Secondhand Smoking Jacks: I demand

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I demand

a time of possession analysis. If Barry didn't talk for 66% or more of the time, I'll eat my hat. Did anyone see Barry give the signal to Schieffer to cut McCain off? Schieffer tried to, but McCain didn't let him, at least that time.

12 comments:

Michael said...: The Corner and Ace think McCain won. I'm afraid I can't agree.; October 15, 2008 at 9:57:00 PM CDT
Stephanie said...: I didn't get to see it.; October 15, 2008 at 10:44:00 PM CDT
Stephanie said...: I'm reading that McCain referred to Trig as "autistic". Did that happen?! Sheesh.; October 15, 2008 at 10:55:00 PM CDT
Michael said...: I thought Mac did poorly, but apparently the rightblogosphere disagrees, even the poll at AOL has them tied. Either I'm just too tough on my team or my political instincts are nil, and I suspect it's the latter.

Still want to see a time of talking breakdown, although no one else has mentioned it, so maybe I'm just clueless.; October 16, 2008 at 5:38:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: CBS, CNN, Fox instant polls say Obama won. Youtube hit of McCain making weird face. I saw just a little of it last night. Thought McCain was sort of OK, but his rage/contempt and spouting of right blogosphere stuff made him seem goofy and out of touch. Didn't see much, though, so that may not be fair.; October 16, 2008 at 8:24:00 AM CDT
Michael said...: JPod: The problem, in my view, is that the shorthand in which McCain spoke about these matters made them comprehensible only to those of us who are already schooled in them. In almost every case, Obama answered McCain’s shorthand with longhand — with detailed, even long-winded answers that gave the distinct impression he was more in command of the details of these charges than the man who was trying to go after him on them.

We’re not the audience for these debates. Undecided voters are, and undecided voters are, or so studies tell us, often astonishingly ill-informed. You can only bring up new issues if you’re able pithily to explain the context and meaning of them. It is not a rap on McCain to say he’s not good at it; he doesn’t want to bother with the introduction. But in a setting like that, the introduction is what matters, far more than the attack.; October 16, 2008 at 8:35:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: Obama's usually horrible at providing the intro, so that's a credit to his debate prep, I guess.

I just watched this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzsxTj0dnM

Yikes. Good thing I didn't watch before bed last night or McCain would have given me nightmares with those faces. And I don't even think this is the famous clip of his weird faces which I haven't seen yet.; October 16, 2008 at 8:44:00 AM CDT
Michael said...: I have the transcript. I can put it in word and do a word count, but dont have time right now. Any bets on the outcome?; October 16, 2008 at 9:15:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: Was there some prohibition against saying more words than your opponent?; October 16, 2008 at 9:43:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: or are you saying McCain goofed by not spending the time necessary to spell out his plans?; October 16, 2008 at 9:43:00 AM CDT
Michael said...: As you of course know, neither. My point, as you know, was that Schieffer let Barry drone on and on while several times cutting McCain off.; October 16, 2008 at 9:48:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: Ah -- didn't know he cut McCain off. Haven't seen that in clips I've seen. Thought McCain just quit talking.; October 16, 2008 at 10:08:00 AM CDT

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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