{"id":2536,"date":"2008-10-15T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T02:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2008-10-15T23:15:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T04:15:50","slug":"contempt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/contempt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"C·O·N·T·E·M·P·T…"},"content":{"rendered":"

pick based on facial expressions<\/sup><\/div>\n

It’s about the only thing you’ve got to go on in tonight’s debate. John McCain is so dominating the mike with character assassination and really outlandish claims that there’s little else to see but his bullyism and sneers. This time, he’s replaced "my friends" with "Senator Obama" as his perseverative phrase for the evening. I have no way to evaluate what’s happening here, because my visceral reaction to McCain’s C·O·N·T·E·M·P·T<\/strong><\/font> is so strong that it’s hard to even listen to what he’s saying anymore.<\/p>\n

 
the face of a bully<\/sup><\/div>\n

From the livingroom: "What an asshole!" "He’s so contentious!" "John McCain is a bully!" [I don’t think she likes him very much]. <\/p>\n

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I don’t like John McCain very much either. But in this debate, it’s his self righteous, arrogant, sarcasm more than anything. He’s talking to Barack Obama, his clear intellectual and tempermental superior, as if he shouldn’t even be allowed to run. Yet, for the life of me, the only thing I can ferret out about his campaign is that he thinks very little of anything Obama says. He’s attacked every answer that Obama has given, but his own answers are vague and confusing, often in response to something in his own life. I’m going to be interested to see if the pundits, less intrinsically biased and perhaps less sensitive to McCain’s hatefulness, are able to be clear about what he’s proposing. Were I Obama, I’d have trouble not counterattacking McCain’s way of being, or walking out.<\/div>\n

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But as to "who won?" I haven’t a clue. I don’t see being a bully, or being contentious as very presidential. But, I expect McCain’s supporters would see the same things as forceful, assertive, or even passionate. I know that people talk about political campaigns using the term "fight." But this one seemed to me to be in the range of melee, like those disgusting fights on  high number channels where they kick, slug, wrestle, and bleed. At least these guys don’t have tattoos [that show].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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