Monday, October 04, 2004
I didn't actually see the Bush/Kerry face-off last week and I'm kind of regretting it, because it seems like it was great fun and we could have pretended to ourselves for a moment that Kerry was going to win the presidency. As it is, I'm having to make do with second hand reports of Bush choking on what's supposed to be his specialised subject, "Terror and the inflicting of it on the American people". I suspect though that in the long run he'll be saved by the proportion of the American people who's specialised subject is "The rest of the world and the not giving a shit about it". Never mind whether Nader splits the vote or not, we should send back all the Americans who live in other parts of the world, they seem to be the only ones who are aware of exactly how much more difficult Bush has made it to be an individual from the U.S.A. outside of it.
Anyway, it's been interesting to see what Bush's friends have been doing to try and distract people from the reason for Bush's poor performance, being that he's a dimwit who has never had to justify any decision he's made in his life, he has no proof for anything he says or does and invaded Iraq for a number of psychological reasons involved with trying to beat his Dad at something and the hopes that a really big fireworks show will distract people from his manifest failings as a human being. Fox tried the unusual tactic of suggesting that Kerry was the only gay in the beltway. When called, they did give a sort of apology, much like a school kid looking down at his shoes and mumbling something because he doesn't want to be seen to apologise to the weedy kid he was punching. However, they then moved on to finding some Communists who supported Kerry, except that this is actually a Republican group which supposedly uses satire to expose how socialism doesn't work (whereas the Republican party presumerably uses real life to expose capitalism's shortcomings).
And Drudge is at it, claiming Kerry had a cheat sheet. Let's see, Kerry is behind on points and the Republicans are jumping on everything he does and inventing stuff wildly when he doesn't. Kerry's weakness is considered not to be his knowledge but rather his patrician-like performance. Both participants have been forbidden to bring anything to the debate. So why would Kerry cheat? I can see Bush doing it, possibly, because I'm not convinced that in the evening he can remember what he had for breakfast, but I can't see a reason why Kerry would cheat, unless it was a script that said in big letters: "Bush is a poo-poo head. Get angry at him!!!1!"
Anyway, it's been interesting to see what Bush's friends have been doing to try and distract people from the reason for Bush's poor performance, being that he's a dimwit who has never had to justify any decision he's made in his life, he has no proof for anything he says or does and invaded Iraq for a number of psychological reasons involved with trying to beat his Dad at something and the hopes that a really big fireworks show will distract people from his manifest failings as a human being. Fox tried the unusual tactic of suggesting that Kerry was the only gay in the beltway. When called, they did give a sort of apology, much like a school kid looking down at his shoes and mumbling something because he doesn't want to be seen to apologise to the weedy kid he was punching. However, they then moved on to finding some Communists who supported Kerry, except that this is actually a Republican group which supposedly uses satire to expose how socialism doesn't work (whereas the Republican party presumerably uses real life to expose capitalism's shortcomings).
And Drudge is at it, claiming Kerry had a cheat sheet. Let's see, Kerry is behind on points and the Republicans are jumping on everything he does and inventing stuff wildly when he doesn't. Kerry's weakness is considered not to be his knowledge but rather his patrician-like performance. Both participants have been forbidden to bring anything to the debate. So why would Kerry cheat? I can see Bush doing it, possibly, because I'm not convinced that in the evening he can remember what he had for breakfast, but I can't see a reason why Kerry would cheat, unless it was a script that said in big letters: "Bush is a poo-poo head. Get angry at him!!!1!"
