OMG The Debate!

It’s on! The debate is on! And it’s on tonight!

Pardon my enthusiasm. We were actually planning to put the furniture back into our room after having the carpet stretched. But I just don’t know if I can split my attention like that.

What do you think? Bed in the same place, or against the opposite wall? She thought to put it at an angle with the TV in the opposite corner, and I can make a little chill-out nook by the window behind the headboard: chair, bookshelf, lamp. Not that I’ll actually use it. I’d only use it when she’s asleep, and once she’s asleep ANY NOISE AT ALL awakens her as if to a declaration of war. But still. Large room. Worth a try.

Oh yeah, and the debate could be on while we do it. Sort of like watching football. Look up when there’s cheering.

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What do I think? I think Obama is a smart and thoughtful man, and McCain a man of action. There are un-Presidential risks to both, and Presidential benefits too. I also think the debates are a bad idea. You know, until 1976 there weren’t any, with the famous exception of 1960. Have any of the debates you’ve seen given you any insight into the Presidential quality of any candidate? Not me. We find out who’s glib and who isn’t, who thinks on their feet fast with respect to a domestic audience, who’s encyclopedic and who had to cram. Then a crowd of self-important pundits with crossing agendas declare who “won” according to obscure and thoroughly irrelevant style points. None of that helps me at all.

But then, Coolidge was more my style so WTF do I know.

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Well, it gives me a reason to leave work “early” (sad that in my biz, before six is “early”). It’d be fun to watch it at a bar. But I don’t hang out at bars, I don’t have any barfly friends, and I’m afraid to pick the wrong bar and wind up having to endure a load of cheering when a candidate says something crowd-pleasing but stupid. So we’ll just click it on at home and reload our bedroom and prepare to cringe. I really hope the guy I can’t help leaning towards doesn’t blow it. At least the veep “debate” will be pre-loaded with low expectations. Looking forward to that.