[Alia]

I agree with your assessment. When VP Cheney did not take the bait, John Edwards was taken aback. The metaphysic reading of Edwards' reaction was "You brute, you brute,youbrute!" ;>

[zeebee]

That's, "Haliburton," with one "L."

[dagoofyfoot]

His rebuttal was perfect, calling it just a smoke screen to hide sad and no show voting record in the senate.


Then he bought down the hammer!

[twigs]

I liked the way that Cheney, when he knew he couldn't make a proper rebuttal in 30 seconds, directed people to the factcheck website. Unfortunately, when I checked it today, it directed me to georgesoros.com. Apparently, my boss just told me, Cheney gave the wrong address--.com, should have been .org--and GS bought the wrong website overnight to switch it over. And the proper website--factcheck.org--is down. I can't stand these people.

[j.cam]

It seemed to me he asked the moderator for more time to explain Haliburton, but she wouldn't give him more time.

[Publius6961]

But now I realize Cheney made Edwards look even smaller by not even addressing the issue.

I loved the similar bitch-slap re: the gay issue.
Cheney thanked him for his kind words and the moderatorette asked in astonishment,

"Is that it"?

"Yep"

A Kodak moment...

[1rudeboy]

. . . at the time I kept thinking, "rebutt!"

You were thinking what, exactly?

[OldFriend]

Mike Barnicle had a great line. Said at the end it was as tho Cheney said to Edwards, AND NO YOU CAN'T HAVE THE CAR KEYS!!!

[Toespi]

I would have loved Cheney to say "you are planning on outsourcing pharmaceuticals" in response to the Canadian drug issue.

[EagleUSA]

Again it is so EASY to nail the libs when you just do it. Edwards is just a space-filling liberal pretty-boy who is just reading from a script handed to him. Standard, generic, limosine liberal.

Cheney had him SO OUTCLASSED it was easy -- when you go up against someone like Cheney, you had better be good and clean. Edwards lost on both accounts. An easy kill.

[mountaineer]

The Silky Pony clearly had a list of talking points and slogans, e.g., the Haliburton nonsense, that he desperately tried to interject wherever he could, even when "answering" a question on an entirely different subject. He couldn't have been more obvious had he looked at crib notes scribbled on his shirt cuff.

[Attillathehon]

Nor was he ruffled when Edwards made his syrupy and underhanded reference to Cheney's daughter. That was a low blow, but Cheney never dignified it by responding.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing the Vice President said last night was that the VP could become President at any moment, it's happened before in our history. How anyone could look at that giddy snakeoil salesman (Edwards) and see him in the Oval Office is beyond me.