Wow! Check Out This AP Article (Ron Fournier)

[DrFunkenstein]

TEMPE, Ariz. - President Bush's policies are under assault, his re-election threatened, so he sought Wednesday night to make the campaign a referendum on his rival.

"If you don't want to focus on your own record, you focus on the other guy's," said Tony Fabrizio, a Republican consultant in Washington. "He really doesn't have much of a choice, does he?"

Bush's challenge was to stop Kerry's momentum, which began with a poor first debate that erased Bush's lead in the polls. There was no reason to believe that the final debate changed the campaign dynamics, said analysts and voters alike.

"I've become more and more disturbed about Bush," said John Barker, 73, of Tampa, Fla., who voted for Bush in 2000, sweated over this year's election for months and finally decided Wednesday night to back Kerry.

"I just don't think with everything we're facing, we can have another four years. I'm talking about the economy. I'm talking about Iraq. Bush just didn't give me a good reason for the way things are," Barker said. "He gave me plenty of reasons to vote against Kerry. But why should I vote for him again?"

In the CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll of 511 debate watchers, Kerry was seen as the winner by 52 percent to 39 percent.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=1&u=/ap/20041014/ap_on_el_pr/debate_analysis



Optical illusion or is Bush the size of an Oompa Loompa?

[RafterMan]

1. Fournier

seems to have had his pod removed.

What's gotten into this guy? He was snark central a few months ago.

[fishwax]

2. "He really doesn't have much of a choice, does he?"

It's pretty funny to hear a republican saying this, obvious though it may be to the rest of us :)

[Mz Pip]

3. Is a Ooompa Loompa

the same as a twit???

Bush is a twit. Just like the Monty Python "Upper Class Twit of the Year" skit. Bush would win that though he ight have some difficulty unhitching a bra off a manequin.
MzPip
:dem:

[rwenos]

6. Nigel St.John Mollusk

is INSULTED! How dare you compare that . . . .American! to Nigel, who could not even shoot himself without three tries?

[senseandsensibility]

4. OMG

Fournier was the one journalist I e-mailed before the debate asking for fair coverage. I'm sure that's what did it. LOL.

[LVdem]

5. No optical illusion...

His is an Oompa Loompa.