Should we or should we not watch the TV debate of the two main candidates for German chancellor, the CDU's current Chancellor Merkel, and the SPD's long time man Steinbrueck?
Of the two-part answer to the question, one was administrative: We would have to go to a friend to watch the duel and some translation work would be involved.
The second part was another question: Why bother?
That made a combined "no", we opted for another series of Australian docu-drama or drama-docu "Underbelly" with Twitter #TVDUELL ticking by on a computer next to Underbelly.
The underbelly of German politics may not be quite as seedy as the Aussie show, but it certainly is boring compared to the blazing guns and the thugs of down under.
On Twitter, it was pretty cool, though.
Not watching the German debate, which is a one time event of only the two main party heavy-weights, excluding candidates of the smaller parties, brought back memories of the first Romney - Obama debate in the last US campaign.
Unlike all the pundits, we now believe that we know why Mr. Obama botched it: He suffered a temporary breakdown of his ability to perform the amazing cognitive disconnect that comes with the office.
Having seen deep into the power structure of the US and the world, did the shadow boxing of the debate as an empty but necessary ritual get to him for a second?
Next time, follow life on Twitter, you still get real people there, not just robots with an updated empathy module.
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