I watched the Commander-In-Chief Forum last night. A lot of the news coverage this morning seemed to focus on what a bad job Matt Lauer did as moderator. Maybe they weren’t watching the same forum that I was. I think “bad” pretty much described everyone’s performance — except for the questions asked by the veterans. Too bad none of the answers were as good as the questions.
Over the years I’ve interviewed a few people to fill various positions. The fact is last night was part of a job interview — for kind of an important job, by the way. It occurred to me that if I was in a position to hire someone for the job (and I am, along with all the rest of you) I wouldn’t hire either one. November is still a ways off, and I still have an “open” mind and I’ll be watching things more closely now in the home stretch… So maybe something will happen that I like — right now I’m torn between writing in Ronald McDonald or Popeye.
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