Opus 2024-270: The Invisible Teleprompter

I watched the debate last night.  I didn’t really want to because my mind is made up and I know who the candidates are.  But as somebody said, “I watched it so you wouldn’t have to.”  Actually, I watched it because I wanted to be able to ignore the spin that everybody else wants to put on it.

If I were an alien from outer space, and we’re simply evaluating what I saw with no background, no knowledge and living in a bubble, I would give Harris the win.  But I do know the background.  I do have a memory.  I am reasonably intelligent.  That makes me a bit hesitant to give her advantage in reality.

What I noticed about both candidates is that neither one of them answered the questions.  Some of the questions were actually decent.  The problem was that there was no follow up and no holding the feet to the fire.  Take the simple question about whether people were better off than they were four years ago.  That is a hard question with an easy answer or an easy question with a hard answer.  For Harris it was a good question with no answer.  I believe she went off on her values again.  What?  How did she get there?

With that I am ready to suggest that, although there was no Teleprompter on the stage, Harris had one built in.  She obviously had prepared.  Her speeches were ready to go.  They was well rehearsed.  She had worked on her facial expressions, her eyes, her mouth, her smiles and gestures.  All of it was worked out very carefully ahead of time and memorized perfectly.  This is clear and should have been a problem, because none of her answers had anything to do with the questions she was asked, but the answers were free-flowing, eloquent and repeating the Democrat sound bites.

It is as she had a Teleprompter but we couldn’t see it.

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