Debate #2

Are we there yet?

Published on October 17, 2012 By Tova7 In Politics

Last night, I didn't hear anything unexpected between the two candidates.

The news maker? Candy Crowley backing up the president during the debate, and then pulling a mea culpa after. But personally I wasn't shocked by that. I think Americans should expect it. She said before millions BO was right, Romney wrong. Then AFTER the debate said she erred. Oops.

Kind of like running a front page story with errors, and putting the correction in the obits two weeks later.

I'm sure it is different for everyone, but the one thing that really disturbed me? BO's answers on Libya.

On a cerebral level I understood he skipped national security briefings to play basketball, or golf, or go to fund raisers. And I recognize Jimmy Carter (arguably the worst president ever until now) didn't leave the white house during the hostage crisis....not to golf at least...

But last night I saw BO's face as he spoke about it. There was no passion, no burning desire to make things right. Honestly, I don't think he believes it's a big deal.

Sure, he tried to scold Romney about playing politics...but it came across as rehearsed, insincere (knowing what he did during and after the attacks), and frankly SCARY.

Makes me wonder how he would have handled 9-11 the first go round. We'd probably still be talking about it. (Between fund raising and basketball games of course.)

The soft ball questions about birth control and guns. Come on. Really? What the hell were those people thinking? Who approved these stupid questions?

Ugh.

All in all, I didn't learn anything new. And frankly, I'd like my 90 minutes back now.

Comments (Page 3)

Tova7

on Oct 21, 2012

Anthony R

reply 30

I've always wondered how Barbara Walters managed to break into that industry with such a bad speech impediment.

Tom B also has a speech impediment. There are quite a few people in the news (on CNN there are a couple people) with speech issues.

I have a theory about that. It goes something like this....people with speech problems generally take speech therapy to overcome it (my son did). If they took broadcast journalism in college then they also received speech therapy of a sort....in each of these instances, one of the tools used to correct the impediment is public speaking, pulling radio gigs in college, etc. I think they get so used to doing it, a profession as a talking head seems natural.

Having said that, I find it distracting and won't listen to anyone on tv with a lisp or speech impediment. Drives me bonkers.

Dr Guy

on Oct 31, 2012

Interesting theory on speech impediments, and yes, one would never know that Tom B had one. But Baba Wawa's apparently was never corrected.

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