When did the Bush-Cheney team decide that their debate strategy would be repeat talking points?
Bush and Cheney are broken records.
Cheney could hit Edwards’s points.
He could have killed Edwards on the issue of hunting Bin Laden in Afghanistan. (What should we have done, invaded Pakistan at a time when the Islamist Pakistani intelligence services was one bullet from a coup that would give Islamists a nuclear weapons?! Should we have followed the failed strategy the Soviet tried for 8 years? Instead we worked with elements on the ground and took control of the country!)
On Haliburton, Cheney could have responded
1. Haliburton got the same kind of contracts in the same way in the Clinton administration
2. Haliburton was the only American company able to provide certain services. Should the Us have outsourced to French and Russian companies that had worked with Saddam Hussein in misusing the oil for food program?!
In North Korea, should we have threatened an invasion we could not accomplish in 2001, or should we have followed our current strategy of working with North Koreas neighbors in isolating North Korea.
Your criticisms are fine, but a bit overdone -- in many of those cases, Cheney was in the "30-second answer" mode. He can't hit 'em all, but he's slamming the main points -- hard.
Cheney is doing a fantastic job. I love that he's not addressing every single whiney complaint by Edwards and attacking him on substance and character (or lack thereof).
ROCK ON, CHENEY!
Go Away, Cheney is destroying Breck girl and you come up with your negative nelly nonsense, pffft.