Passion Always Starts Well

As a critique of Wednesday night’s debate, Healy’s piece merely continues to echo the sentiments of those pundits past. According to Healy “it looked like Mr. McCain might, just might, raise the level of his game in throwing Mr. Obama off his…” but as the night progressed, that potential slowly dissipated. Most unfortunately, McCain’s loss of potential remains the product of his own wrongdoing. McCain began to undercut his own effort to depict Mr. Obama as just another negative politician. The counter-productiveness of that scheme is apparent- as such a gesture obviously does the intended to the inflictor himself. McCain grew especially enraged when discussing Obama’s “ties” to Weather Underground founder, William Ayers. Suddenly, Mr. McCain was no longer gaining ground by showing command on the top issue for voters, the economy; he was turning tetchy over a 1960s radical. An interesting parallel can be drawn to McCain’s aforementioned performance during the debate and the general ambiance encircling his political existence. Highly topical, superficial observations lead the common American to believe McCain’s experience will literally and metaphorically lead us in the right direction-but what if that “direction” alone proves to be as capricious , disappointing, and unprofessional and as his very performance Wednesday night? It always starts out well. Everything always looks good from far away, but time atrophies even the most promising of subjects…