So has there been something about the debates? I've been busy the last couple of days, and just searched but didn't find anything (except cjhsa's chartered plane bit). Apologies if I missed it.
I watched the full first hour, then Survivor came on *coff* and I went back to it during commercials. Was out today and saw some highlights on CNN that I hadn't seen live, like Obama responding to Gravel's baiting about who he was going to nuke -- heh!
Dick Morris is saying Obama won:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268978,00.html
I dunno.
It was disappointing to me on a few levels. Except for Gravel, so damn scripted. I didn't like how Obama danced around a few of 'em. I noticed other people dancing too, I know, that's what they do, they practice and then if the question is at all about what they practiced they do what they practiced. Even if it doesn't quite answer the question. Still annoyed me.
Obama looked nervous, too, especially at the beginning. His eyes were a little squinty, his body language was a bit tense.
In terms of who did BETTER, though, eh. Edwards was a big disappointment. I did NOT like his answers to the $400 haircut questions. (Goes to notes.) (Yes I took notes.) (Even though I cut away for Survivor I'm nerdy enough that I took notes.)
Quote: Well, that was a mistake, which we've remedied. It was simply a mistake. But if the question is, Brian, whether I live a privileged and blessed lifestyle now, the answer to that's yes.
A lot of us do. But it's not where I come from. And I've not forgotten where I come from.
(My notes didn't make sense -- "blessed" and "a lot of us do," but I couldn't remember what came before that -- went to the transcript for the whole thing.)
That just annoyed me. A LOT of us do not have that kind of privileged and blessed lifestyle. "Some of us do" maybe. And that segue seemed just way too blatant and slick. Yeah yeah yeah you had a poor upbringing we know. Something about how he handled it seemed wrong, and I'm sympathetic to him.
Another note, heavily underlined: "Hillary: SHIFTY-EYED." She's really bad about that, especially when she's uncomfortable. I made that note when she was talking about her vote for the Iraq war, and she was looking down + side-to-side, looked terrible.
Biden did pretty well, he had some good lines, ("yes," heh!), had a certain anti-bullshit attitude that was impressive.
Obama had some nice ones too -- I liked "my wife may have a longer list" in replying to mistakes he's made, and his spirited comeback to Gravel (would have liked to have seen some more of that spirit in the rest of the debate -- maybe he warmed up over the course of it and I missed the best stuff by missing so much of the last half hour).
Noted that Hillary didn't take the chance to say something about her vote on Iraq in that section ("mistakes in the last 4 years") -- instead she went way back to 1993 and the health care thing, hmph.
Oh, and one thing that I haven't noticed much of, don't know if this is the only time he's done it though -- Obama seems to usually shy away from using terms like "will" when it comes to the presidency -- more "if I become president," or "an Obama presidency would..." But at some point he was talking about something that would be done as president and said "something that I intend to do." One of the first times I saw him talking like he thinks he WILL actually be president.
That seems to be the end of my notes.
What did you guys think?
