Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
My debate wrap-up piece for The Guardian 's Comment is free America is now up. Before Barack Obama and John McCain are even introduced, I am struck with wonderment at the staging for the event, which is being held in what appears to be an airtight, windowless bomb shelter gussied up with an ocean of cheap red carpet, a vivid blue wall, one jarringly incongruent purple podium, and risers bought from...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Melissa McEwan: John McCain needed a good performance in the second debate - and he failed badly, sounding mean and dispirited
Vidiot Speak (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
What I did see before I fell asleep after a few, {ahem} strong libations (work has been brutal) is that Obama is so much calmer and cooler and McCain seemed really uncomfortable and wound up, like a little tin soldier held together with rubber bands. Just their body language alone, in the 5 minutes I saw, was so disparate that I knew how it was going to be percieved by the public. And lo and behold,...
Notes from Evil Bender (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
One of the candidates looked informed, dignified, caring and Presidential. The other one looked like a petulant, short-tempered, belligerent child: As Melissa McEwan put it, “Say goodnight, Johnny. It’s President That One to you.”
Mickeleh's Soapbox (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Before last night's presidential debate, Obama had a clear lead in both national polls, and state-by-state electoral votes. In order to change that, McCain would have had to deliver a breakthrough. He didn't. If you favored him, he did well enough for you to tout his victory. But if you didn't, nothing he said or did would have flipped you into his column. Best line of all is from Melissa McEwan :...
