Roger expresses almost exactly what my wife and I thought after the so-called townhall debate the other night. For obvious reasons, Sen McCain can’t move smoothly across a stage and engage an audience like a Reagan could and Gov Palin can. I hate it when people criticize him for appearing “stiff” and having odd body language. But what I believe what he sometimes lacks in physical presence he more than makes up for in emotion. During the last debate his tone was almost always optimistic, he was friendly to the audience, and genuinely gracious to Obama at appropriate moments. Obama came off as dour, snobbish bordering on snarky, and pessimistic. Maybe it was the format, but we didn’t see anything in Obama that would make anyone swoon. Where the heck he got the reputation as a great orator is a mystery to us.

This country may be going to hell in a handbasket, but I’d rather be in it with someone pleasant instead of a mope.