Politics at Night
Hopefully everyone who reads this caught the debate on TV last night. I watched it in what felt like a small Manhattan studio apartment, but, in retrospect, it's probably one of the bigger studios I've seen. A good reminder of why I like Brooklyn. I do recommend watching future debates on C-SPAN as last night the station showed Jim Lehr giving the university students in the audience quite the talking-to in regards to total silence during the debates. He also blew his nose right before the thing started, which humanized him just a bit.
Whichever side of the debate you fall on, I hope everyone agrees it was an embarrassment as an American to see our commander in chief barely able to verbalize his support for the war he initiated. His only justification for it was that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power. The world would be better off without a lot of dictators in power, but since when do we go around toppling dictators like sandcastles, especially without a plan to not throw the country into total chaos?
Some links for your pleasure
MSNBC: Vote for the "winner" in debates
New York Times: Debate Analysis
CNN: Debating the First Debate
BBC: Iraq dominates the great debate
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I've been keeping my mouth shut concerning politics at the new job. It's always a bad idea to discuss politics in the office when you're new until you've gauged the everyone's opinions.
At lunch today I went to the pizzeria right below our office. The resturant owner asked my boss if he watched the debate. My boss said, "Kerry creamed Bush!" Then the owner looked a little distressed and stated "Nah, I think Bush had it.. If you were on a ship in the middle of an ocean, would you change captains? I mean... the ship is underway!" I responded with, "Well, think of this analogy... If you're in the middle of the ocean and you see an ice burg straight in front of the ship and the captain is too stubborn to change course, would you not want someone else to take charge?".. "How about, he refuses to admit the scope of the ice burg, saying it doesn't look that huge from here.."
By this point most of the resturant was listening and then started to chuckle. The owner took it well and said, "we all have our opinions". My boss joked and said, "I guess most of us are just crazy liberals"
Here's an image that reminds me of Bush "The Great Debater".
http://pages.prodigy.net/bogo/times/archive/deer.jpg