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.
Come on Tova, you're not playing the game. You're supposed to be outraged about Mitt's plan to take away women's reproductive rights, staying in your bedroom, but not paying for what you do in there, and of course repealing your right to equal pay. That was all you (well your demographic target) were supposed to take away from that debate.
Reproductive rights aren't even in my top five. lol If you're old enough and responsible enough to have sex....you should be old enough and responsible enough to pay for contraception.
Any woman that makes this her flagship issue in voting for pres....well, it takes all kinds I guess...but I don't respect it. I think it's a fairly shallow pov.
It's as insulting as saying a guy only thinks with his d*ck.
Oh, wait...
I've always wondered how Barbara Walters managed to break into that industry with such a bad speech impediment. Its not nearly as bad now as it was back in the day. When SNL was actually a funny program they did a skit on Walters, I think it was Gilda Radner who would come on as "Baba Wawa". Those skits were hilarious and probably would be seen as too mean spirited by today's politically correct standards... unless its Sarah Palin, then anything goes.
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.
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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