After I watched the debate online at C-Span Thursday morning I thought I would mosey on over to Clyde’s and get his take on it.
It was mid-morning and the Williams sisters were having brunch at the window table. “Good morning ladies”, I said as I walked past.
“Good morning Mr. Foley, did you watch the debate last night?”
“I did.” I replied. I didn’t bother to try to tell them that I had only just finished watching it via the magic of the intertubes.
“Romney kicked his ass! Didn’t he?” One of the sisters said.
Apparently the sisters had been into “the recipe” while celebrating this morning. I grinned and said, “Yes Ma’am, that’s what I thought too.
“May we join you?” I asked the sisters as Clyde brought over two cups of coffee. The waitress following right behind with a pot to refill the sisters’ cups.
“Certainly,” Miss Clara said. “Please tell us what you thought of the debate.”
Clyde spoke up first, “I was surprised that Obama seemed so unsure of himself, and was willing to repeat so many of the lies that pepper his ads.
“Also, his body language revealed a lot. He never looked Romney square in the eyes, instead he kept looking at his shoes as though he thought someone had hidden his teleprompter on them. Every so often he would smirk, but that just made him look angrier.
“I honestly do believe that was the first time anyone had ever stood up to him, man to man, in his life.
“Perhaps that goes a long way toward explaining all those ‘present’ votes in the state senate. If you’re merely present, you don’t have to debate.”
“I agree with all that, Clyde”, Miss Francis responded, “but the real fun was watching the angst of the NBC crowd this morning. Chris Matthews even demanded that Obama watch him, Rachel Maddow, And that screaming Schultz fellow in order to learn stuff.
“That was precious.”
I said, “It was a great debate on Romney’s part, and Obama would have done better if he had sent the chair as his proxy, but I’m left wondering what all the talk from the Obama camp about lies is all about. The only lies I saw was Obama continuing to talk up a 5 trillion-dollar tax cut Romney is supposedly all for.
“Even after Romney corrected him a few times, he continued to claim it. It wasn’t until Mitt said, ‘Mr. President, you’re entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts.’ that Obama stopped throwing it out there.
“We also must brace ourselves for the inevitable increase in maliciously false ads from the President’s pals. They will be coming, and coming hard.
“this is the Mitt Romney we need to see for the next month, forceful, truthful, honestly striving to tell us what ‘Hope and Change’ was really all about. And making sure he gets his message of real conservatism out there.”
“Well Clyde, your boneless chicken breakfast was a great brunch for sister and me,” Miss Clara said, “It was great to hear what both of you thought about the debate, but our next batch of the recipe should be just about finished so we’ll run along. Francis, you pay the man, I’ll go start the car.”
