)) and the people like us are a tiny tiny percentage of the electorate. What's important or significant to us from day to day never registers with the masses (and yes I'll use that term as a shorthand for what I'm talking about).

My problem is that while I'm sure Joe did well (at least until the ads come out), I haven't the slightest idea how Sarah played to the masses. I'm hoping against hope that she didn't seem wooden and scripted, but I really don't know. Which is what has me confused at the moment. How do I know that Joe did well but don't know how Sarah did? And I realized as I watched and didn't know how she was doing that NRO, Townhall, Hewitt, Rush, Weekly Standard, et al. don't know either. Hewitt, for example, thinks he's in touch bc he talks to people but he's talking to a very small self-selected group. We (on the right) often laugh at the echo chamber on the left but we have one as well, and I can't hear past the echo.

Why'd she step into the unitarian executive thing???

Biden's wife died?

Biden's proud of his hit job on Bork. Disgusting.



Final observation (and not original): "Bipartisanship" is a means to an end, sometimes. Never an end in itself.