it was a loaded, dumbfuck question, but i was a bit disappointed with the reply.

i would have liked for him to laugh and say how inappropriate the use of the medieval word 'evil' to describe a whole country in such a jejune, blanket way. then i would have liked him to say how russia, like america, is trying to pursue its interests, and show some respect for how they are back, and not the failed state reagan so idiotically condemned with his foolish comment.

obama fell fully into brokaw's stupid frame, too bad...

the only time mccain showed more shrewdness during the debate was when he aced that same question, saying 'maybe', thereby keeping his base, while not falling into a simple binary trap, as obvious a gotcha question as the old saw 'when did you stop beating your wife?'

for the most part obama filled the presidential shoes better than mccain, whose clenched body language and rigid, robotic moves set off obama's easy fluidity by contrast.

obama has a spacey edge quite often, with the long 'er's' and 'ums' before getting his stride, leaving one hanging a few milliseconds...will he fluff it or not?

the only slip i caught was when he was talking about the opportunity america gave him to go to the world's best schools even though he was poor, when he said 'country' when he meant 'world'.

very minor PN... totally harmless.

when i think he's been campaigning for 2 years pretty much non-stop, the stamina and sang-froid obama's exhibiting in this pressure-cooker election are as stellar an example of 'grace under pressure' i've ever seen.
mccain doesn't even come close as presidential material, tho' for such an old coot, he's doing a better job than i would have expected, frankly. unfortunately the fact that he's not as braindead as gwb is not entirely reassuring, as mccain has an even scarier form of fanaticism glittering in his eyes, replacing gwb's puzzled, beyond-clueless stare.

he's a lot less crusader-for-jesus-fake-redeemed sinner, but a fuck of a lot more militaristic for the whole sick edgy thrill.

many of us mention how much we think obama might do a sudden change after inauguration...i wonder if mccain might too, if 'selected', turning away from gwb's coattails and carving a new form of more bipartisan republicanism, less lobbyist- and earmark-influenced.

only a very faint hope, that, very audacious...

...especially considering his fawning fondness for the nuclear power solution for america's energy independence, where sounded really moronic, with his 'happy voice' on, exhorting his countrymen to cover the land with nuke-plants and the shores with drilling platforms with the same jolly tone a leader might use promising his people a plethora of fairs and festivals for their endless edification and entertainment.

whoopee! a 3-mile island on every skyline!

dead, oily pelicans on every beach...

this is the change he's offering, this is the great vision he's humping the leg of power to attain, and it's a sorry sight, once i move out of 'detached observer' mode...

sorry for the ramble...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~