Friday, October 01, 2004 :::
I couldn't resist not commenting on the so called debate last night. I don't think the candidates really changed anybody's mind. That whole thirty-two pages of rules deal is almost enough to make me vote for Nader.
Here is what I thought was a kind of amusing narrative of the debate.
Courtesy of the above blog, I love this transcription of one of Bush's answers:
"Uhh actually we've increased uhhh funding for ... umm ... uh ... f-for uhh ... dealing with nuclear proliferation. By about 35% since I've been the President. And secondly, uhh, we've s-set up what's called the ... well, first of all, I agreed with the ... my opponent that the ... biggest threat facing this country is weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist network. And that's why ... we've ... put proliferation as the ... one of the centerpieces of a multi-prong strategy to make the country safer. Umm ... My administration started what's called the Proliferation Security Initiative-ves-s. Over 60 nations involved with ... disrupting ... umm ... the trans-shipment of information and/or ... uh ... weapons of mass destruction materials."
Its unfortunate politics has been debased to the 15 second sound byte. One of the things I like about Kerry, and he showed this last night, is that the man actually speaks in paragraphs.
