Cedric
10-13-2012, 06:48 AM
Those pesky o'l presidential level debates never really matter . . . unless one candidate is clearly much better than the other. It's now official [well no it's not, but that sounds good] that Obama gave the worst debate performance in the brief history of sitting presidents facing off against an opponent before camera lenses. I suspect that when historians finish quibbling over the definition of 'bad' however a few years down the line that Obama's rendition of an empty chair sitting forlorn and clueless before a thoroughly prepared and competent Romney smoothly hitting all the debate numbers will indeed win for Obama that singular historic honor.
Think about that for a moment; a president who was given a Nobel Peace Prize merely for winning an election and a president touted as a Great Communicator merely for showing up for an election may have lost an election because he wasn't a Great Anything at all when all was said and done . . . and when during that first debate Barack Obama displayed himself before the nation and the world as that famous emperor of children's fables sans political clothing. Now that I call that getting avalanched by a mountain top full of cold-arsed karma.
Then there was this week's debate between the pair of running mates known as the Gaffe-Master and Kid Wonk. You want to know how badly Obama really did the previous week? Gaffe-Master Joe Biden merely by producing an effective draw with Kid Wonk actually succeeded in giving countless Obama supporters -- up to that time anxiously holding their breaths in awful anticipation -- collective Bidengasms as they jubilantly inflated the Biden/Ryan debate draw into a massive and over-the-top resounding win for their vice president . . . and temporarily forgot in the process that vice presidential debates don't actually matter unless one of the participants utterly blows it in front of the camera and that Paul Ryan definitely did not blow it and that in fact they had not been watching Barack Obama perform against Paul Ryan.
I base the above on direct observations of hysterical Obama supporters clogging a certain liberal e-zine's commentary sections with insanely orgasmic praises of all things Gaffe-Master in general after Thursday night's passion play in which -- yep -- CNN and AP ended up crediting the overall win to Ryan after all.
So these presidential level debates definitely do matter when one or the other of the candidates [or a running mate] utterly blows the darn thing before the nation and the world; but realistically, nobody in-the-know expects either Romney or Obama to blow the remaining two debates. One of the candidates may get the better of the other on their presentations of on camera personality or with their handling of pre-scripted zingers, but unless something like the Libyan issue becomes an unexpected and decisive wedge issue then effectively the remaining two presidential debates . . . really won't matter all that much.
Weird huh?
Think about that for a moment; a president who was given a Nobel Peace Prize merely for winning an election and a president touted as a Great Communicator merely for showing up for an election may have lost an election because he wasn't a Great Anything at all when all was said and done . . . and when during that first debate Barack Obama displayed himself before the nation and the world as that famous emperor of children's fables sans political clothing. Now that I call that getting avalanched by a mountain top full of cold-arsed karma.
Then there was this week's debate between the pair of running mates known as the Gaffe-Master and Kid Wonk. You want to know how badly Obama really did the previous week? Gaffe-Master Joe Biden merely by producing an effective draw with Kid Wonk actually succeeded in giving countless Obama supporters -- up to that time anxiously holding their breaths in awful anticipation -- collective Bidengasms as they jubilantly inflated the Biden/Ryan debate draw into a massive and over-the-top resounding win for their vice president . . . and temporarily forgot in the process that vice presidential debates don't actually matter unless one of the participants utterly blows it in front of the camera and that Paul Ryan definitely did not blow it and that in fact they had not been watching Barack Obama perform against Paul Ryan.
I base the above on direct observations of hysterical Obama supporters clogging a certain liberal e-zine's commentary sections with insanely orgasmic praises of all things Gaffe-Master in general after Thursday night's passion play in which -- yep -- CNN and AP ended up crediting the overall win to Ryan after all.
So these presidential level debates definitely do matter when one or the other of the candidates [or a running mate] utterly blows the darn thing before the nation and the world; but realistically, nobody in-the-know expects either Romney or Obama to blow the remaining two debates. One of the candidates may get the better of the other on their presentations of on camera personality or with their handling of pre-scripted zingers, but unless something like the Libyan issue becomes an unexpected and decisive wedge issue then effectively the remaining two presidential debates . . . really won't matter all that much.
Weird huh?