I swear to God, I have NEVER seen anything like this

[WilliamPitt]

I have never seen such a one-sided contest in my life. Bush looks like a deer in the headlights.

[Riddler]

This is so one-sided

I'm beginning to wonder how the media whores are going to spin this into a Bush win?

[SoCalDem]

4. Here's how they'll do it..

Kerry was so MEEEEEEEEEEEAN to the poor president..:)

[sbj405]

5. He's resolute

Of course, he said the same damn thing 10 times over.

[Skittles]

37. THAT will be interesting

Did you see The Daily Show last night, when Steve Cobert had already written the review of the debate, spinnning it for Bush - BEFORE the debate? Methinks they'll at least have to do SOME amending.

Welcome to the DU, Riddler! :hi:

[alteredstate]

46. Can't wait to see how Faux News will try to spin this

Bush is orange; he's repeating himself; and he's nearly foaming at the mouth!!

[Smacker]

56. Finally figured it out

It's been hard work. Real hard work. But I've finally figured it out. Now I get it. Hard work, though. Here it is - the next president is the one who knows how to pronounce nuclear.

[SoCalDem]

1. He's a pathetic little puffball

A weaseled out weenie :)

[bo44]

75. He is a dookkkie stain eom

[tjdee]

2. You are quite right.

Maybe we both need to listen to Paula Zahn after so she can tell us how we're wrong?


Kerry is doing a great job tonight.

[umtalal]

what is she going to say????

[phoebe]

3. it's glorious isn't it??

[jumpstart33]

6. Will, usually agree with you, but Kerry is not doing what he needs to do.

He is letting Bush keep on with the mantra and the brain-dead ditto heads will store that in their minds because Kerry will not directly refute Bush's statements about sending the wrong message.

[Gin]

it's called......."rope a dope"

g

[WilliamPitt]

13. How can he stop him if he can't directly engage him?

Res ipsa loquitor.

The thing speaks for itself.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Kerry is beating Bush* -- too bad you can't see it. nt

[Smacker]

92. If only...

If only - Kerry had said 'worst president ever'
If only - Kerry had said 'He obviously finds this to be hard work'
If only - * finally gave in and threw up over the podium, like father like son
If only - Karl Rove had rushed on stage and smacked * upside the groin

[July]

26. Dittoheads are lost to us anyway.

We're going for people who really are comparing the two men.

[blm]

33. Dittoheads, yes. Average voting Americans, no. Big difference.

.

[leftchick]

49. uh no...the freepers are freaking out right now....

there is a thread on this forum with a link. It is hysterical. They are so freaking out!

[Free2BMe]

53. he's doing what he has to do and very effectively

[Free2BMe]

54. he's doing what he has to do and very effectively

[Kool Kitty]

7. Ain't that the truth?

This is bad, bad, bad. Calling out Bush on building the 14 bases and guarding the oil industry, not the weapons caches and stockpiles. Bush is coming across as uninformed, insincere, defensive and stumbling. It is a joy to behold.

[mconvente]

16. great point

blood for oil without saying it outright. this is amazing! Bush is on his back side!

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Actually he looks pissed

or is that snippy? I love it! :bounce: Oh and btw, it's Hard Work for the umpteenth time! .................

[DemBones DemBones]

24. Bush* is both pissed AND snippy. Also TOAST! nt

[Auntie Bush]

32. Yeah...Get out the Jelly!

[missouri dem]

It's hard work

It's hard work and I'm just not up to the job. It's hard work and i'm just not smart enough. It's hard work and I need a drink.

[Generic Other]

91. Did he say it was hard work to love the wives of dead soldiers?

It's such hard work to be president 2 days a week. In fact it's such hard work he needs a permanent vacation.

[blondeatlast]

9. Watch on CNNfn if possible.

They are measuring brainwave patterns of the studio audience, and Bunny is DYING; LIVE.

[rumguy]

31. How can they measure that?

And who is bunny?

[Skittles]

39. "bunnypants"

nickname for that f***wit

[Bunny]

80. He has certainly ruined a perfectly good name, hasn't he?

Sigh.

[Bunny]

83. He has certainly ruined a perfectly good name, hasn't he?

Sigh.

