So who was on the other end of *'s earpiece?

[LiberalEsto]

It was painfully obvious that someone was telling the idiot what to say through that little earpiece.

All those dumb, blank pauses, and then suddenly he'd look up and, oh, now he knew what to say. He took a lot of awfully long pauses.

Was it Rove on the other end? The Dickster?

Also: more of that neuro-linguistic programming. He used the words "hard work," "freedom," and "mixed messages" so many times that I wanted to hurl my cookies.

What the hell does HE know about hard work? The Vacation pResident?

[eleny]

1. "Mexed mishajizz"

[Bran Bal]

2. There was no ear piece

It was plain as day he didn't know what the hell to say.

[speedoo]

3. We will never know.

Whoever it was has aleady been fired.

Shrub's first post-debate act.

[meisje]

4. Rove fell asleep

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. The dude (shrubya) was reciting his talking points reasonably smoothly the

1st 50-60 minutes, then it's like his circuitry began to fail or something.

Since the guy repeated a few of the same talking points around 5 times or so ("mixed messages/wrong war wrong time" etc.) I thought Kerry might have missed a golden opportunity to point out how the prez relies on simple talking points, repeated ad nauseum, and how this was fairly represented the type of leadership provided by this admin.

I thought Kerry did a fair to very good job pounding home the essential point that the Iraq war is a disaster that shrubya is responsible for.

[Lars39]

6. And the lonnnng pauses, too.

Kerry did an excellent job of staying on message. :)

[molly]

7. An idiot

I couple of times I thought he would lose his little-boy temper.