Thursday, October 2, 2008

A brief summary of the vice presidential debate

Palin, the Stepford candidate: "OMG! Taxes!? Meeting with foreign leaders!? We needz oilz!! We am Maverick! Stop living the past, old man! Only John McCain can save us!!"
Biden, the fumbling pitbull: "I'm an average Joe. Srsly. I can even name places that sound non-elitist. Also, look at these voting records. Now I am going to try to futilely bat down your arguments as you go off on a Gish Gallop."
Both: "We shouldn't call it 'marriage' and why can't we all just get along? Also: Is-ra-el, Is-ra-el! WOOO!"
Me: "Grrrrraaaggghhhh...why do I torture myself like this!?"

On the plus side, Palin didn't look like a complete idiot, and might have actually won the debate. On the downside, she managed to just dominate conversation to obsess on some bizarre arguments involving as many talking points as she could each time. Biden held his own at the beginning, and didn't fall apart at the end, but he definitely let Palin have her way with the subject of discourse. He was on the defensive most of the time, and seemed to be angry on many occasions when pushing forth a rebuttall. He did pretty well, but...I dunno, was probably unconvincing to people who want to believe. I so desperately want to believe...

4 comments:

mac said...

Are you poking around in my brain?


Nah, this is much more lucid than my thoughts.

What about us folks who find nothing in either party's pick?

I know the third party option is there, but really, does anyone believe they have a chance at doing anything more than playing the spoiler role?

I'm not really liking this one...I need some guidance - but none is there....... would I accept it if it was !?

Asylum Seeker said...

Flip a coin, vote for the lesser of two evils, assassinate one of the candidates and hope for a better one, all serve as viable options for helping with the little two "flavors of bullshit" party system. Voting for a third party candidate? Well...let's just say that it is about as productive as not voting at all. Some people argue that they might serve as nice protest votes. At first I was thinking that they would be inconsequential, and people wouldn't care. But, with enough disgruntled people out airing their grievances by voting for someone who better represents them instead of one of the two "sure things", it might actually make them fleetingly contemplate adjusting things so that this segment of society will jump on their ship, or get a ship of their own. But, considering the nature of politics in this country, that is far more optimistic than anyone who despises both parties enough to make that protest could ever afford to be.

Saint Brian the Godless said...

I think McCain is in thrall to Yog-Sothoth, meself...

Cool blog, dude.

Asylum Seeker said...

Thank you kindly. Funny that you should mention being controlled by a member of the Cthulhu Mythos, because I think that he bears a striking resemblance to this guy (I'll put the image on the mainpage).
http://www.tentacules.net/toc/toc/pagedyn.php?toc_action=jdc_recherche&jeu=mythos

Turns out that this particular short, dumpy white guy is actually a shoggoth lord in disguise. Really, the details behind Mr. Shiny make the comparison even more...interesting...

http://www.arcdream.com/godlike/dossier.php?id=38