Kerry won

[NeoConsSuck]

-- If there's one thing President Bush should know to avoid in debates, it's the audible sigh. And the eye-rolling. Yet there he was last night, doing his best Al Gore, as most TV networks ran those forbidden cutaway shots that hurt him as much as John Kerry did.

If you don't believe us, or the CNN/USA Today/Gallup post-debate poll (more on that below), just ask the New York Post. (Complete coverage: Debating the debate)

Under the headline, "Bad Night for W," the country's most rabidly pro-Bush paper forgave Kerry for his New York subway faux pas to report that the president was "unusually off his game" last night in the University of Miami's basketball arena.

Even that paper's most rabidly pro-Bush reporter, Deborah Orin, said Kerry "seemed far better prepared than Bush," who "often repeated himself and at times seemed at a loss for words or defensive. ... By the time the debate was over, it seemed clear that Kerry had given himself a new lease on life and guaranteed that the campaign has a long way to run."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/01/fri/index.html

[NNN0LHI]

1. Hard to have the game face on with US soldiers being blown up every day

Ask Lyndon B. Johnson.

Don

[Serial Mom]

7. How true, but at least you can say LBJ had a heart

- he cared about people in some sense (the Civil Rights acts he signed).

And I believe that 'Nam weighed heavy on his heart - it gave out on him shortly after leaving office!

[demoman123]

25. No he didn't.

He was a psychopath, according to his biographer, Robert Caro.
Read his The Path to Power.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679729453/ref=pd_sim_books_1/104-9258218-6115100?v=glance&s=books

[dubyaD40web]

9. true, except that * doesn't give a rat's behind about fallen soldiers

he barely even acknowledges that they exist.

[sasquatch]

2. "Late Breaking News" my ass

They're people recovering from their hangovers in the lounge after the victory celebrations.

[Placebo]

3. I heart cutaway shots!

[4_Legs_Good]

6. Amen!

[onehandle]

4. Keep that headline ready for November 3rd. nt

[Inland]

5. Bush's eyes just kept getting beadier and smaller as night went on

[Scairp]

8. "Unusually" off his game?

Don't think so. He is always like that, it's just that the media decides not to notice the rest of the time.

[graywarrior]

10. After the first hour, he started having images of the beating he was gonna

get from Cheney and poppy.

[wrate]

19. My thoughts exactly. Please, the chimp can't hide his arrogance. Never has

never will.

[JoFerret]

20. No. He used to be relatively smooth and articulate

See the tape of the Ann Richards debate for example where he speaks regular English and complete sentences.. He then plays the country bumpkin for so long it starts to become first nature. And then - one possible diagnisis is pre-senile dementia.

[andyhappy]

11. flustered parrot

It wasn't the uncomfortable smirking that did him in. It was the fact that ol'georgie boy only has about 6 or 7 lines he kept saying over and over again. He ended up lookin a fool!

Kerry picked him apart piece by piece. I think John K went miles to disprove that flip-flopper bullshit the repugs have projected onto him and he looked darned presidential doing so.

My favorite line was when Kerry was asked what mistakes 'W' has made and he laughed saying, "Where should I begin?"

I did a cartoon about the debate;
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cssuu

Kerry Kicked Ass!

[progressivebydesign]

12. Bush is ILL... I'm certain of it.

All the wild speculation around here this past year really came to fruition last night. Bush is suffering from some ailment. It's obvious. He NEVER used to blink furiously, twitch, etc. His face went red so many times, he drank water to the point of ridiculousness, he seemed to be able to contruct decent sentences, but he was simply repeating things he had in his head.. he wasn't thinking about his responses much. He seemed more disjointed than usual.

I am absolutely CONVINCED that Bush is ill,and that is why he is REFUSING to take his physical BEFORE the election. Mark my words! He's ill.

[benburch]

15. I agree.

What I saw there was not a well man.

Yes, sick or not, he is still an asshole, but there was something else happening there; something that would disturb the American People greatly were he to be honest about it.

[readmylips]

13. Kerry far better prepared than little bush?....

The truth is that it is not how well prepared John Kerry was, it is how ignorant, stupid, non-intelligent bush is. The world knows bush is a dummy and a puppet. He's a fake. Kerry is intelligent and knows all the facts and didn't need much prepareness.

My neighbor said, little bush shamed his father last night. At least his father can put two sentences together.

Kerry even beat the crap out of little bush by using his father's legacy. A father little bush hates and is at war wanting to be better than his father - mano a mano. Little bush never mentions any of his father's achievements. Little bush only dreams of being Reagan's son. Ron Reagan beat the shit out of him too.

[AndyTiedye]

14. CSPAN Ran the Whole Debate Split-Screen

We got to see every fidget and sigh (by either candidate), and it was Kerry who looked
calm and steady and Presidential, and the usurper looked more like a very guilty
defendant on the stand.

[graywarrior]

16. I'm surprised Kerry kept a straight face

Bush uttered some rediculousnesses last night that would have made me spit up had I been Kerry.

[JimGinPA]

17. I watched the C-SPAN feed

and I was pleasantly surprised at their choice to air it that way. I also noticed besides Dubya's uncomfotable body language, he was blinking whenever he spoke, like a hostage trying to send a message in Morse Code

[SharonAnn]

18. There was a photo on Yahoo news today showing Kerry as gigantic

and * as very small.

Each at their lectern but the camera was closer to Kerry on the left and farther from *on the right, so * looks like a tiny man.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/el/092904elecdebates&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=0&e=12&a=0&printer=

Loved it!

[demokatgurrl]

21. I also saw a spliced-together photo on ABC this morning-

It put the podiums next to each other and Kerry's was obviously several inches higher than Bush's.

[louis-t]

22. I wish Kerry had called shrub on the

question he never really answered: "If Kerry is elected, would we be more likely to be attacked?"

[Javaman]

23. bush off his game? He has no game, he's without game, he's gameless...

The only game he has is the one he plays on the American public!

[IconoclastIlene]

24. Like a mensa convention with a retarded person there...

I really kinda felt sorry for Bush..he didnt' belong in the same room...