What did you think when Stupid shouted right over the moderator?

[AirAmFan]

That wasn't very "likable".

[Digit]

1. The nerve of him to do that!!!!!!!!!!

[Neshanic]

2. Buchanan is playing it up as "Manly".

[AirAmFan]

11. So at least 2 percent of the electorate must have liked it--the Beavis-Butthead vote

[AirAmFan]

3. Pat Buchanan picked up on it right away as the MSNCB commentary

began. Buchanan said Stupid acted very "manly", not allowing Gibson to "interrupt" him. But the way I saw, it, Stupid's time was up, and it was Gibson's turn to speak.

[graywarrior]

4. Manly. What the fuck does that mean?

He reminded me of a wife beater.

[Nay]

6. It means that there are a lot of big apes out there in Unwashedland

who think rude penis-waving is what makes a man. Pathetic.

[Nordic]

27. same mentality that says it's okay for Cheney to say "fuck yourself"

on the Senate floor.

"It made me feel better" he said.

Well, golly gee whizzikers, Bush, I hope you feel better now.

[Hog lover]

49. Probably is a wife beater

or at least verbally abusive - particularly when drinking - that's probably the real reason Laura gave him the ultimatum about the drinking.

(seen it a bunch, as I am sure many of you have)

[Bossy Monkey]

37. Ironically, 20 yrs ago in a classroom at Penn, I got in an argument w/ Pat

about public schools (I had gone to them) and he raised his voice first. Typical for him to regard losing the debate (which is universally what raising your voice equates to) is manly.

[NightTrain]

5. I was actually shocked.

It made me wonder if Bush really wants to be president for another four years.

[Nicole]

7. It confirmed my long held belief

that bush is an arrogant S.O.B.

[cheezus]

40. showing disrespect like that... from a man who DEMANDS respect

it's not like he's loose. This display of disrepect shows malice.

[susanna]

8. I thought,

"What a pompous ass."

[SudieJD]

43. Ditto!!!

I was yelling at the TV..."Shut Up And Sit Down Dummy!!"

Sudie in MN

[AP]

9. Unpresidential. Hell, that was even unresidential.

[ET Awful]

10. I would have cut his microphone for a rules violation.

It was rude, arrogant, unprofessional, discourtesous and unpresidential.

[xrepub]

21. That is the correct answer

It is not easy for a newsman to stand up to POTUS. Gwen Ifill did a better job with the VP.

[Out the Parasites]

23. I kept screeming "cut the mic...cut the mic." charlie was a wimp ass on

that one...geebus. He didn't like what he was being told...talked right over the top of Charlie...totally disrespectful!!!! No wonder no one likes him!

[ochazuke]

12. Very unpresidential, very rude. Looks like he's prone to rage

Kinda makes up for Al Gore invading his personal space. Let's hope it goes down in history in the same way.

I know it impressed the hell outta me.

[AirAmFan]

31. I like the way Kerry kept his cool and maintained a neutral expression

throughout.

[CityHall]

13. His Ritalin didn't kick in until halfway through n/t

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

47. I thought it was Paxil, but I agree on the timing n/t

[sandnsea]

14. I was horrified!!

I thought it was such a typical example of George Bush being an intimidating and pompous little ass. It was just awful. If they show the whole thing, he isn't going to come off looking good AT ALL!

[Sparkly]

15. Spoiled brat syndrome n/t

[lwin]

16. Meltdown

And I was laughing my ass off about it...

[LTR]

17. This showed Bush to be totally out of control

Notice Kerry was polite and cool? And he let Gibson finish his questions? And NEVER lost his temper?

Who do you want to have access to the nuclear football?

[ElectroPrincess]

18. Yikes!

Nuclear Football!?! Don't remind me.

[Nordic]

29. gee, maybe Bush shoulda gone to Vietnam and learned how to handle

stressful situations without losing his shit.

Could you imagine this fuckwad in combat?

He'd be holding his helmet to his head crying "mommy!"

[dignan27]

19. i thought he was gone like it was just gonna worse and worse

bush brought himself a bit more into check after that, but yes my jaw dropped.

[pdx_prog]

20. once again he was mad....

America is finally seeing him for what he is.....a corporate puppet pompous ass.......and he doesn't like it. He bombed on the first debate and his Dick didn't score any points at his either. He has resorted to yelling and whining as his new strategy.