[Bunny]

86. Whoops! Did I say that twice? n/t

[bo44]

78. dookkkie stained bunnypants

[DemBones DemBones]

40. WOW!!! Now I'm putting CNNfn on TiVo, too -- wish

I'd known at the beginning. I have all of the debate from C-SPAN on TiVo, love how they have the split screen, makes it so obvious how much taller Kerry is if you compare the level of the podium top to each man's suit breastpocket, not to mention Kerry's microphone having to be twice as tall!

[jerryster]

10. Agreed

Looks that way to me. I admit to a morbid curiosity about what our freeper cousins are saying.

[knowbody0]

i think he just pooped his pants

[burythehatchet]

11. I heard a comment today on Franken's show that stuck with me

This is the first time bushtail has ever had to keep a job. Think about it first time ever. Typical sales guy

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

Kerry looks cool as a cucumber. Shrub is so on the defensive.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

19. Kerry looks cool as a cucumber. Shrub is so on the defensive.

[liveoaktx]

12. So much fun!!!!!! I had LOW EXPECTATIONS but this is high camp!

[Rose Siding]

27. It really is, even without any Daily Show editing

I'm just giddy! ROFLMAO non. stop.

[Loki]

14. Say goodnight George.

and dream of Nixon.

[Bat Boy]

17. I am so fucking geeked right now...

I'm vibrating. I haven't been this excited about Kerry since the whole thing started.

[annabanana]

18. That tall man on the TV....HE'S a President!

[DrWeird]

20. Humor me by answering a question.

Ever better than the debate where Clinton totally hammered Bush I?

[GingerSnaps]

21. His eyes are blinking so fast it looks like Morse Code messages to Rove

LOL

[Lex]

22. Bush keeps whining out the same, old tired talking points.

Whining and wheedling.

[Career Prole]

You're right Will...and tomorrow the corporate media will try to convince

folks that shrub didn't get his ass handed to him tonight.
But it's gonna spin like a lead cube. :toast:

[phoebe]

23. "Allawi is a brave, brave man" - don't think so

he IS a puppet -

* interrupting again - Jim needs to do his job..

[durablend]

38. Allawai IS a puppet

You got it chimpy?

[MissB]

25. And that split screen on C-span

Is accentuating that deer-in-headlights look :)

[Kool Kitty]

28. "25 million people belong to be free."

And the "my opponent doesn't think that Muslims can be free" slur. Go get 'im, Johnny.

[Fleshdancer]

29. Bush was thrown off his game early

He's now frustrated which is when he makes the most mistakes. He's stumbling, saying "uh" too much, looking down alot, and not on message. He's now resorting to emotional based arguments.

Keep irritating him Kerry!

[Jacobin]

30. I don't think the "sympathy" bounce back he had with Gore

among the Special Olympics Presidents voters will work this time.

He is just too fucked up. Fucked up beyond belief. Kerry is cool and in control and I think the undecideds will have to shift our way.

[gollygee]

34. This is more fun than I thought it would be :)

we keep pausing on tivo we're laughing so hard so we're a few minutes behind now.

[spanone]

35. ...And watch the media call it for bush*

[deadparrot]

36. Holy shit. I admit that I was nervous as hell...

now I'm so happy I'm sick to my stomach.

KERRY! KERRY! KERRY!

[Skittles]

41. Bush just SIGHED!!!!!!!!!!!

HA HA, HA HA HA HA

[ochazuke]

42. List of bushy signals

He's blinking like 100 times a minute.
He takes a drink every three minutes.
He leans on the pedestal like he can't stand on his own feet.
And he seems hunched over
He doesn't use his hands at all. I supsect they're trembling.
He's SMIRKING again!!!!
He has his lips in a constant pursing position during the replies.
He seems uncomfortable in his suit.
His legs are rocking back and forth.

Care to add?

[Kool Kitty]

48. I hope you all are watching this on C-SPAN.

They are showing it split-screen, with all the reactions. W's are really telling. And boy, is he defensive about the World Court! Kerry is hitting all the right buttons.

[ochazuke]

52. I'm watching on ABC

It's split screen about half the time. Is it split ALL the time on C-span.

