« Ethan on Wikipedia | Main | David Weinberger: "Brad Doesn't Suck. Brad is our Future" » The Veeps We have two debates related to the 2004 presidential contest behind us now; consensus is that the first was a win for John Kerry (against a jumpy, erratic George Bush whose jittery tongue-tied performance was almost painful to watch), and the second was more of a draw between John Edwards and a cool, collected Dick Cheney. An exception to the consensus on last night's debate: the MSNBC crew of pundits gave the debate to Cheney, feeling that he had blown Edwards away on several points, which is not what I was seeing, and I'm not quite sure what trick of perspective set them apart from the rest of us. I do think they were trying to be objective, and the NBC news crew was quick to produce a clip of Dick Cheney explicitly saying there was a connection between Hussein and Al-Qaeda – Cheney denied during the debate that he never made that connection. The synapses pop and crackle and fade when you're getting old, and you can forget these things. (Cheney also forgot that he'd met John Edwards before, but Elizabeth Edwards was quick to remind him post-debate, we hear. I was relieved to hear that: I figured a Vice President, since he presides over the Senate, would have met all the senators by now unless he was indifferent to his critical role in the process.) jon posted this at 9:15 AM |
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