Who noticed when they first shook hands, Kerry pulled bush toward him

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

and spoke to him, thus keeping bush near him a few seconds longer?

He TOTALLY did that on purpose, so people could see the height difference.

You could tell bush wanted to chew his own arm off to back away from Kerry.

I loved it. I knew from THAT moment bush was going to get spanked!

[cheshire]

1. I thought maybe Kerry told turd. I'm going to kick your ass. Great moment

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. I noticed it LMAO...Chimp ended up having to yank his hand away

KERRY ROCKED

[The Traveler]

3. Oh, it is more than that

When a man does that to another man, it means, "I accept you, and I am in control of this meeting between us."

How ya doin' tonight, bud? I'm still bouncing around the room. Our man kicked the Shrub's ass tonight ... spanked that bad boy in public.

[The Traveler]

4. Oh, it is more than that

When a man does that to another man, it means, "I accept you, and I am in control of this meeting between us."

How ya doin' tonight, bud? I'm still bouncing around the room. Our man kicked the Shrub's ass tonight ... spanked that bad boy in public.


OK ... why did this post twice? I haven't had enough to see double ...

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

5. Oh I can't sleep

Damn I just noticed it is after 1!!!!! I am too fired up.

Plus my kid is sprawled out on my bed, asleep. Looks like she might have tonsillitis and I need to take her to the dr first thing. But even she managed a weak high five with me earlier over the debate!!!

How are you?

[The Traveler]

On a personal basis

complicated. However, my inner political junkie is a happy man tonight!!!

My hopes were deflating. Now, they rise again. Victory is not certain, but neither is defeat. There is still a chance to retrieve this country from the darkness that threatens to engulf it.

[cheshire]

6. Poor baby, hope she's well soon. sounds like a good moment.

[The Traveler]

10. Tonsilitis bites

Ice cream and hugs are a pretty good treatment. (Had lots of problems with that before puberty ... ice cream and cuddling got me thru.)

[Doohickie]

13. Hope your kid gets to feeling better

Give her our love & prayers.

(but not "love" like Bush meant "love"- I'm not even sure what he meant!)

[ComerPerro]

26. That time then, and once again, I'm bouncing 'round the room

[SoCalDemocrat]

7. The photo being run is arm extended

I noticed. In spite of that the point where Bush had arm extended and was leaning back as far as he could to avoid the comparison is the photo that I'm seeing circulating in the media.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. I anticipated that and had a great feeling immediately

Absolutely perfect by Kerry. He pulled Bush close but not too close and held the handshake for just long enough without overdoing it. Plus he looked to the audience instead of staring at Bush's eyes in a show of needless respect.

[Leilani]

9. It was a really good opening!

It showed Kerry was in charge, & to undecideds & unexperienced viewers it looked like Kerry was being very friendly.

[ClassWarrior]

11. I saw that too Moonbeam, and JK made it look effortless.

Classy move.

btw... I read your good news about your family earlier. BIG congrats!! I know TWO hardcore RWers who are DEFINITELY voting JK/JE.

23.

[Beetwasher]

12. Yup, Bush Pulled Away Viciously and Was DEFINITELY Rattled...

I totally caught that...

It's a very dominant signal...Kerry held him longer and Bush blinked...It's fucking deep and tribal and ancient in it's symbolic weight...

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. You nailed it beetwasher

deep and tribal and ancient. And hard core.

[Beetwasher]

15. Kerry OWNED Bush In That Moment

It was done from that moment. The rest was merely icing...

Bush met a man and he knew it at that moment.

[starroute]

18. I read once that humans can tell in seconds who's dominant

When it comes to figuring out the pecking order, we're even quicker than chickens.

And at that moment, Kerry and Bush and 40 million people all knew what was what and who was the alpha male.

Got a new leader of the pack, kiddies.

[madrchsod]

16. it`s more than height difference

guys and gals----in the real world that`s called intimidation,no doubt about that-bush was fuck`n scared-i`d imagine kerry has a grip like a vise and then used it-then the pull-i`m taking your space mother-fucker what you going to do about it?

[PurityOfEssence]

17. Gosh, imagine that

What's better than that is that Kerry's microphone stand was MUUUUCH longer than Junior's...

Funny how when you try to "equalize" things, you only accentuate the difference. With every cut from Bush to Kerry or from Kerry to Bush, the OBVIOUS difference in manly microphone length was obvious.

What are the comparative shoe and glove sizes?

How silly.

[eridani]

22. Probably not the only thing muuuch longer than Junior's n/t

[crispini]

24. bwahahahaha!

[incapsulated]

19. Kerry's people SAID that he would do this!

At first I thought, "that's stupid, why let them on?" but Bush's handlers obvioulsy had no clue what to do, lol!

[TrustingDog]

20. evident that Bush didn't have his Rove Earpiece on... LOL!

what a bastard ignorant stumbing fool.
Hopefully this was shown to a few million more tonight.

[GreggDem]

21. Isnt Bush 5.8

He has a short height inferiority complex and would have been rattled by Sen Kerry's height.:)

[demwing]

23. Dont want to pat my own back, but I predicted this to my wife

I said I thought Kerry should grab Bush and pull him into a handshake. It would make Bush look shorter, and make Kerry look a
little macho.

But, I also predicted that Kerry would pat Bush on the head.

I guess I can't get 'em all.

[JCMach1]

25. Followed my suggestion from a few days ago on DU

Are we haunted by Kerry staffers???