August 18, 2008
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Yep It’s Monday …
- We got our fix of pizza tonight. Papa John’s Redskins pizza – 2 toppings wheat crust pizza. One touchdown but they won so we got our standard two-topping pizza (pineapple and ham) but this time with their new wheat crust. I sorta thought it was like eating unleavened bread. I think I prefer their original crust better. But hey, wheat is healthier right?
- Finally watched the Obama/McCain Civil Talk with Rick Warren last night. Even though I started to watch it pretty late at night, it was so compelling I couldn’t turn it off. If you’re thinking about who to vote for I strongly encourage you to watch the video feeds that are still available off of CNN.com’s website or by just going to the article I linked to. My overall thoughts:
- McCain laughs like Mike Myers.
- McCain looks like Dr. Evil. Then I realized all that stiff body language was because of his time spent in that rope prison he described and the torture he endured. He’s still kinda pasty though.
- Before going into the interview I thought Obama was much more articulate than he actually is. I don’t understand how all the media outlets are saying Obama was great when to the average Joe (me) he seemed extremely ill-prepared and contradictory when not giving a canned speech. Too much stuttering, “ummms” and time taken when answering questions. It was like he was trying to look for the “correct” responses to say to please the audience rather than speak with conviction. It really made him look inexperienced, scared and morally weak. When he becomes President I hope he’s not like that before other heads of state. I can just see him doing that and his actions and words causing some international incident because of some silly misunderstanding.
- Obama has no idea on how to dodge a question and gave some extremely bad answers (“It’s above my pay grade.” – duh! We’re not talking about now but when you become President)
- McCain on the other hand had this natural flow to what he said. He seemed prepared, that he has actually thought out many ideas and situations that plague this country and the world. Even when he dodges the question he puts his spin on it.
- McCain uses too many military references, especially to the current conflict in Iraqi. He needs to tone that down a bit.
- Rick Warren seemed to treat both candidates differently. He asked the same questions which was smart but the atmosphere he created for each candidate was different. With Obama it was this close, sorta brotherhood relationship. They were buddy-buddy, laughing, carrying on and the questions actually were given more detail (as in to help his thought process out more). With McCain, it seemed like Warren was giving him this elder respect thing. Not so many jokes or carrying on even though McCain was trying to show he had personality. Probably my only down mark for the whole show. They tried to make it fair and balanced but in terms of atmosphere I don’t think it was. Granted I don’t think that changed the way each candidate came through though. McCain definitely did better than Obama.
- I don’t know them but the person who took the pictures, I just read his web-comic. What a wedding idea.
I don’t think we could have gotten away with that. 200+ older
generation Chinese dressing up? Yeah, not gonna happen. Some really
nice costumes. The Tie-Fighter and the Captain Pike are probably the
best. I’ve seen the character with the burlap bag for a face before
and just don’t know if he’s supposed to be Scarecrow or not. - Michael Phelps won 8 Gold medals. Unless you’ve been living in a cave I’m sure you’ve heard it already. But the odd thing is as a Baltimore native he doesn’t make the “O” emphasis when the National Anthem is played.
