More Debate Thoughts

I've heard Karen Hughes say several times that the reason Bush was acting the way he did during the debate was that he was irritated by Senator Kerry's misrepresentations. Uh, Karen, why do you think Gore was sighing in 2000? It wouldn't have had anything to do with Bush repeatedly denying that the vast majority of his tax cut went to the top 1%, would it? If that's the best you've got Karen, either you or your candidate need to go back to Texas. Actually, how about both of you?

I'm looking forward to the Edwards-Cheney debate, but I've been wondering about something. Earlier in the year, the Paul O'Neill book came out and Cheney was quoted as telling O'Neill, when O'Neill objected to another round of tax cuts in 2003 because of the deficit, that "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter." To my knowledge, Cheney has never been asked about that quote, mostly because he lives in a cave when he's not trying to scare the American public, but wouldn't that be a pretty good question for him? Or at least something Edwards should mention at some point? Edwards' problem may be he's got too much material to use against Cheney...

Finally, I've been looking at the future debate schedule and I'll just throw this out as a question. Considering how the Bush campaign was reluctant to even have a town hall debate and reportedly agreed only if the first debate dealt with foreign policy, rather than the third debate, who do you think was happier then and who is happier now that this town hall debate will occur on a Friday night, before a holiday weekend, competing with baseball playoffs?

- posted by Joshua @ 1:35 PM