Despite the bias, depite John Kerry having the questions, despite the questions being exactly as you said, our President composed himself extremely well.
Yes he was tired.
Yes he seemed irritated.
I think the Dems may have actually done this to TRY to force President Bush to do something totally outrageous - and perhaps now we know why the 2 could not walk over to the other's podium....maybe the Dems wanted to rattle the President but not allow him to actually go over and hold up the cheat sheet for all to see saying:
"Hey Lehrer - what's this? Thought we were not to bring cheat sheets here???? Kerry didn't get the word...."
Again.....ESPECIALLY now that we know John Fraud was openly cheating and the President knew it and Lehrer knew it......
For President Bush to first go on with the debate and to do so without going over and knocking the tar out of this billionaire pretender - or without saying something hugely sarcastic or scathing against Kerry - (he did use the word absurd once....).......he, the President, WAS the clear winner!
It was clear to me that night - even moreso now!
Exactly! It demonstrates a man of High character and sense of fair play, that he wouldn't make a show about the Cheat when he very well could have.
Seems it may have been providence FOX had control of footage for the night.