The Rys4K Offical Reaction to the First Presidental Presentation of the 2004 Defection...

Wordplay and puns are for the elderly...

It's been about 12 hours since I disconnected. Finally, someone where close to 3 am, I pulled the plug on the political spin factory known as "coverage" after the initial debate. It was Lou Dobbs who originally stripped the title of "debate" from the setup we saw last evening. As impartial as men in his position attempt to appear, his tones waivered somewhere between distain and disgust as he described the rules agreed to by both parties. The supposively non-partisan, non-profit Commision on Presidential Debates, seemed to do it's best to stack all the rules in Bush's favor. Whats that? You'd like to see some evidence to support that claim? Check out their homepage, the only image that appears on it from the debate, features one of the very very few moments that Kerry was found frowning off camera. Perhaps they didn't have the time to extend the effort to find a "non-partisan" image of both candidates?

Either way, last evening I was busy working, trying to stay afloat in this staggering Bush economy, but I was able to have the debates on in the backround in an attempt at ambient entertainment. I really wasn't able to give it the full attention it deserved, but I did get to watch the highlight and split screen replay later in the evening. There were a few moments of note through out the debate, you could almost sense when something big were about to occur. For example, when Kerry, much to the dismay of those at FoxNews, took a moment to remind both the under/mis-informed American Population, and President Bush himself that Iraq did not attack us, nor did we find any direct links between Iraq and Al Queada.

While both candidates took a few pot shots and all, I couldn't call a winner, because i'd not paid close enough attention. Though, the coverage immediately afterward did clue us in mighty quickly.

I knew Kerry won when....

Directly after the debates, every Republican talked about what a good debate it was, and how it was exactly what American's deserved to see.

They didn't declare themselves the winner, because they knew they had lost, and couldn't hide it any other way.

From the replays, I think even Bush knew he lost while it was going on. At times he seemed choked up or lost for words, angered and frustrated, and over all inept. Sometimes it takes a little more than a few well rehearsed catch phrases and quotes, strewn between misrepresentations of the truth and slander to win a debate.

Not that this was a debate. This was a puppet show. How can you call it a debate when the candidates can't address each other directly?

How much better would it have been if Kerry could turn to him and say 'What the fuck were you thinking?'

That would've held my attention, even beyond transfering a pond.

-Rys4K

p.s.- I intend to go rally outside CWRU next Tuesday, maybe tell people that I slept with Chenney's daughter before she went lez. Then twice afterwards, when we went three way with her new "friend"...