1. John Edwards is one good-looking, intelligent, well-spoken son of a gun.
2. That Cheney guy is mean. Mean, mean, mean, mean, mean!
3. John Edwards has empathy to burn.
4. Cheney has none, unless it's for other mean, old, corrupt CEO types.
5. John Edwards has a lot of confidence in the guy at the top of his ticket.
6. Cheney mentioned Bush about as often as speakers at the GOP convention mentioned Osama Bin Laden.
7. They both have compassion for gay people.
8. Only one of them pursues policies to persecute gay people.
9. Cheney "honors John Kerry's service in Vietnam" blah blah blah.
10. John Kerry, John Edwards, and Dick Cheney are all light years smarter and more articulate than Mr. Messed Mixage, who'd better get his game on this Friday.
Posted by Vernam at October 5, 2004 10:06 PMDire and looking pooped. Both Bush and he are clearly showing the wear and tear of office.
Given we've got more to slog through, in the next few years, some yoot and vitality are going to serve the country well. I'll take windsurfers and the eternally young who speak the truth, over long resumes and flim-flam artists any day.
Posted by: deano at October 6, 2004 12:54 PM>Not nearly as one sided as the
>1st K-W debate.
Nor the second and third, I'm betting. Cheney is so dire, isn't he? Like he's the only one who absorbed the lessons of 9/11.
Dick, we all know a terrorist nuke attack is possible or even likely, especially thanks to the hatred you've helped to fan into a bonfire. Let someone else worry about it now, OK?
He certainly was resolute tonight, at least when it came to not answering the questions Gwen Ifill posed.
Posted by: VC at October 6, 2004 01:30 AMDid I hear Cheney thank ‘Missouri,’ in the beginning?
Not nearly as one sided as the 1st K-W debate. It is so pathetic the weakest mind of the 4 is the soon to be ex-president.
BTW, DailyKos has already debunked the “I never met you before tonight” lie: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/5/234647/200
Edwards did what he had to do: played it tough and kept nailing Cheney as the crusty old special interest politico, serving corporate America and not the American people. That worked.
And isn’t it funny how few times Cheney mentioned the guy on top of his ticket, compared to Edwards name-checking Kerry?
Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday…I can smell the kill.
CNN's quick post-debate poll shows Edwards was viewed as the winner by 77 percent to just 18 percent for Cheney. The old guy's personal attacks were a huge turnoff.
The only network claiming Cheney did well (ABC) openly admits they polled more Republicans than Democrats or uncommitteds! And even at that, Mean Ol' Dick barely came out on top. His gratuitous lie about never having met Edwards is going to be the story tomorrow. One of many unforced errors.
Posted by: VC at October 5, 2004 10:51 PMI think VC would admit that, for as long as I've known him, his perceptions are purposefully and wildly far from the mainstream ... and proud of it!!! Your inpressions of tonight's debate are no exception. In this way you are much more consinstent and predictable than Senator Flip Flop.
I think tonight we saw one "show horse" and one
"workhorse" ... substance vs style.
At least Edwards didn't make a fatal "pass a global test" error.