Mockery and Derision

So as hopefully all of you know, the first debate is finished. And if you didn’t watch it, please log off this site, resign your citizenship, and leave the nation. You obviously don’t care enough about this country to make the massive sacrifice of sitting on your couch and drinking soda while other people debate a future you care little about.

But anyway, the debate. I found it inconclusive, with neither candidate getting a clear win out of it.

But it shouldn’t have been that way. Obama should have gotten a clear win out of this one, on a topic where he really needs to make headway: national security.

We saw again tonight what is both a blessing and a curse for the Obama campaign. Senator Obama is a brilliant man. Graduate of Columbia and Harvard. President of the Harvard Law Review. And often times, he has a tendency to be too smart, and make arguments that are too cerebral and thought out, and not base 0r aggressive enough. Which is exactly what you don’t want out of a candidate on debate night.

McCain is in no way hindered by the same problem. No-one will ever say that the man who graduated in the bottom 1% of his class at Annapolis is too though out or intelligent. And he has a tendency Obama clearly doesn’t have: McCain loves to fight, merely for the sake of fighting.

Time and again tonight we saw McCain distort the truth, distort positions where he and Obama agree just so he could take a shot at him. He called Obama naive, inexperienced, not aggressive enough against Russia, and lacking in judgement.

And instead of attacking right back, instead of calling McCain out as a liar and a fraud, Obama made great, shockingly boring arguments in retort.

This isn’t what you want. We need more fight out of our guy, more aggression and derision. Think back about all the great debate qoutes you’ve ever heard. Most of them came from Reagan. And they were aggressive and humorous, and they stuck the knife in because that’s what needed to be done.

Why stick the knife into McCain? BECAUSE IT”S FUN! why not? He’s doing it to us, right and left, and it’s the only thing keeping him in this race. Why not jam it back at him?

Personally, I love making fun of McCain. I love hacking away at a man who wants to keep my friends dying in Iraq, who wants to ruin my family’s economics, and deny my country the policies it needs to move forward. He’s proven himself to be a liar, a hypocrite, and a phony. He’s a veteran for God’s sake, and loves to cloak himself in the mantle of veterans who he wont stand up and support. So when he says he’ll support veterans, says he “loves them” like he did tonight, I need a candidate to stay strong and say “NO YOU DON’T!. You don’t have a record of standing up for the very veterans you say you support. When every veterans group in this country has declared you an inferior advocate for their needs, you don’t get to say you support them. I DO.”

That’s what we need. We need an aggressive candidate who will call our opponent out for his lies and deceit. And we need it now.  

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