Yeah...and that pretty much says it all.
It was hard to watch.
Not just the rhetoric and in many cases out-and-out lies. Not just the way they turned on each other like hyenas fighting over the carcass of a leftover wildebeest. Not just some of the comments which had to suck the I.Q points of everyone in the room several points lower.
It was hard to watch because these candidates...vying for the top office in the United States...refused to even extend the courtesy to the other members of their own party to wait their turn to talk.
Seriously.
Didn't we learn that in Kindergarten?
The taking turns talking and listening thing?
No. They spent two full hours shouting each other down, belittling each other, questioning each other's ability to be The POTUS...and talking about how terrible Our Government is in general.
Since these candidates are pretty much asking the American People for a JOB in The Government. And the Debates are kind of their "Job Interview"...well imagine that type of scenario playing out at an interview with ANY other JOB.
Screaming over one another. Attacking each other. Refusing to stop talking when the interviewer says you need to. Not answering the question but going off on a totally different agenda/tangent. And not only saying horrible things about their current employer...but bad-mouthing the very "company" they are asking to employ them.
Would you hire anybody for any job who conducted themselves like that?
By the end of it all it was just like this:
WTH, people.
Totally disgusted.
Anyway...today is October 29th which also happens to be
So, in a show of solidarity, I enjoyed a long nap!
Before which, I hosted a luncheon with my friend and fellow cat lover, Donna.
Her stray-cat-turned-taking over the house. Furry Lord of the Manor: "Critter" is just adorable. Of course, for Tucker...every day is Cat Day, too.
She is getting ready to deal with some pretty heavy care-taking with her SIL (they are very close) who is coming home from a post-op bilateral radical mastectomy...alone. So having a break from real-life for the afternoon...and relaxing...and a meal that she didn't have to fix or clean up after...and later home-made beignets and chicory coffee, was in order. Chris drifted over, too. He has always referred to her as "My Second Mom", and he and Dayne have been close friends since they were around eleven years old. Eric really helped take Chris under his wing when Bill died and she sat with me in the hospital in 2011 when I ended up with pneumonia. By the time Donna left today...with hugs and encouraging words and leftover beignets we were joking and she was not nearly as stressed out.
And that is what being friends is all about.
What we are all here for, folks.
Being there for each other.
Nicole and I finishing Halloween Plans tomorrow. The end of the Soccer Season...which is good...unless they want these kids playing in SNOW. Tonight it actually felt and smelled like snow out. Probably soon. I think I am wearing a PARKA to Saturday's games. And thermals.
And that's okay. We have had an outstanding Autumn. I am kind of anticipating the first Real Snowfall!
By February, I won't be saying that...of course!
Saw this yesterday on the Internet:
Has to be the BEST Halloween Decor I have seen this year. Seriously, going to do it here next year (on a smaller scale) On the Arbor. Crouched on Tucker's Box. Climbing the wooden support pole for the balcony or hanging off the flag-pole.
Absolutely loved the whole concept.
Too cool!
More anon...
