The 1st Debate

I will join everyone else and give my take on last nights debate. I don't care how much you agree with Bush or disagree with Kerry, you have to admit that in purely debate terms Kerry kicked Bush's ass. I think people mistake who they like, with who did a better job. But I one agree with Kerry and saw how he did a better job, so I felt pretty damn good. Like Jon Stewart put it, people finally got to move past "voting against Bush" to actually "voting for Kerry."

Bush looked annoyed, flustered, uncomfortable and just overall defensive. He had the 9/11 classroom face on for a bit which I thought was interesting. It is nice to see the man stripped in part from his advisors. He repeated things so many times (mixed signals), but sometimes it just seemed like he didn't know what to say and was just waiting for the time to run out. I won't go into the issues because if you don't understand them by now, you are just lying to yourself.


I don't know if this this help Kerry in the polls, but I hate to think that Americans are this dumb. I'd rather believe they are all smart and evil Republicans who want their puppet and want to continue their way of life of keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. To think people actually buy the bullshit, just makes me feel bad about the state of things.

I had a small debate gathering at my place. It was fun and I plan to do it again.

I'll end with some choice words by Michael Moore wrote a while back I found pretty interesting:

It's never over for Republicans until the last ballot is shredded.They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.

They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day wreaking havoc on the planet.

Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies. Bush gets a bounce after his convention and you would have thought the Germans had run through Poland again. Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

No, it is not. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.But WE are not running for president-- Kerry is.

So quit complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just gave 300 women a... Pontiac! Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and screaming, "Oh God, NOT a friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not, they were happy. The Pontiacs all had four wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't help you. I had a Pontiac once and it lasted a good year. And it was a VERY good year.

So, do not despair. All is not over. Far from it. The Bush people need you to believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another four years of George W. Bush. They need you to wish we had a candidate who didn't windsurf and who was just as smart as we were when WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam planning 9/11. It's like Karl Rove is hypnotizing you -- "Kerry voted for the war...Kerry voted for the war...Kerrrrrryyy vooootted fooooor theeee warrrrrrrrrr..."

Yes...Yes...Yesssss....He did! HE DID!

Instead of the wailing and gnashing of your teeth, why not hold out a hand to him and help the inner soldier/protester come out and defeat the forces of evil we now so desperately face. Do we have any other choice?