Don't Live There
I suppose that the worst thing about the redistricting a few years back is that I no longer live in district two for the congressional races here. Too bad, it seems like these have been ... and are again the best, well actually most interesting races
After watching the "forum" tonight, a few things were very evident to me:
"Young" did better than "Old" in the format, yet has the charisma of hmmm ... J. Kerry, comes to mind, in other words -- bland. Yes, handsome cannot save you if you are bland. Seeming more articulate than a 80-something is really not saying much, if you're bland.
What to say about "Old" -- you know, I think that there are other qualities of effectiveness besides I can speak on TV better than you -- a major basis for the election of our current gov, mind you. However, I think working behind the scenes in congress is a much more important criteria than speaking decent on TV
"Old" looked old last night, and "Young" looked well ... less old. That's about it, it was about as boring an hour of TV, I've seen in a long time.
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In a related note, the commercial that "old" put out this week, to compare his effectiveness to "young" was ridiculously high on the unintentional comedy scale. I mean, it was basically, pick me ... i am the slightly less ineffective one -- I mean, those stats cited ... both of them are more than ineffective on the basis of the measurables, they appear to be incompetent according to the statistics. And the comparisons of "old" to other name democrats ... I couldn't laugh more, when you see names like JK, BO, all "presidential" candidate material supposedly
Ehhh, I don't live there ... that's good, I guess