In contrast to my list of Bushy Signals, Kerry is standing straight and tall, seems at ease, CONFIDENT.

[Digit]

61. * is loosing it!

Cable is on the TV in the other room, but I just HAD to come in to type this message. I am shocked at how badly * is doing. I thought he had been so prepped for the debates.
* could have been up against a mannequin.....he just doesn't have any answers and is coming unglued.
Kerry in contrast is so Presidential.
I am astounded the contrast is so incredible. I thought they would doctor it up more or something. Guess you can't put lipstick on a pig. (grin)

[LiberalFighter]

81. Isn't excessive blinking a sign of lying?

[Smacker]

85. Bushy signals explained

Please, let's try to be objective about this. Wouldn't you be blinking 100 times a minute, hands trembling, hunching over, with your legs rocking back and forth, if you were also sitting on a 50,000V cattle prod?

[bread_and_roses]

43. YES YES YES

mumbling hard work hard work hard work saddam terra saddam hard work. Kerry sounds informed, strong, certain.

[Auntie Bush]

44. Bush looks like he's having mini seizures live on TV

He's darn right distracting. I can't keep my eye on the lights!

[Booster]

45. After drinking all that water, Bush is going to have to

come right out and say "I've got to pee". What a doofus.

[ochazuke]

50. He's already wet himself.

And probably dehydrated. Let him drink all he wants.

[speedoo]

67. can't even say "mixed messages" straight anymore.

said it too many times.

[spanone]

47. the fool* is showing his true colors

[Swamp Rat]

51. KERRY IS BEATING THE SHIT OUTTA BUSH!

He could beat him with half his brain tied behind his back. Bush's brain is nearly gone from all the drug use.

[ochazuke]

55. This is KENNEDY-NIXON on STEROIDS

Like a parody of the famous 1960 debate. Only 1/3 left.

[progressivebydesign]

57. Bush is reading the answers!! I hate that!! n/t

[bread_and_roses]

58. "Back door draft"

Yes, he said it...and now on Darfur, he sounds both knowlegable and committed - and outraged by the atrocity! I am impressed.

on edit: sorry, this isn't the blow-by-blow thread, so I won't do that again...I was just so impressed by his response. And on the Sudan, Bush sounds droning and disinterested...no outrage, no compassion, no ideas.

[kodi]

59. You said it Will. Kerry's beating Bush's ass like he stole money

never saw anything like it either.

[Triana]

60. Kerry is SO well-spoken and articulate...

..I'm duly impressed. I don't give a rat what the media says (I'm listening to CSPAN), Kerry is kicking ass. He gives detailed answers (when they're asked for) and says definitively "I want", and "my plan is..." - he's articulate and is IS PRESIDENTIAL. ANYONE who comes away from this whining that Kerry doesn't say what he's gonna doooooooooooo!" must be a deaf, blind, mute.

'Nuff said...

bu$hit is running in circles - he's said 'mixed messages' and 'changed positions' way, WAY too many times and he's babbling up a storm. God, it's pathetic. bu$hit should just move out of the White House NOW...

[smirkymonkey]

62. Kerry is spouting FACTS and STATISTICS!

I almost forgot what a real president sounds like! For four long years we have had to listen to nothing but mindless drivel and lies.

What a breath of fresh air!

The chimp is OVER!

[txindy]

63. If * keeps blinking like that,

he's gonna blow me right out of my chair. Seriously. What's up with all of the twitchy, blinky, staring behavior * is showing?! He's freaking me out! And if he drapes himself over that podium any farther, the Faux News cameras are doing to show us every inch of that podium to make him look as tall or taller than Kerry. Sheesh! Even my kids noticed that. They're howling with laughter at this jumpy act unravelling in front of them on national TV.

We all agree in this house -- John Kerry is AWESOME!!!

[Guaranteed]

64. Kerry is KICKING THE SHIT OUT OF BUSH!!! NT

[amazona]

65. it's worse than Reagan

God, I used to think it was cruel the way they would roll out Ronald Reagan like a wind-up puppet but this...this is just sad. Bush belongs in the Betty Ford Clinic or something not on TV.

[Catherine Vincent]

66. and they also have the same tan..in fact Bush looks more tan.

