My message to all Spinmeisters @ RNC: Forget it. Go to sleep…;-)
Posted : October 1, 2004 at 12:23 am [America/Los_Angeles]
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It seems to me that Kerry slammed this thing out of the ballpark, not just on points but also on punch lines, style, and demeanor. I find it unfathomable that anyone would conclude otherwise. But obviously, some people will. Toward the end of the debate, Bush looked uncomfortable, annoyed, startled perhaps that Kerry was all of a sudden speaking so concisely. Bush started saying things like, “I know how the world works.” He also said foreign policy was “hard work”—at least 11 times. Will people find this folksy and hard-nosed—or simply exasperated and imperious? I don’t have the slightest idea. The election may be settled on the potency of those Bush buzzwords at the top of this article. After this debate, will enough people still feel that Bush owns the sole rights to them? Or did Kerry convincingly claim some rights to them himself? “I have never wilted in my life,” he said at one point, firmly—did he convince the undecideds? And did he persuade enough voters that his buzzwords—which Bush, surprisingly, made no real effort to claim for himself—are more fitting for a president?
I think United States might have just seen their next President in action: President John F. Kerry! Americans might get yet another JFK! 
Drudge Update:
Spin from President Bush’s team:
- Bush inner circle suggests Bush visit with Hurricane victims earlier in day was emotionally draining, contributed to “tired” appearance in debate…
- Debate consensus a ‘draw’
I am not surprised. I am sure there will be more. As I learnt in “Outfoxed”, when this current avataar of (Neo)Republicans can’t win an argument, they will do everything in their power to muddy the waters thereby denying the other party a clean victory. Douchebags!
- Anand
Category: United (or not) State of American Politics 2004