Polemic®

Bush Patsy “Diva” McCain’s silly histrionics scuttled a substantial amount of the usual expectations setting pre-game. Because of this I think that the punditocracy forgot that most undecideds or persuadables, at this point, are people that have not paid a lot of attention to the campaign yet. For these folks, Obama is, reasonably, far newer and ill-defined than he is for the rest of us who have been following the campaign intently for 20 months.

To win then, Obama had to hold his own with Bush Patsy McCain on foreign policy and withstand the “seems presidential” test. He did this, and scored on the economy where Bush Patsy McCain’s war on spending is not as relevant to people struggling with their mortgages as Obama’s note that it is the Conservatron ideology, which Bush Patsy McCain supports, that largely got us into this mess in the first place.

Obama was crisp and confident. McCain was witty and intelligent, but seemed a little grouchy and didactic. I’d have liked Obama to have called Bush Patsy McCain out on his Diva behavior. I think that could have been a knock out blow, but he still got done what he needed to get done: he seems more plausible as President by the hour; the weirder Bush Patsy McCain acts the less plausible he seems — to say nothing of “Brain to Nowhere” Nilap.