getting ready for the town hall debate

The chap who cleans our carpets arrived bright and early this morning. Yesterday we spent moving furniture out of three rooms ~ everything else is now tile, thank heaven ~ into the front patio. He started at 8 o'clock and was done by 10 am. It looks beautiful. I decided to do this now in case Belmont University has a mechanical failure and tonight's debate has to be moved west. If so, I'm ready.

All the conventional wisdom says this format is not Obama's strongest. We'll see. I am hoping it will be a substantive debate, not mere finger pointing and mud slinging. With the economy down the drain, health care a mess, education in need of salvation, who talked to whom over the past 20 years is totally irrelevant. I thought guilt by association was quashed with the Army-McCarthy hearings. McCain's numbers are falling daily, even in key red states. The hate and fear tactics are the actions of a desperate campaign. And I fear it's going to get worse. I find it telling that Palin is not living up to her "There you go again, Joe, bringing up the past" remark in the Veep debate. Am I the only one who has noticed this?

So folks, gather round your flat screen TV, get your six-pack nice and cold, and hang on to your hat. It's could be a bumpy night.