Fucking Drudge!

[onecent]

68. No water in his glass...I saw it....ROFL

[Tatiana]

69. Lord, this is a SLAUGHTER!

Once again Kerry NAILS Bush... eloquently illustrating the difference between certainty, certainty in making decisions based upon new information learned, and pure STUBBORNNESS.

[xyboymil]

76. Wow...Bush has been on the defensive the entire debate!

[Contrary1]

70. This is painful to watch, even for a Kerry Supporter

Shrub looks like a drunken Johnny Carson.

[Texas_Dem]

71. You hit the nail on the head. It is very painful

to watch Shrub melt like a snowball in hell.

[Catt03]

73. "Alfred" would be a tougher oppenent for Kerry tonight!

[Smacker]

96. Painful? What painful?

Painful to watch Shrub melt like a snowball in hell? Those of us who know about pain have lived as sentient beings for the last four years. Puleeze. Painful in the ribs, with the thought of not living in hell for much longer.

[Contrary1]

97. A pleasure pain...

:toast:

[Evil Liberal]

72. Bushmaster looks like he is filling his diaper..

I'm waiting to see the spin on this debate, to see just how Fox News and others try to insist that GW somehow won..

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

74. Is Bush shrinking?

It seems like he's getting shorter and shorter before my eyes.

[delete_bush]

87. I think it's called the Dopler, or in this

case, the Dopeler, effect.

[delete_bush]

77. and most if not all of us were pissed

because this is, after all, not really a debate.

I can only imagine what this get-together would have been like if the format allowed them to question each other. The entire planet would see a sitting President have a complete breakdown.

So maybe the format, after all, worked. Otherwise, a window would have opened for China, N. Korea, or hell, even N. Dakota, to attack us before the idiot in charge starts packing come next January.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

79. I love Kerry. I love Kerry. I love Kerry. I love Kerry.

I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him.

I LOVE HIM!!!!

[autorank]

82. DOWN GOES BUSH. DOWN GOES BUSH. DOWN GOES BUSH.

[tedzbear]

99. Bush promises all volunteer army...

He IS desperate.

[MsConduct]

84. Hand bush a kleenex, he's ready to cry, that's why he's blinking.

[LWolf]

88. I'm glad to hear it.

I caught the first 10 minutes on NPR on the way home, walked through the door to ringing phones and family crises, and had to turn it down to deal with all the fires. Real fires, not small things. I've missed most of it.

Which is fine; I just want to know that Kerry showed him in a glaringly realistic light. I didn't really miss hearing * repeat "America has changed since 9/11," etc. as the mantra to excuse every atrocity he has committed.

I'm off to watch the rest.

[are_we_united_yet]

89. Looks like

may not be buying those three rounds after all Will.

-phew-

:)

[Richardson08]

90. Does * want to drink anymore water?

[Sugarbleus]

98. It seems to me, several of those glasses were empty....lol

He FINALLY found one with liquid in it.

[kwolf68]

93. Andrea Mitchell

Is running the first wave of the Full Court Press. Her sole purpose on that Matthews show is to trash Kerry. She makes Scarbororough look Liberal. And Ron Reagan isn't saying anything...he's just making a few points. The Newsweek guy isn't anything either.

[Zorra]

94. A deer in the headlights? More like roadkill.

Bwaaahaaaahaaaahaaaa.

RW talking heads begin their spin on the debate:

[AmerDem]

95. CRACK>>>>HOMERUN!!!

Kerry kicked ass!:bounce: :kick: :bounce: :kick: :bounce: :kick:

[ngGale]

100. It even surprised me, I would have never thought...

Bush would FAIL so bad. I LOVE it, go JOHN KERRY!

[norml]

101. Bush sounded like a whiney frat boy,explaining why...

Bush sounded like a whiney frat boy,explaining why he drove the family car into a swimming pool. "Can anyone deny that the world is a safer place because I drove that car into the pool?" He also sounded like Peter Pan,trying to get us to believe in Tinkerbell. "In order for the policy to work,you've got to believe." Kerry played the stern principal,and Captain Hook,to the wayward boy Bush,by spanking him with many reality checks.