"Maybe that's why Kerry was so smooth. BTW waht's on Bush's podium? I can't tell."
Hmm...suspicious indeed! I thought it looked like "columns" on the paper. But it could be grayish shadows from the edge-sides of his hands.
Whether Bush cheated too...
There does seem to be something that doesn't look like handwriting on Bush's paper. But the columns are too narrow. I think it's shadows from the mike and his hand. Also, look at the bar-like pattern on the left edge of the paper. It seems to stretch off the paper onto the yellow wood, wood that almost looks as white as the paper due to the studio lights and angles.
I think it's funny shadows. And Bush is not "smooth" like Kerry to pull off something like that!