The LD (Lincoln-Douglas) Dare
H. Clinton, a member of the gender that scientists have determined has 30 percent more verbal capacity than males, understandably has challenged B. Obama to yet another debate. If held it would be the 22nd in an already overlong marathon of such events, though only the fifth between just the two of them.
As a fellow member of that other, more verbally challenged half of the species, I don't blame Obama for being averse to the idea. But that isn't because of the Philadelphia debate. People who are aching to see him fall have been trying their best to characterize that debate as a ringing failure for him, when actually he appears to have done as well as was to expected since he was the victim of a gang attack, and that event was a fiasco instead for the two moderator simpletons.
Recognizing that, Clinton proposes a debate in the Lincoln-Douglas style instead, a more loosely organized affair with the huge virtue of having no so-called moderators asking questions. Instead the two of them would just proceed with equal time, volleying and counter-volleying, in which we can expect that the big issues would be discussed throughout, and with civility that wouldn't otherwise be the case.
I think that despite being tired of debates -- and who in their right mind and in his situation wouldn't be -- Obama should consider taking a chance and going for the lady's suggestion. The advantage would be that it would induce some real fear in the Republicans that they would find hard to conceal -- a situation always devoutly to be desired.
If H. Obama didn't decline such a challenge, J. McCain, a man with a proven taste for pugnacity, would be even less able to refrain from picking up the same sort of gauntlet in the general election, after which his chances in such a debate against either of the two much more nimble-minded Democrats would strongly resemble those of a bull in a corrida.
All of us, especially on reaching a certain age, have to do a certain amount of backtracking, but McCain has probably never seen the year when he hasn't had to do an inordinate amount. It appears that his instinctive first choices in deeds and words too often are the calamitous ones, and that had to have had something with his being ranked so low in his Annapolis class and with having been so snakebitten when it came to bringing back safely the U.S. Navy's highly expensive aircraft, and with being put in solitary confinement for so long in the prison camp and in a comparable state on the more malfeasant side of the aisle in the U.S. Senate.
Recognizing this and aware that the majority of the moderators who would be proposed by the networks and the other groups that would sponsor the debates would be in the Republicans' pocket, everybody on McCain's side would be at pains to persuade him not to accept that "LD" dare. And that perception, at least, would work to the Democrats' advantage.
As a fellow member of that other, more verbally challenged half of the species, I don't blame Obama for being averse to the idea. But that isn't because of the Philadelphia debate. People who are aching to see him fall have been trying their best to characterize that debate as a ringing failure for him, when actually he appears to have done as well as was to expected since he was the victim of a gang attack, and that event was a fiasco instead for the two moderator simpletons.
Recognizing that, Clinton proposes a debate in the Lincoln-Douglas style instead, a more loosely organized affair with the huge virtue of having no so-called moderators asking questions. Instead the two of them would just proceed with equal time, volleying and counter-volleying, in which we can expect that the big issues would be discussed throughout, and with civility that wouldn't otherwise be the case.
I think that despite being tired of debates -- and who in their right mind and in his situation wouldn't be -- Obama should consider taking a chance and going for the lady's suggestion. The advantage would be that it would induce some real fear in the Republicans that they would find hard to conceal -- a situation always devoutly to be desired.
If H. Obama didn't decline such a challenge, J. McCain, a man with a proven taste for pugnacity, would be even less able to refrain from picking up the same sort of gauntlet in the general election, after which his chances in such a debate against either of the two much more nimble-minded Democrats would strongly resemble those of a bull in a corrida.
All of us, especially on reaching a certain age, have to do a certain amount of backtracking, but McCain has probably never seen the year when he hasn't had to do an inordinate amount. It appears that his instinctive first choices in deeds and words too often are the calamitous ones, and that had to have had something with his being ranked so low in his Annapolis class and with having been so snakebitten when it came to bringing back safely the U.S. Navy's highly expensive aircraft, and with being put in solitary confinement for so long in the prison camp and in a comparable state on the more malfeasant side of the aisle in the U.S. Senate.
Recognizing this and aware that the majority of the moderators who would be proposed by the networks and the other groups that would sponsor the debates would be in the Republicans' pocket, everybody on McCain's side would be at pains to persuade him not to accept that "LD" dare. And that perception, at least, would work to the Democrats' advantage.
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