Biggest news from tonight is Bush/Cheney are unwilling/unable to change

[Ell09]

I was SHOCKED when Cheney received the first question on Iraq and specifically the developments involving Bremer and Rumsfeld. What did Cheney do? Continue to assert that Iraq is part of the "war on terra" AND insist that things are going well!

I'd be interested to see just how many people turned off their TV's after just that one question. It was clear after Thursday that the American people just don't buy this strategy, yet Bush/Cheney were unwilling or unable to frame their case in a better way.

MSNBC is WHORING for Cheney tonight, in an unbelievable way. The American people sided with John Edwards tonight, but the cable news media is acting like Cheney was Edwards "daddy". I saw a grumpy old man who sat on stage mumbling tonight go up against an energetic passionate speaker who won on style points alone, even if his substance wasn't as strong as hoped.

Best lines: Cheney voted AGAINST an MLK day and AGAINST Meals on Wheels and the line about not being able to take four more years of Cheneys' "experience".

The media is kidding themselves if they think the Cheney that was onstage tonight resonated with anyone who wasn't solidly GOP.

[Droopy]

1. The ability to be innovative is a liberal trait

Liberals bring in new ideas to fix problems. Conservatives just keep plugging away with old ideas. I think that distinction was very apparent tonight.

[KharmaTrain]

2. I'd Love To See A Focus Group...

Of undecided women. Wanna bet the word "Security Mom" is passe after these past two performances?

[DanTex]

3. along similar lines

I think a good talking point idea would be to liken the way Cheney tried to pretend we have a coalition to Enron accounting.

The idea being that rather than admit that we have no coalition, things are going badly, and doing something to fix it, he's just wants to stay the course, and he comes up with some crooked revised way of adding up the numbers which makes it appear that things are OK and we're actually sharing the burden with a coalition.

Well, maybe that's not a good talking point, at least not the way I have phrased it. But it does, in my opinion, describe the situation pretty well. If reality is not in line with the predictions of neocon warmongering empire theory, instead of revising the theory, they revise the reality.