I'm too drunk to have fully grasped whatever they were spewing.

 

Only watched 30 minutes before switching to commentary on the debate. Finish tomorrow.

 

Watched it. Turned out about like I expected...but not as well as I hoped. Cheney's politics aside, his delivery is so calm and sure that I figured he would play well in the "Meet the Press" sort of format. Unfortunately, Edwards, while I think substantively better, was subjectively not as calm and assurred.

I think it was a slight advantage to Cheney, but I expect that it won't drastically impact the overall election. I expect the next two Presidential debates to play strongly in voters minds, though.

 

:inAgreeance:

 

I missed it. I was too busy drinking.

 

I think one of my favorite moments from the V.P. debate has got to be when Dick and Edwards went back and forth on their records, and Edwards started rattling off some of the programs Dick voted against.....Head Start.....Meals on Wheels for Seniors.... I was waiting for him to cap it off with "and he kills kittens!"

I give Edwards a lot of credit for going after Dick the way that he did. I think there was an expectation of Cheney just eating Edwards alive on stage, given his demeanor, and that didn't really happen.

 

Dick Cheney before he dicks you.

 

I was expecting a similar line. He was on a roll with that attack.

 

Cool stuff for data junkies.

Counts words and references in debates and displays numerically and graphically. Cool.

http://www.hamiltonlocke.com/campaign.html

 

Thatcher, by going to war in the Falklands at that time, distracted the country from it's various ails and ensured her long running period in office.

It used to be that nothing would unite a country more than war. The sceptic in me thinks that has changed now, or is it just that our wars are no longer for the right reasons?