So I chose to watch the Canadian federal debate live, and to record the Biden/Palin show for later.
The Canadian debates were interesting, but didn’t really do anything to change my basic opinions. Actually, that’s not true–my respect for Duceppe went up another notch, but it doesn’t matter as long as he’s the head of a separatist party. And, if I were being totally fair, Dion also picked up a couple of points.
My hatred for Harper continues unabated, and I am completely unable to do any kind of unbiased analysis of his performance or how it might play to “undecided” voters.
And while my policy position is closest to the NDP on most issues, my opinion–my strongly negative opinion–of Jack Layton was only reinforced by his performance here. Not only was he the least civil of the panel, but he was also the most transparent in his use of Rovian talking points rather than measured discourse. This is certainly not the first time I’ve found myself desperately missing Alexa. Also, and I believe I’m going to Cato this onto every mention of Layton on this blog, that moustache has to go.
Now it’s on to the US VP debates–although the web pages I was reading during the other debate seem to indicate I’m not going to see Palin crater the way I was hoping.
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