so what about the "zingers" Bush was rumored to have prepared?

[Cocoa]

Was "need some wood?" one of them?

[CO Liberal]

1. That and "Internets"

What a moran....

[gmoney]

2. "Dred Scott? I 'dred' the third debate!"

[SeveneightyWhoa]

3. I think..

.."that answer was almost enough to make me scowl" was one of the big ones. It fell flat, though.

[AlinPA]

4. He used "you can run, but you can't hide" three times. What the hell

does that mean? He used it again today in a campaign speech. What a jerk.

[Cocoa]

5. Kerry defended his record well

he pointed out that he was in Congress when the budget was balanced, and that he was on the side of balancing it. He said "we did it, I was there." (Maybe in the next debate he'll remind people that not a single republican voted on Clinton's 1993 budget...)

Bush looked really stupid not addressing that fact at all, just repeating his ridiculous, meaningless "zinger."

[RetroLounge]

10. you can run, but you can't hide

Gonna smoke 'em out

Dead or Alive

What the fuck is he gonna do next? Cut Kerry off at the pass?

Not only is bush* too stupid to believe, but he must have been coached on the debate by watching old cowboy movies.

RL

[Mr Bojangles]

12. Didn't Reagan coin "you can run..."

some time ago? I was quite young, but I remember seeing it on T-shirts and the like.

[Cha]

22. How ironic that so many People think

bush is refering to himself when he says.."you can run but you cannot HIDE!"

We're gonna getcha...you little bushmonkey!

[glarius]

6. All his concentration was on NOT BLOWING UP!

With his quivering chin, curling lip and blinking eyes, he was the picture of someone on the verge of a nervous breakdown....SCARY!...To think he's the president!.....

[emulatorloo]

8. Too bad he failed. . . .

If I was Charlie Gibson, I'd be having nightmares about GWB charging at me.

[emulatorloo]

7. "You tell Tony Blair we're going alone!"

That one was soooooooooooo successful, don't you think?

[LiberalEsto]

9. "battling green eyeshades" n/t

[Cocoa]

11. oh yeah, that one...

Zing! :eyes:

[Mr Bojangles]

13. I actually had to ask

my roommate what the hell Bush* was talking about when whe brought that up.

[eurolefty]

14. Why the hell is Dubya battling the eyeshades?

evil eyeshades:


Maybe he's battling his pillow, too.

[meganmonkey]

15. Has anyone figured that one out yet?

The "battling green eyeshades" -

What <was> that supposed to be??

[DancingBear]

17. In the "olden days"

(pre-computers) accountants supposedly wore visors tinted green. My best friends dad was an accountant, and he never did, but...

Anyway, it's a term used to define an accountant and his long hours of looking at the books...

[Philostopher]

18. If his handlers had the sense God gave a goose,

they'd have had him say 'battling bean counters' instead. But they don't, fortunately, and nobody under 40 is going to have the slightest f*cking idea what that eyeshade crap was about.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. "battling green eyeshades"

I, like most Americans have no idea what that means. Seriously, what does that mean?

[exsoccermom]

19. Isn't green eye shades

Isn't green eye shades related to accounting (some accountants once wore them, I think). So, battling green eye shade would be two sets of number from different sources for the same "object."

[RoyalWickedness]

20. Back in the day,

accountants used to wear green plastic visors (eyeshades) to counteract the glare from the paper they stared at all day:

[Raven]

21. OK all you youngens'!

"Green eyeshade" is a derrogatory term used to refer to someone who spends too much time on details, is too precise,is a nitpicker or a "bean counter". Accountants used to wear these green visors to shield their eyes from bright light as they worked.

I think what Bush was actually implying was that he doesn't like to be confused with the facts or bothered with details. To me, that statement really said alot about his shoot from the hip approach to things.