Be gone with you George "Whiney" Bush....

[Wednesdays]

22. I thought...

"There goes another twenty or so red state electoral votes, turning to blue." :bounce:

[fishwax]

24. I thought it was great!

But then, I wanted him to fall on his face. :evilgrin: What a horrible moment for him. I've been mentioning it in all the many emails I've been sending tonight :)

[CitySky]

39. Totally with you, dude

Fishwax, I had to admit -- I threw my hands in the air and yelped, "there it is! He's lost it!"

That was AFTER I got over my fear for the physical safety of the moderator.

[fishwax]

41. I had the same reaction

jumping and whooping ... and hoping for him to push it further into total meltdown :D

[demokatgurrl]

25. I THOUGHT the moderator was going to stop him.

I also thought he was showing off, trying to look BAAAAD.

[w4rma]

26. Bush is a psycho. (nt)

[Bread and Circus]

35. Agree -- Psycho. Unbalanced. Unhinged. Angry.

[Kat45]

28. I thought he was really going to lose it then.

Too bad he didn't. But I do think it was rude, inappropriate, and should have been cut off by the moderator.

[highplainsdem]

30. I wondered if his handlers told him to do that,

and assured him that at least some pundits would praise him for it. And maybe they thought it was one way to channel the nervous energy and quick temper that went into his pathetic grimaces in the last debate.

And God knows it's always wingnut policy, whenever any of their talking heads are on talk shows, to grab as much air time as possible by interrupting.

But in this case I think it backfired with the electorate. Especially undecided female voters.

[Native]

32. I was absolutely thrilled

and then completely let down when he didn't totally lose it. I'm sure that all it would have taken to push him over the edge was one more comment from Gibson. What a loss - we were so close to having something really great to chew on for a few days.

[chaska]

33. You can tell a lot about a person by the way he treats "the help".

[barb162]

34. Stupid is really stupid and ignorant

[Dob Bole]

36. I ran through the house rejoicing to my girlfriend "Yay...

Bush isn't President anymore!!!"

I went on to say that the race was now between Kerry and Nader.

I was happy.

[Swamp Rat]

38. He lost the debate when he did that.

Kerry owed the debate tonight.

[usregimechange]

42. I thought he made a huge mistake in doing that! Tell the numb

press

[AirAmFan]

44. This may be a story DUers could provoke coverage on. Why aren't the media

the media ALL OVER this? TONIGHT they STILL replayed Al Gore invading Stupid's space four years ago. Why doesn't Stupid's meltdown rate at least a few dozen replays this weekend and beyond? What would Freepers do?

[feistydem]

45. I cheered!

I love it when he shows his aggression on camera. He is well known among friends and family for having a bad temper. It's about time he went off script. Whenever he does we see the 'real' W.

[Born_A_Truman]

46. If he did this in front of millions of Americans

I can imagine what an ass he is in private. He lost it. Again he shows his true colors.

[AirAmFan]

48. The transcript doesn't do justice to Stupid's meltdown. "CROSSTALK"

is all that is entered for most of it:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/08/debate.transcript/index.html

"KERRY: Now, I'm going to add 40,000 active duty forces to the military, and I'm going to make people feel good about being safe in our military, and not overextended, because I'm going to run a foreign policy that actually does what President Reagan did, President Eisenhower did, and others.

We're going to build alliances. We're not going to go unilaterally. We're not going to go alone like this president did.

GIBSON: Mr. President, let's extend for a minute...

BUSH: Let me just -- I've got to answer this.

GIBSON: Exactly. And with Reservists being held on duty...

(CROSSTALK)

BUSH: Let me answer what he just said, about around the world.

GIBSON: Well, I want to get into the issue of the back-door draft...

BUSH: You tell Tony Blair we're going alone. Tell Tony Blair we're going alone. Tell Silvio Berlusconi we're going alone. Tell Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland we're going alone.

There are 30 countries there. It denigrates an alliance to say we're going alone, to discount their sacrifices. You cannot lead an alliance if you say, you know, you're going alone. And people listen. They're sacrificing with us.

GIBSON: Senator?

KERRY: Mr. President, countries are leaving the coalition, not joining. Eight countries have left it.

If Missouri, just given the number of people from Missouri who are in the military over there today, were a country, it would be the third largest country in the coalition, behind Great Britain and the United States. That's not a grand coalition."