Sunday, October 12, 2008

從 The One 到 That One

還剩三星期便是美國大選日。這是昨天 pollster.com 的選舉人票和民調形勢:




奧巴馬以320票遙遙領先麥凱恩的158 票。十多個決勝負的 battleground states,差不多全一面倒傾藍,沒有一州是共和黨佔優。

網上市場 intrade 的最新盤口,是奧巴馬77%,麥凱恩 23%:



九月初,佩林的提名,為麥凱恩打了一支強心針。誰也預料不到,一個月後,情況會這樣一面倒。

九月十五日的金融海嘯,令麥凱恩陣腳大亂,接二連三出錯;兩場辯論又佔不到優勢。到了這星期,不得不回歸人身攻擊,說人民還未知道誰才是真正的奧巴馬。

但奧巴馬已被傳媒全面起底近兩年,究竟還有那些底細未看清楚?共和黨一方面把他和激進牧師扯上關係,另一方面又強調他是 Barack Hussein Obama,要人聯想他是回教徒,那算不算是精神分裂?

民主黨在形勢大好下,策略也變得保守了,小心翼翼地只求不出錯,等待麥營繼續自我毁滅。不過,美國總統大選一向有「十月驚喜」的傳統,接下來的二十多天,會不會出現變卦?

可以說,現在最能令麥凱恩起死回生的,不是佩林,不是奧巴馬,也不是 Warren Buffet。

是拉登。

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週二晚的辯論,沉悶無比,我懷疑有沒有觀眾真的在聽二人所說的內容。

結果是,奧巴馬以坐姿勝出:



絕對相信,在民主黨的辯論預備中,有專人量度櫈子高度,再反覆測試那一個才是最優雅的姿勢。Jon Stewart 說,奧巴馬酷得有如在拍攝六十年代騷靈唱片封套:



反觀麥凱恩,奧巴馬發言時,他卻在台上散步,慘被各節目主持嘲弄了整個星期:



整場辯論,唯一讓人興奮的,怕是麥凱恩那句語出驚人的"That One"。That One 者,意思應是「嗰條友」和「嗰隻嘢」之間吧。四個月前,麥營嘲笑奧巴馬是高高在上的 The One。四個月後,再把他貶成不值一晒的 That One。首尾呼應,可謂用心良苦。

辯論結束後一小時,已有人登記了www.thatone08.com 網站,賣 That One 的T恤。效率之快,令人嘆為觀止。

7 comments:

  1. Did you watch the SNL's imitation of the rebate? (NBC showed it again on Thur night!) 差D笑死左我囉。

    It showed "McCain" kept pacing back and fro, and "Brokaw" kept cutting them off and said "times up!" Wahahaha!!!

    題外話﹐我覺得呢﹐Brokaw 好。型。:P

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  2. My U.S. friends and I watched it live while chatting on Yahoo and had a drinking game whenever "my friends" was uttered by McCain. As my tipple of choice was actually 7-up (since I needed the caffeine to stay up to watch the damn thing) I ended up not sleeping at all and going into work the next day without a wink of sleep. Luckily my class finished at 4pm and I went home straight after for a much-needed snooze.

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  3. yun:it was a special prime-time edition of SNL. They will show it again this Thursday. 扮 McCain 個位真係好好笑。

    Brokaw??? 四十年前?

    snowdrops : he uttered fewer "my friends" tonight in the third debate. It was the best among the three debtaes, each of them had some good moments. But, once again, McCain came off as angry and impatient.

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  4. Oh well, believe it or not, I actually missed the debate last night. (Not young enough anymore for all these all-nighters).

    Apparently McCain came out swinging in this final debate? And apparently the polls still rate Obama more favourably. It's all good then.

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  6. 唔係呀﹐我係講緊而。家。啊。

    (死啦﹐而家諗返﹐I find quite a few older men attractive. :P )

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  7. yun: 唔使怕,口味隨年齡改變,係正常嘅。 :P

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