Senator Government, Obama's New Nickname

I didn't have a chance to watch the second debate live so I had recorded it. I ended up only watching ten minutes of that debate before turning it off. I later deleted the recording, I just didn't want to hear the same garbage again. So when Wednesday night's debate began I didn't have much intention of watching it but I got sucked in unfortunately.

As of right now when I'm writing this I haven't seen any polls on who did better in the debate but I can guess what they will all say. The polls from liberal news organizations who have a liberal leaning audience are going to show that Obama won. But I felt that McCain won by a slim margin, and only slim because I realize that those who support Obama probably heard singing angels every time he spoke and felt that he did well.

I noticed a couple of interesting things in this debate in the character of each of the candidates. Let's look at Obama first.

I think he must be using a professional speech coach because he didn't do nearly as much of his usual stuttering that generally precedes anything but a scripted response. When McCain brought up his connections with Ayers and ACORN, Obama was completely dishonest about the nature and depth of those relationships and the nature of ACORN as an organization. Obama once again mentioned Joe Biden's ties to Scranton, Pennsylvania. This is simply an insult to the people of Pennsylvania. You hear more from the Obama campaign about Biden and Pennsylvania than you do about Biden and Delaware. Let's be clear, most people in Pennsylvania had probably never even heard of Joe Biden until he became the VP candidate. So to expect us to just vote for Obama-Biden because of some ancient ties that Biden has with Pennsylvania is insulting.

For McCain's part he did finally bring up Barack's character in front of a national audience but he didn't really go for it with full force and part of that was probably because of time constraints involved with each of the questions. McCain did very well at nailing Obama on a lot of issues but unfortunately for him he has the worst poker face in the world. Every time he nailed Obama on an issue, as soon as he was done speaking he looked very smug and self-satisfied Obama is a lot better at hiding his contempt for John McCain. To his credit I don't think I heard him use the word 'maverick' through the whole debate. If I hear McCain or Palin say the word 'maverick' one more time I think I might puke.

McCain did have a couple of great lines during the debate though. The first one was when he finally called Obama out on trying to make people think he is just like Bush. This probably isn't an exact quote but he said "If you wanted to run against President Bush you should have run for president four years ago." The other great statement from McCain was completely accidental but it was perfect. He misspoke and accidentally called Obama Senator Government. If you really listened to Obama's responses Wednesday night, his answer to almost every question included more government spending and more government involvement in our lives. Senator Government is the perfect name for him. All that he thinks of is more more more government.

Another great name that radio host Michael Savage came up with for Barack Obama was BO. Since it is somehow so offensive to mention his middle name as Hussein and in the tradition of referring to a president by their initials it would have to be BO instead of BHO. So if America is crazy enough to elect Barack Hussein Obama, when he turns out to stink as a president, everyone who had any sense about this guy will say "Well what did you expect? You elected a guy named BO."

Anyway, we've got three more weeks of all of this garbage to go. And then we're gonna get four years of whatever we deserve.