John McCain wore the wrong tie. One should not wear stripes on TV. Everyone knows that. Stripes and patterns tend to create a moiré pattern on TV and that distracts the viewer. Barack Obama had to walk a fine line. If he went on the attack he could appear to be an aggressive black guy and a lot of Americans are afraid of aggressive black guys. Many Democrats on the radio complained he was too polite. I think Obama's demeanor was on target. He came off smart and so did McCain as he rattled off a bunch of names of foreign leaders (he could have made them up as I really couldn't follow that many names in a row especially since I was so distracted by the tie). I would suppose he was trying to be anti-Bush (who couldn't pronounce anything).
Who fared better? I think I will not offer an opinion since I endorsed Obama already. However, if you base it on wardrobe: Obama wore the correct tie and that has to count for something. So does that make it a "TIE"?
(Note on Photo: This is a re-creation of the offensive "tie" to show you what a moiré pattern looks like, it is NOT from the debate.) P.S. I didn't hear McCain say "Bush". Did anyone?
3 comments:
I didn't notice the tie. Are you doing a Joan Rivers review?
The tie did not bother me in the least. I listened to two very prepared speakers. I really do not think observations on the national election belongs on our Miami blog site.
Mensa: read our masthead, it says
"Revealing analysis of national trends and local news."
However, this post was written with tongue in cheek about incidental news coverage of the debate. What could be more useless in the scheme of things than a report on wardrobe?
Your comment has merit...should we be dealing with National news? Our real estate, housing crash blogs are read by thousands of readers all over the world. The trends in Miami are of interest to readers nationally. These readers don't care about George Burgess or Matthew Pinzer. So I think we are between two worlds on this blog. Should we give up thousands of readers? I think we can handle the National news as it relates to Miami and even as it doesn't. It is too important in our lives.
In fact, I write about just about anything (i.e. tofu turkey and my mother's death being two examples). As I said before, I work for free so I get to do what I want: like make fun of the news media analysis of minutia.
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