Debate Running Diary!
08:34:33 pm- We’re coming to you live from Oxford street in Rochester, with the official Run With Scissors.org debate running diary! Dinners been served, the beers are chilling, and I’m treating this like the Super Bowl, and Stanley Cup rolled together with much more dire consequences. Kerry’s been having a good week, but tonights the night.
08:37:07 pm - Myself and Dan E have already decided that Kerry should have hired Patriot’s coach Bill Bellicheck to run his campaign, Bush would have had no chance.
08:56:42 pm - Let’s go Kerry! Clap clap, clap clap clap! Let’s Kerry!
09:01:50 pm - Holy shit, I think the moderator just got out of a Botox session.
09:03:13 pm - John Kerry should come out like Ivan Drago in Rocky IV and slam Bush’s fists. “I must break you!”
09:08:06 pm - Woohoo! CSPAN is showing the split view. I’m watching Kerry take notes on how many words Bush uses with more than 6 letters. So in other words, he’s standing patiently, waiting.
09:10:07 pm - Wow, George got a word a day calendar! Big word, used in the right context. Looks like Kerry’s count just jumped to one.
09:11:20 pm - Just noticed that CSPAN is making the candidates look like the same height, so the bottom 20% of bushes screen is his desk.
09:14:45 pm - Kerry just held his own well talking about Afghanistan vs. Iraq.
09:21:46 pm - rarr! Bush says taxes bad! And how does he plan to pay for all of his programs!?
09:24:39 pm - Bush is talking about making the FBI stronger, but he hired Torkel, now that’s a flip flop.
09:26:15 pm - Bush is getting frazzled, tough question about when is a good time to bring home troops. He’s starting to stall and stutter. For another Rocky IV reference, “he’s cut the Russian, and the Russian is cut bad!” (And yes, I’ve referred to Kerry as both Rocky and Drago now, go with it).
09:29:23 pm - Good hit by Kerry quoting Bush Sr. on not occupying Iraq. We also have our first Kerry in Vietnam reference. Bush has also just butted in for his own response.
09:31:35 pm - Kerry just got the “last man to die for a mistake question”, seems to be doing ok so far. The FDR/Mexico line was good.
09:36:19 pm - The Bush um and uhh count is off the chart right now.
09:45:05 pm - Bush just started the name dropping of people he’s met on the trail.
09:45:21 pm - Apparently Bush just figured out that Iraq is hard work, good to see he figured it out 2 years later.
09:47:33 pm - Kerry just had a great line, “don’t confuse the war with the warriors”. Great way to shut down the “why don’t you support the troops” argument.
09:53:40 pm - Um, who’s saying that Muslims don’t want freedom, Bush keeps acting like he’s bringing up chimps to be leaders. That’s what Republicans do for him, not vice versa.
10:07:46 pm - I think Kerry’s done a great job of getting his point across. I don’t know how much longer Bush can run while constantly stuttering and pausing. Kerry just sounds better.
10:13:33 pm - Apparently you can’t lead America if you send Mexican misses, or whatever Bush is saying now.
Next day redux: Kerry really knocked last night out of the ballpark. I hope you enjoy the 24 hour delayed blog. I had some work, drinking and editiing to do.