Text 3172, 102 rader
Skriven 2004-10-09 14:41:48 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
   Kommentar till text 3169 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: 2005 FEST
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Hey, FRANK.

 EC>>>> ST>>> I note that you and your buddies haven't been raving about the
 EC>>>> ST>>> recent debate.  Hardly a peep.

 EC>>>> FS>> Peep:  The debate was expected, by the Kerry camp, to knock
 EC>>>> FS>> George W. Bush out of the race.  It failed since the debate was
 EC>>>> FS>> a tie.

 EC>>>> JH> They can claim victory all day long and all through the night if
 EC>>>> JH> they want to, but it hasn't changed a damn thing in the polls.
 EC>>>> JH> Bush is still ahead by an average of 5 points as of this
 EC>>>> JH> evening's news.

 EC>>>> My attitude is "who cares what John Kerry takes as his position at
 EC>>>> the  debate, it will be the opposite tomorrow."

 JB>>> Or, for those paying close attention,  before the debate is even
 JB>>> over.

 EC>>> Exactly.  It's why I didn't even watch the debate.

 FS>> No need for you to watch any of the debates, Ed.  I'll keep you
 FS>> informed:

 FS>> 1st Debate:  Tie ... Kerry is known as a skilled debater ...
 FS>> however, since he clearly did not *beat* George W. Bush,
 FS>> in effect he *lost* ... (proper interpretation of political
 FS>> debates is not for the amateur) ...

 FS>> Veep Debate:  Cheney won easily ... don't applaud as I feel a bit
 FS>> sorry for Edwards.  He seemed like the political puppy he is,
 FS>> yapping at Cheney's heels but never landing a tooth ...

 FS>> Saturday, Ed, I'll summarize Friday's up-coming debate.  I could
 FS>> predict the outcome but that would be pointless ... patience ...

 EC>> Okay.  My wife is visiting Washington, DC for 10 days and we talk two
 EC>> or  three times a day.  Just today I told her that I was relying on
 EC>> your report  in order to gain the best understanding possible.  I'll
 EC>> be waiting for your  take.

 FS> Very briefly here's how it went Friday night:

 FS> How shall I put this so there can be no mistake?   OK ... here it
 FS> is ... George W. Bush, a.k.a. Dubya cleaned Kerry's clock.  Dubya
 FS> ate his lunch.  Bush turned Kerry every way but loose ... that
 FS> should explain it in the argot of the streets.

 FS> As for you, Ed, Dubya beat Kerry handily.  At no time was the
 FS> debate ever close, neglecting the fine handshake Kerry gave
 FS> Bush at the beginning of the debate.  Kerry did an excellent
 FS> job at that task.  Kerry's handshake was neither too firm nor
 FS> too limp.  From that point on, however, Kerry seemed to sink
 FS> deeper and deeper into mental quicksand.

 FS> During the debate itself Kerry seemed to be thinking of something
 FS> else -- perhaps longing to return to his home on the Planet Mars
 FS> (Or is it Jupiter?).  In any event, as Kerry stumbled for words
 FS> the camera showed George W. Bush, with a confident smile while he
 FS> watched Kerry's futile attempts to paint him (Dubya) as anything
 FS> but heroic.  GWB, of course, answered all questions with both
 FS> grace as well as a command of the English language which would
 FS> have made Winston Churchill green with envy (to coin a cliche).

 FS> The camera panned the faces of his questioners as Dubya spoke.
 FS> One could almost *sense* the admiration on the face of each
 FS> supplicant.

 FS> This was quite a contrast to the puzzlement on the faces of
 FS> Kerry's questioners as they struggled to understand what, if
 FS> anything, was his point.  One questioner -- caught only for a
 FS> microsecond by the camera -- actually resumed reading his
 FS> newspaper as Kerry tried first to *understand* the question
 FS> then to answer it.

 FS> The *real* puzzle is this:  How did the audience manage to hold
 FS> back its applause after each of Dubya's well-thought-out
 FS> responses?  They showed *amazing* self-control.  Also why didn't
 FS> Kerry take his final summary to acknowledge defeat and drop out
 FS> of the presidential race at that time?  Those are real conundrums
 FS> (or is that "conundra"?)

 FS> So that's it, Ed.  I suppose by now you've seen the equivalent of
 FS> what I've written on the front page of the New York Times.  I
 FS> don't expect there to *be* a *third* debate so this should end
 FS> it.

 FS> BRIEF SUMMARY:  George W. Bush won the debate.  John Kerry lost
 FS> the debate.

Thank you so much.  I shall hang my hat on your report then.  It is a 
pleasure to read your words knowing that you are, unlike the mainstream 
media, honest and truthful and unbiased and so faithful that you make Lassie 
look like a treasonous cur.

I should add that it saves me a lot of time to simply get your consise 
report and I spent my time watching a movie.


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 * Origin: Bush, "Let's roll."  Kerry, "Let's rollover." (1:379/1.6)