You are right Ted….Old (very old) school/New school…good one!!!!

Thanks mrmb, and I concur with you as well…..great feedback! See you and everyone else at the finish line…...!

Hi Marie, I understand you contemptuous analysis of the “roast”, and of course you as well as anyone else are totally entitled to your point. My response is simply that I understand your point and view, however I would ask you, as a voter who supported Hilary to do as she herself is doing…..vote for Senator Obama….vote for “real change”.

Marie as you well know, these ugly remarks and rhetoric by the McCain campaign is yet again a “fine” example of why we so dearly need “change”....please try to see it in that light. Running for the president of the U.S. is…I am sorry to say….a contest that is at times deplorable, strict and harsh”, unlike any other contest. I felt they each had to be there, if for nothing else it is a show of leadership….if you cannot sit with your enemy…how can you be really the master of your actions.  Senator Clinton as well showed “leadership and “real grace” by being present at the event. Yes it does get personal (I do not see Obama or McCain “ever” being real friends).

As for the jokes….I feel Obama was saying subtly again that these remarks about him by the McCain campaign is simply…..ludicrous! The jokes are again just a reminder of how far we have come and how far my sister…we still have to go.  Again it is just my thoughts and I wanted you to know that this is one person/blogger who not only loves communicating my own opinions and thoughts, but as well I love to listen…..thanks for your feedback.

John McCain had the funnier lines last night, but his jokes couldn’t hide the inexplicable animosity he feels toward his opponent. McCain was a high-strung young man long before he disappointed his father, Admiral John McCain Jr., with his dismal academic performance at the Naval Academy. Graduating 894th in his class of 899 midshipmen made him even more insecure. His short, stocky frame was well-suited to the cramped cockpit of a jet fighter, but it didn’t help him live up to the imposing image he needed, so he over-compensated for it by being physically tough and taking risks, especially when he flew. At the Academy, he had been a boxer and wrestler who was often at odds with superior officers. When you put this kind of A-type personality into cruel captivity for five years, take away all of his dignity and torture him into betraying his country’s Code of Conduct, it’s going to do some serious sychological damage. In my opinion, McCain shows all the symptoms of someone suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His manic body language, with constantly clinched fists and jutting thumbs, rapidly blinking eyes, tightly clinched jaw and grimace-like smile are physical manifestations of psychological stress. McCain has a well-earned reputation in the Senate as being ill-tempered and profane, and his inability to control his emotions was painfully evident in the last debate. It is my belief that John McCain’s erratic choices during his campaign have been an expression of his emotional duress. Even some of his long-time supporters have described him as being “tightly coiled.” Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat or Independent, you have to be somewhat concerned about a man with these issues being put in charge of our country at such a fragile time. Yes, John McCain is a fighter. The problem is that he has been fighting all his life and doesn’t know when to stop.

I thought Obama did a great and hilarious job of “roasting” himself…very funny. I felt as well McCain did a good job and had some “funny” comments. I concur with Obama in that it definitely shows strength in furthering the “perfecting of our union”, when both candidates can come together for such an event, even though they are in a “heated” battle.

As an Obama supported, I am asking each of you to “place your trust” in Obama and vote for him. As well as voting for Obama, I as well ask (as Obama is asking of all of us) that “you” do your part by working with the rest of America (even the ignorant..) for a better future for all Americans.

Actually, I thought Obama was pretty good. He’s a politician and did basically as you expect.  I liked the doorman line and “barak” means “that one” (I actually think it was the Prophet’s horse).  And he does have Alfred E. Newman ears…poor guy!

McCain, OTOH, was terrific!  I’m really glad THAT McCain didn’t show up at the debates and on the campaign trail or we’d be looking at a McCain/Palin WH looming at us.