Cavalier Behavior

Gideon Rachman on last night's debate:

I also very much enjoyed Obama’s prissy euphemism for teenage sex - “cavalier behaviour”. I think it could make a good chat-up line: “Darling, could I interest you in a little cavalier behaviour?”

One of the commenters (Lisa-Helene Lawson, on October 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pm), however, finds no amusement in the spectacle. She says that the campaign is

like being stuck in the audience in a tent forced to watch a 3 ring circus, all the while there is a killer torn[a]do whipping up and you and everyone else stuck in the tent are in its path…but the circus performers keep performing their dog and pony tricks even though no one in the audience is laughing.

Which sounds rather like Gideon's response to the first debate:

Anyone who was hoping for some reassurance at this time of financial crisis, will not have got much from tonight’s presidential election debate. I thought the McCain-Obama exchanges on the Wall Street meltdown and the bail-out plan were feeble in the extreme.

We concur on all points.