My thoughts on the first debate

[lithera]

1 - An existential threat? What the hell does that mean? That shall now be my catch phrase. Everything shall be existential.

2 - Obama helped McCain with pronunciation. Heh. Oh my was he mad about that.

3 - It isn't the KGB anymore. The KGB went away in 1991, the same with Communism in Russia. Just a little thing but an important one.

4 - Unless either one of these gentlemen has been President before, neither one of them has any experience at being President. It makes the experience thing less important than they'd like it to be, I think.

5 - VP Debate. Oh my that should be interesting, even if they have blunted the hell out of it by accepting the McCain campaign's desire for a shorter question and answer period.

Comments

[wanderingfey.livejournal.com]

1. It threw both technocracygirl and I as well.

Oddly enough, the definition is pretty mundane. Roughly translated, it means
existing. (Though tecnically correct, he used it in a really odd manner, and I still think he misspoke)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/existential

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Huh.

That bothers me. It shouldn't be .... It shouldn't be that way.

[jameel.livejournal.com]

The VP Debate is going to be awesome.

[m00t.livejournal.com]

Bloodbaths ARE awesome sometimes, yes.

[warpdragon.livejournal.com]

Existential threat, meaning a threat to its existence. As it, not going to just rough it up, but going to blow it up.

I thought Obama won. So did my boss, a Republican leaner.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I get that now. It is an odd use of the word for me.

[littledrow.livejournal.com]

An existential threat? Does Buddha have 'tude?