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I could not bear to watch the second and third debates in their entirety. After a few minutes, I switched both of them off. Al Gore is so obnoxious, bullying and condenscending that I get really angry and vexed watching him. Bush tends to make me nervous, causing me to fear a complete breakdown at any time. Bush's first appearances in yesterday's townhall debates really made me fearful of a debacle. First he laughed too much when the moderator corrected himself saying that his reference to a Gore quote that Bush was a bumbler occurred at a press conference instead of a commercial. Then when he tried to say something respectful about the late Governor Carnahan who was killed in a plane crash, he was completely incoherent. Judging from the news coverage of the rest of the debate, however, it appears that Bush survived the rest of the night without any major miscue. Browsing throught the news coverages reinforces my belief in the absolute imperative of defeating Gore, who more and more represents pure evil, in my mind. His actions during the debates really show him for the shallow, obnoxious bully that he is. Andrew Sullivan in Salon wonderfully describes the way Gore acted during the debate: Gore cheated. He walked around to gain advantage, he ran over his time, he violated the rules which bar the candidates from asking direct questions of each other and he often used the questions as a platform to go off on another spiel. This was really irritating. I bet a lot of viewers objected to these tactics. They seemed calculated and arch, and played into deeper worries about his character. The Washington Post today included a column by Michael Kelly that pinpoints more substantively the problem with Gore's character. Kelly describes the revalation of a secret 1995 agreement between Gore and then-Russian Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. Gore agreed to allow Russia to secretly supply arms to Iran violating the 1992 Iran-Iraw Arms Nonprofiliferation Act (hypocritically sponsored by Gore) in exchange for a promise that the suppy would end by 1999. The Russians did not live up to this bargain and incredibly extracted a promise not to reveal the arrangement to Congress. A secret agreement that allowed arms to be sent to Iran, in violation of an Act of Congress. How come in the Reagan administration, this sort of thing led to a major scandal and the appointment of a special prosecutor, but, with Gore, nobody cares? There are so many signs of how dishonest Gore is and what a devasting impact a Gore presidency would have on the country. His duplicity is not a trivial matter of concern only to arm-chair psychiatrists but rather a warning sign that he could plunge the government into yet another consitutional crisis and wreak havoc around the world. Please, my fellow Americans, don't elect him! |