Try as I might, I couldn't get the words to come out of my brain and through my fingertips onto the page. In this episode, the words come from somewhere else. Like many of you, I sat down to watch the Presidential Debate on Tuesday. Now, I don't know about you, but the first debate I remember was memorable because the two candidates on stage said literally nothing for half an hour. It was the first debate between Ford and Carter on September 23, 1976. The sound had gone out, and the two candidates just stood there at the podiums for 30 minutes waiting for the problem to be fixed. I don't remember much about that debate other than that, because let's face it, I was six years old. However, I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that in all the years I have watched debates, that was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen happen...until Tuesday night.
