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Eleven Three Twenty
September 30, 2020
In yesterday’s entry, I used a boxing metaphor to describe how President Trump needed to approach last night’s debate. Consequently, I had decided to present my day-after thoughts and observations of it in the form of a boxing match’s round-by-round scorecard, using the same 10-point scale used by judges.
But after watching the debacle…er…“debate”…I concluded it would be unfair to the sport of boxing to compare it to what I witnessed last evening. Just as it would be unfair to “train wrecks” and “circuses” (During the post-debate discussion on CNN, commentator Van Jones called it the latter and was immediately besieged by tweets from circus workers informing him they’re professionals who behave much better than what they had just witnessed on the stage in Cleveland.)
Instead, I’m going to go back to the five things I recommended each candidate do during the debate and score them with a traditional education grade from A through F.
What I Said President Trump Should Do
1. Be Prepared. As I predicted, the President chose to engage in his standard off-the-cuff, shoot-from-the-hip communication style, speaking in broad generalities and self-serving platitudes. And while it undoubtedly appealed to his base, it kept him from providing any substantive vision of what his next four years would…
