Sarah Alaska jump into the stew
sticks and carrots are good for you
they’re good for the bull and good for the bear
they’re good for the clout and good for the few

Please tell me why Empire is lookin pale Sarah
like the low hangin balls of a moose that’s stuck
or a prodded bear just across the strait
tell me straight or jump into the stew Sarah

Be thankful you’re part of the chosen too
like the testy fallen Johnny angel flier
who can take the heat
and nuke the many for the few
to add some spice to the Lieberman beat

So Sarah Alaska jump into the stew
a stick for the many
a carrot for you
a stone for the soup

but….

Save a trophy button
for the six star troop

McCain for all his insanity and outright lies, which were too many to count, came across as much more folksy — and I haven’t checked the polls but did he win the red states? I would think so. He came across as a grandfather, not the senile one, but one who would patiently explain to you what he’s learned over the years.

Obama came across as a fancy-pants, which made it especially egregious that he didn’t attack McCain’s lies with some semblance of passion and real facts. If Obama was going to come across as the young ‘un a little too big for his britches, he should have owned the role. The debate was his to lose, and lose he did.

I used to think that Obama was intelligent, and as editor of the Harvard Law Review he must have some talent as a debater — why didn’t he use it? Obama didn’t have to come off as agro, just passionate.

Instead it was like sitting in a classroom listening to your most boring and pompous teacher ever, and not being allowed to scream out, “You’re wrong!” Because every time Obama congratulated McCain, to my recollection, what McCain had actually just said was wrong, so Obama was compounding the lie.

Obama needs to appeal to Joe Six-Pack, and he doesn’t. But it doesn’t help that he didn’t challenge McCain on all the BS McCain spouted.

Why the in world does he need to do that? Will that win your vote, Give Peas A Chance?

How do you know that he even has any anger, or, for that matter, intelligence?

What I saw of the debate was worthless fluff, confirming my inclination to view the debating form as an empty rhetorical exercise and worthless.

Given that it was fluff, however, there is no question, from what I saw, that Obama “won” the match, at least partly by being calm and collected, relaxed, and in control of the various factoids that the media requires a show of competency in.

On the other hand, I can’t image how anything said by either party was worth even the small time I spent watching it.

Obama reminds me a bit of Cassius Clay a.k.a. Muhammad Ali in his floating butterfly mode.

Does he have a sting? I haven’t seen it. He seems to be much more of a dancer and a jabber.

But perhaps I have hit on the wrong figure, and it is all, like most of Washington, now more like bad ballet.