Well, after a good sleep and listening to this morning's spin, it's pretty clear that George Bush came off exactly as we all know and love him. A whiny man who simply doesn't have a clue about what to do about Iraq nor the War on Terror - other than to spout platitudes about how much "hard work" needs to be done.
His "flip/flop" lines were overused to the point of fraying and he still seems to think that just because he says something it makes it true. He couldn't back up his assertions with anything more than just repeating the assertions. This line of attack is officially dead, I'm pretty sure. That doesn't mean that the Bush/Cheney campaign isn't going to keep injecting the Zombie serum into the dead horse to keep on flogging it - quite the contrary. So it's going to be great to see them put so much energy into an issue that - for all practical purposes - is DOA.
George Bush was also pretty incoherent and dissembling. It was weird watching the man - he really has lost whatever public speaking abilities he might have had in his youth. The pregnant pauses just drew even more attention to the hamsters laboring under his skull, desperately trying to figure out something - anything - to say in response to Kerry.
Bush came off as arrogant, whiny and unable to admit that anything had gone wrong with his wonderful plans for world domination.
And best of all, this debate was Bush's strongest platform: Foreign Policy. From here on out, Bush's "advantage" is gone. He had his best possible playing field and he blew it all to hell.
Even better, pretty much everyone on the right seems to completely aware of this miserable failure last night.
This is your leader. George Bush: Whiny, petulant, failure extraordinaire.
Damn right! I thought the whole "It's hard work" message Bush kept repeating over and over was thoroughly amusing. I lost count of how many times he said it.
It is hard work being President, how about we give poor beleaguered George a break come January? All in favor . . .
And of course the flip-flop thing. For the love of Allah, let it go already. It's starting to play like news headlines of another Britney Spears wedding.
P.S. while Googling Britney's name to make sure I was spelling it correctly, I found this site: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm I just had to share it.
<heh> Yea, that one is priceless. I especially like the wallpaper that has "Britney's guide to semiconductor physics" etched in the quantum dot.
(giggle)