[IWE] Could Brokaw be any more obviously in McCain's pocket?

[D. Scott Katzer]

Hi Jay,

Jay Mehaffey wrote:
> Didn't notice, what I did notice is that Brokaw isn't keeping things on 
> track.

I thought Ifill was much better at running her debate than Brokaw was 
tonight.  Perhaps Tom just thought he was being polite to both, but he 
(perhaps unconsciously) was much more deferential to McCain than Obama. 
  Brokaw sounded like a 12 year old when he kept whining about the time 
and the rules.

> I don't think either one has actually done very well tonight.

Obama won easily, IMO.  McCain was less coherent than usual.  Sullivan 
thought Obama wiped the floor with McCain.  I don't know if it was that 
much of a drubbing, but it was a big defeat for him.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/live-blogging-n.html

> They both wandered
> a bit, repeated themselves too much, pulled some obvious question dodges,
> repeated themselves too much and tried to insult the other by intentionally
> misconstruing their positions.

Yeah, there was some of that.  Obama got tripped up in his sentences a 
few times (like when he was talking at the end about the opportunities 
he had, he said something like "There's no other place in America where 
I'd have those opportunities." when he meant "on Earth").  It's one of 
his standard lines.  But McCain had more mangled sentences than that.

What was with McCain when he said that he wouldn't appoint Brokaw to be 
Treasury Secretary???  Was that supposed to be funny?

Anyway, it wasn't a game-changer for McCain.  I doubt it'll help him 
much in the polls, so I expect his recent attacks on Obama will continue.

Cheers,
Scott.