Day 313: memorable presidential debates
Oct. 3rd, 2012 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maeve66This one wasn't one of them. Boring, blah, lacking in either strong principles or clear specifics.
Four years ago, though, the Vice-Presidential debate (those often seem to be the best ones) between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden was HILARIOUS and enjoyable. A now-defunct local brew-pizza-movie-theater showed it on its movie screen, and the line to get in went around the block. I went with M., who was then doing his second stint at the DLI, this time on Urdu instead of Pashto. And someone passed out a debate drinking game flyer, which was great fun and involved (I think) repetitions of claims about Russia and I don't remember what else. I wish I had saved it. M. asked me afterwards what I thought about the Dems, didn't I prefer them, and I said that No Child Left Behind was bipartisan, and that alone was enough for me to despise both parties.
And even further back... the classically hilarious showdown among Ross Perot's running mate Admiral (Rear Admiral?) Stockdale, Dan Quayle, and Al Gore. I saw that in the Reading Room of the University of Missouri's Western Historical Manuscripts Collection -- I was the only person researching to their late closing time, and the two full time archivists wheeled a TV out on a stand so we could all watch it.
Four years ago, though, the Vice-Presidential debate (those often seem to be the best ones) between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden was HILARIOUS and enjoyable. A now-defunct local brew-pizza-movie-theater showed it on its movie screen, and the line to get in went around the block. I went with M., who was then doing his second stint at the DLI, this time on Urdu instead of Pashto. And someone passed out a debate drinking game flyer, which was great fun and involved (I think) repetitions of claims about Russia and I don't remember what else. I wish I had saved it. M. asked me afterwards what I thought about the Dems, didn't I prefer them, and I said that No Child Left Behind was bipartisan, and that alone was enough for me to despise both parties.
And even further back... the classically hilarious showdown among Ross Perot's running mate Admiral (Rear Admiral?) Stockdale, Dan Quayle, and Al Gore. I saw that in the Reading Room of the University of Missouri's Western Historical Manuscripts Collection -- I was the only person researching to their late closing time, and the two full time archivists wheeled a TV out on a stand so we could all watch it.