Posted on 10/05/2004 8:55:03 PM PDT by RWR8189
ABC News' Poll Shows 43 Percent Think Vice President Cheney Won Debate, Only 35 Percent Think Edwards Won. (ABC's "Special Coverage," 10/5/04 )
NBC's Tom Brokaw: "Dick Cheney Reminded Me Of George Foreman, Kind Of A Slow Gait, But A Powerful Right-Hand When He Unleashed It In A Number Of Areas As He Went After The Kerry-Edwards Ticket." (NBC's "Special Coverage," 10/5/04 )
MSNBC's Ron Reagan: "This Time, I Think The Chattering Classes, And I Include All Of Us Among Them, Will Come Out On The Side Of There Was A Stature Gap There, And It Was To Cheney's Advantage." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/5/04 )
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Calls The Debate Between Vice President Cheney The "Howitzer" And Senator John Edwards The "Water Pistol." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/05/04 )
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell: "I Think Dick Cheney Did Awfully Well, At, First Of All, Putting John Edwards In His Place. Saying That I Have Been Presiding Over The Senate, And I Didn't Meet You Until Tonight. Talking About His Not Having Been On The Job Was Pretty Devastating." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/5/04 )
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: "I Tell You, Tonight, No Doubt About It, Edwards Got Obliterated By Dick Cheney. This Is The Most Surprising Part. This Debate Actually Turned In Cheney's Direction When They Started Talking About Domestic Issues. I Thought Cheney Handled The Foreign Policy Issues Very Well." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/5/04 )
I don't understand what that means. And I used to live in newsrooms, NOTHING goes undiscussed.
The point was Cheney didn't meet him ON THE JOB.
Am I imagining things, or did Edwards really say that?
I wonder if Edwards "daddy learned math on TV" story was prepared in advance or whether he was winging it last minute. After Cheney talked about his upbringing, Edwards may have decided during the debate he needed to show he had "humble beginnings" too. Seemeed kind of weird to me. Of course when Edwards went off on how afganastan was leading producer of some kind of drug was off the wall too.
I guarantee you Edwards' daddy story was not winging it. It was the total opposite of winging it. Maybe it went over well with the focus group, but he never looked more ridiculous than he did telling that stupid-ass story about his 'daddeee'.
Now on Fox they are saying Cheney misspoke, he had met Edwards and his wife a prayer breakfast months earlier!!!! To me that makes it even worse. Can you imagine Edwards saying that Cheney misspoke and said "I met you at a prayer breakfast" after Cheney basically told him he never saw him in the Tuesday Senate Chamber?
The point was he never did his Senate job!
His dad was using his own brainpower to try to better himself. That's the opposite of Edwards's empty promises to use government largesse to improve the lot of the masses.
Disagree. Edwards was squriming quite a bit when Cheney attacked not only Edwards but John Kerry himself, and he couldn't recover. Towards the end of the debate, Edwards couldn't even think straight forgetting twice in one question not to mention Kerry's name and the moderator called him on it each time. Cheney won hands down.
It's still a memorable moment because the point is clear: John Edwards wasn't in the Senate and missed several key votes.
Dick "the Howitzer" Cheney defeats Breck Girl with a single blast!
I read today that Bush's strategy team advised him to not come across as attacking Kerry. They thought Kerry would blow it for himself. So now, I'm more confident that Bush will come out swinging in the next debate.
The point I was trying to make is that John Edwards is not memorable, therefore meeting him does not make for a memorable moment. It was a joke. :)
I thought the same thing. On the one hand, here is John Edwards, son of a man who didn't go to college, who made it far enough along in life to be the Democrat nominee for the Vice Presidency. That alone speaks volumes about the great opportunities here in America. And yet, Edwards warns us that "the bright light of America is flickering" or some nonsense to that effect. I think it was Brit Hume who once characterized Edwards as "a sunny guy with a gloomy message." It's bizarre, how Edwards smiles and uses such cheerful body language, while warning us that the sky is falling.
classic.
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