Aerogyros, You Say? Hrmpf.

Probably Obama's actual response, suggesting clearly without stating directly that McCain was being a fink with his pulling-out method of not getting knocked about at Friday's debate, and only after lecturing tediously on the bailout plan in general first, was probably wiser than my own, though lacking pizazz.

It was satisfying, though, the way Obama pointed out that most people who are not John McCain are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. Granted dealing with an economic crisis and debating foreign policy are more of a challenge than either ambulation or gum-mastication, but that's why we don't let any old yahoo from the provinces become president (insert your own Sarah Palin joke here). You're supposed to be smart and good at doing stuff. You need skillz.


Most satisfying was Obama's drawing McCain's attention to the existence of, in his words, "big planes" that make it possible to be in two separate places, with hundreds (even thousands!) of miles between them, in the very same day. Such as, say, the District of Columbia and Mississippi. The question to be inferred was: has Senator McCain forgotten in his senility of these flying machines exist? Granted commercial air travel was in its infancy when McCain was a child, but he was at one time capable of flying military-grade jetplanes (with some greater or lesser degree of competency). Might some traumatic event in his past involving planes, perhaps their crashing into bodies of water while behind enemy lines, caused him to repress all knowledge of man's ability to travel through the air in large metal tubes at high rates of speed? When he has to board one of these air-sailing-through implements, do his wife or staffers make him close his eyes as he boards, lower the flaps on the windows, and tell him he is traveling on his very own bullet train?

So, Barry O. didn't lay on the sarcasm as thick as all that, but it was there, and it was savory to mine ears.