I’ve managed to drag my happy ass out of bed at six in the morning two days in a row. I’m proud of myself.
I was going to wait on making a post about the democratic debate because I don’t like getting into that bullshit early in the morning but I’m in the kind of mood where I’d rather get it out of the way first. Survivor was on last night so I missed the first hour and frankly Survivor is much more important to me right now than which one of these bozos manage to win the mantle of presidency. James would make a perfectly fine president, and anyone besides Courtney would make a fine Vice President since they don’t do anything anyway.
CNN has a better debate format than MSNBC does. Regular people ask questions, so besides one planted question at the end asking Hillary Clinton about diamonds and pearls, we didn’t get any goofy moments like Tim Russert spending the last five minutes asking candidate about alien invasions. They seem to put the candidates on stage in a random order, though I wonder if it was something more than fate that put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton next to each other. That’s always a huge negative to me with debates, where they’ll put the media darlings in the middle and put everyone else off to the side. MSNBC does this all the time, and Tim Russert on Scarborough this morning went so far as to come out and admit they did it because they want the focus to be on the big players. Alright, then why bother letting Biden, Richards, Kucinich and Dodd even participate? You just admitted you’re not going to give them a fair shake. I hate that. I don’t care for Clinton, I barely care about Obama and I don’t care for Edwards. That means I’m f***ed because I don’t know anything about the other four. Granted, I’m internet savvy and if I do enough digging I could learn more about them, but maybe I want to hear more from their own mouths.
With that said, CNN gave them more opportunities to speak than MSNBC usually does. I still like Biden and surprisingly Kucinich, at least from what I know about them from the debates. Still don’t know enough about Dodd–he doesn’t really stand out to me. He’s that guy that you always remember last and that’s never a good thing. Richardson doesn’t come across like a leader to me. Edwards seems too fake. Obama’s too shaky and I still think he’s prone to pressure from other people. Clinton comes across like a politician to me, and I realize they’re all politicians but she’s so cookie cutter that I can’t stand it. I can picture her backstage coming up with her big one liners before the debate and determining what would be the best thing to say to garner more votes from the right people. A professional politician. I detest that. I want an ordinary person that’s going to tell me what they believe in regardless of whether or not I like it or not. That’s one of the reasons I can somewhat dig a Ron Paul, because at least he’s honest even though I don’t agree with some of what he says. Don’t lie to me or play with me like I’m a pawn.
I’m not done with Clinton yet. Hillary was asked about her performance at the previous MSNBC debate where she couldn’t decide whether or not she was for or against giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. Apparently, she’s said elsewhere and she “Wasn’t at her best that night”. That pissed me off so much and shines a spotlight on everything I’m saying about her. Why do you need to be at your best to answer a yes or no question? When you’re president, is there a certain time of the day we need to reach you where you’ll make better decisions than another time? Are you more effective in the afternoon? Do you just get too sleepy at night to answer yes or no questions? That’s the shittiest excuse I’ve heard for something in a long time. Then some four weeks later after consulting her advisers and determining which course of action will get her the most votes, Hillary says that she’s against giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. Then she attacks Obama for being for it. She’s lost me at this point. She’s going to be the next president and I’d much rather have her in there than Giuliani, and she’s going to be a whole hell of lot better for this country than Bush was, but I’ve got zero faith in her to really pick this country out of the rut it’s in and turn it around.
I didn’t think Obama did a terrible job but the folks that actually analyze this stuff for a living said he failed to capitalize on the previous missteps Clinton made at the last debate. They’re all saying Clinton was on fire but I just don’t see it. I guess I’m looking for something a little different than them.
I’m leaning towards Brian as the write in vote come the actual presidential election. Stewie would get us into too many wars I figure. Then again Brian drinks all the time … maybe I will vote in James from Survivor. Decisions decisions.
