GOOD read -- Kerry's as America's better daddy!

[grasswire]

An excellent take on the debate!

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-tvcolumn1oct01,1,6422921.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage

Who's your daddy?

This seemed to be the question before America's TV viewers, an hour into the first presidential debate Thursday night, when the intensely visceral and fear-producing issues of Iraq and Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein seemed to leave a choice between two father figures.

Who's the daddy, at a time when the electorate is having nightmares about unseen, vaguely understood enemies? Is it President Bush, with his look-straight-into-the-camera, folksy masculinity, the daddy who pats you on the head, gives you a slogan that isn't terribly helpful and keeps saying, though you're not sure why, that life is "hard work"?

"I just know how this world works!" Bush said at one point, like a TV dad cutting off discussion at a dinner table.

Or is it the patrician-looking Kerry, who during this campaign has suffered from an innate reserve and the withering spin of the Bush people that he's a waffler? Standing next to, or at least 10 feet from, Bush, he actually came across on TV as with-it, engaged and informed — a father who might actually know best.

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Bush came across as suddenly less qualified to be Daddy than he has been.

[Catfight]

1. I liked when Kerry told Bush that the way Bush raises his children

isn't how he does it! Bush has girls that get drunk and drive.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. I want Kerry to be my President

not my daddy. But if I had to choose a daddy from between them, that'd be easy too. It'd still be Kerry, as I like him as a person a lot.

[cprise]

3. Fascist tendencies are really coming out in Americans

Societies that pine for a political "daddy" usually end up living in right-wing police states.

This is a disgraceful article from a wannabe child, who thinks the Democratic candidate makes a better duce or fuhrer. If Kerry is a real leader amoung adults, he will do whatever he can to disabuse people of such far-right notions.

[cprise]

5. Hello?

Anyone got a clue here?

[cprise]

6. kick

[KittyWampus]

4. Bush- The Daddy Who Leases His Daughters. If This Were Iraq They'd Be

wearing a chador.

[genius]

7. W dragged Barbara by her hair across the floor at a gym mom's house

The mom had been asked by Laura to watch the girls after class. When W arrived, he was mad that they were dirty and playing in the backyard. He dragged Barbara across the floor by her hair and treated the gymnastic's mom like a servant. His language was not what one would expect from a father. The mom wrote this account serveral times in the trust the people yahoo groups back in 2001.