Second Presidential Debate 2008

I am now poignantly reminded why I was never a big John McCain supporter. Last night he sounded like a liberal trying every now and then to talk conservative. He expressed himself poorly and incompletely, often repeating verbatim the trite phrases that became increasingly irritating in the first debate (Okay, John, we heard what you said about earmarks. Move on.). His attacks on Obama fell flat as Obama, always in full control of the debate, adroitly brushed them aside while striding the floor in graceful, self-assured, unruffled, above-the-fray, quasi-presidential dignity. John McCain has now succeeded in kiboshing every bit of good will and hopeful expectation he had acquired from the Convention in St. Paul. His only hope is that enough people will be unwilling to vote for Obama and heartened by the idea that they might get to see and hear more of Sarah Palin. But that is an increasingly thin hope. If a man can't win a race on his own virtues and his own merits, then he doesn't deserve to win. What an utter disappointment!