Saturday, October 09, 2004

Lost In Space

Seems like a fair description of George Bush's expression in the debate last night.

Looked like a 10 year old at a spelling be who just got asked to spell a word he's never heard of and has no clue how to spell.

It's amazing to me that he promotes his ability to be a strong leader, yet he had to have his handlers tell him it's not appropriate for a strong leader to make faces at your opponent in a debate, as he did in the first go round.

So last night he kept a sort of dazed semi-surprised look on his face. Not sure which was more effective.

Sure that's superficial but what was the content in the debate?

Is the most important thing to you what the president's view on stem cell research is?

Or is or what the president's view on how to -

Get people jobs that pay a livable wage. Not just jobs...liveable wage jobs.

Educate people, young and old.

Reduce prison over population by getting non-violent drug offenders (50% of our prison population) out of prisons so we can keep violent criminals or sexual predators locked up.

Provide health care for all people regardless of their ability to pay.

Stop our dependence on middle eastern oil.

Figure out a way to work with corporate America to keep jobs in our country that we want our children to aspire to (we don't care if McD's or Walmart is hiring).


There's something phony about the Town Meeting where the audience asks the questions if they don't ask any of the above. Which was pretty much the case, and those they did are covered with a 3 minute canned speech and a 1 minute canned rebuttal.

In fact according to The Borowitz Report .com the

DEBATE TRANSCRIPT WAS RELEASED ONE DAY EARLY

and

BUSH OUTSOURCES ELECTION TO INDIA

and finally, you gotta like Theresa Heinz Kerry Speakin Her Mind. Who wouldn't be a little freaked out since as Mr. Borowitz reports,

"It has been a tough few days for the Kerry campaign, which has been shadowed since Monday by a Predator drone dispatched by the Department of Homeland Security."