"Lets face it, if Bush had clearly won we would be crowing that it was over. The President didn't perform as well as he has in the past tonight and thats bad and we ought not to put on the rose colored glasses and call it sweet victory as so many are prone to do here. But Reagan lost his first debate also. We have two to go and Kerry expectations will be sky high now."
I did not hear one lie out of President Bush's mouth and that makes him the winner. JFKerry was a babel of lies and deception. He spoke more fondly of himself, the mental Il, and his fellow travelers than he did of any American citizen.
President Bush showed leadership by not jumping into JFKerry's quagmire of lies.
"Lets face it, if Bush had clearly won we would be crowing that it was over."
True. And we'd be wrong.
It's a cumulative thing. Bush didn't jsut suddenly lose ground he's been building in the swing states, and when the ads come revealing all the lies Kerry said...I'd rather be where Bush is now. That's not hyperbole; I'd be shouting and yahooing if their positions were reversed earlier tonight; right now, I wouldn't want to be Kerry, though, now that the sheen is wearing off.