After 20 minutes debate snored the first two already. Maybe it was
to the late hour, 8 pm in Oxford, Mississippi for nine clock is the evening on the East Coast, makes plus a half Hour Obama versus McCain 10:30 pm, there are hard-working Americans during the week at home and in bed
Not this Friday evening, da. had eight "liberals", Democrats reported with Obama poster in the front yard (and a fairly neutral observer from Germany) Rees next door arrived at the debate watching. With Chardonnay from California, Bordeaux, France and Italian prune cake for dessert.
It is the first TV debate between Obama and McCain, and the first thing you notice: All here to see the Illinois senator in the White House - but the euphoria of the pre-election months is almost nothing left to feel. Not even in this part of Princeton, a stronghold of the "liberals". At that time, the spring rains Obama supporters at junctions of commuter traffic on and off jumps, had to "change" - brought about and "Yes We Can" posters, a new political era.
It ausgerappt itself. Obama's lead in the polls is dramatically shrunk - despite, or perhaps even because of Sarah Palin. And one of the most discussed topics at this evening is a investigation, according to the first black presidential candidate by these poll numbers even had to remove six to seven points. Because so many Americans in the "polls" just did not want to admit that they would vote on racial grounds in the voting booth just made for the white candidate.
The Wall Street Blues is now the tone. "Hopefully, with the core melt in my stock portfolio at least to not that once again a Republican is elected," a mid-sixties Erin says sarcastically. Like almost all here, in a country without a PAYG pension system, they see their pensions disappear. He makes the envelopes with his depot extracts certainly no longer, says a senior lawyer. has
Of the two candidates on this evening not a convincing answer to how he intends to deal with the financial crisis. 700 Billion Dollar Bailout - Yes or No? Eggs to the question about both. McCain repeatedly confused capital allowances (depreciation) and dividends (dividends), such as the round registered maliciously.
Obama is strangely untouched, despite visible effort to populist movements. He does not fire in this debate format, where the live audience at the venue express Emotion ban - no cheering, no boo is permitted. Not even applause.
In Rees' living room is no enthusiasm, if all you McCain bemäkelt paternalistic, at times almost hostile behavior. As I said, the first fall asleep after twenty minutes, in the meantime from dawn to four eight spectators away.
"It's still Obama's to lose," the lawyer said at the end. Sounds more evocative than convinced. Had Al Gore over then said yes too. And what if all the euphoric first-time voters, count on the Democrats this time so much hope to see their political messiah now rightly turn to normal candidate format? Almost
unnoticed in the din of the banking Götterdämmerung the barometer of optimistic sentiment has fallen, not into the abyss, perhaps, but still noticeable. would hardly anyone might have in the Texas roar of McCain adviser Phil Gramm agree that "recession mental" at best a view of America and made fun of his countrymen that they had no guts more, were " a nation of whiners " has become - sissy country.
NZZ author Andrea Keller goes so far as a "moral crisis " speak, "which engages deeply in the collective soul of household". Your impression: The finding of Peter Sloterdijk "primacy of mania from the depression" in the psycho-dynamic association of the USA still. The implosion of the financial industry has also shaken the economic foundation and fundamental pride of the nation. Since it does not help when Obama, who is always the "change" conjured, now even the phrase has at hand, that had "we Americans" have overcome other crises. So much but no one wanted to change.
Hard to say, what are the group in Rees' living longer fear that the crisis completely out of hand and threatens their economic existence - or that the crisis might not be hard enough to fail. That the same people who have to answer for in their view, the misery, with the help of hundreds of billions of tax payer but somehow still get the curve. That they get away and still be rewarded on top with another victory in her party.
any case, she was now determined yet, in the final weeks before the election on the phone extensively to recruit potential Obama voters, sighs my neighbor, Alex, when we step out after the debate in the warm September drizzle. Rees also wants to get up early on Saturday morning in order to be in New Brunswick as a campaign "volunteer" schools. Steamed
optimism is already. But not broken.
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