I Tried

I tried to watch the last debate.  Just as I tried to watch the others.

I came in (late) just as Obama finished answering a question I didn’t hear.  McCain wanted to rebutt, and the moderator gave him thirty seconds.

And he lied.  Again and again!  When has McCain ever opposed Bush’s conducting of the war in Iraq?  When even Bush was abandoning his failed strategies, McCain stood by them!  Did he fight the torture fight to the end?  Was he the first to bring the subject of climate change to the Senate floor?  (yes, he co-sponsored the first bill–that’s NOT what he said.)

If McCain had won the nomination in 2000, I would have voted for him.  I’m a registered Democrat, but only because I wanted to be able to vote in primaries–I’m probably farther left than the Democrats really encompass.  But I would have voted for him.  I thought I knew him, and I trusted him.

Now?  Either he’s sold his soul to win the White House, or he was never the man I thought he was.

I had to turn it off.

(and, btw–wtf?  How is “decent family man” a contradiction of “Arab?”  How about “no, ma’am, his father was Kenyan?”  Since that’s all that “Arab” addresses–ethnicity.  Not morals.  Not beliefs.)

God help us all.