Wednesday, October 06, 2004
VP Debate: You Won? Yeah, Well, We Won, Too!
A fairly concise wrap-up in Business Week about the VP Debate:0 comments
The Veep Debate: We Won
But one spin point that WAS brought up afterwards that I tend to agree with, is the fact that a tie goes as a win for John Edwards.
Since he was going, as the novice, against a long, storied political resume, there was an assumption he'd be pummelled.
Didn't happen. As BW points out:
Going into the debate, Democrats feared that Edwards would suffer from a stature gap, looking young and callow, an immature pretty boy next to the stolid political veteran. No worry there. Edwards, like [John] Kerry five days earlier, looked ready to step into the White House Situation Room. Oddly, the only stature gap that popped up on the shores of Lake Erie was the gap between [Dick] Cheney's steady performance and the occasionally halting job turned in by President Bush at the University of Miami on Sept. 30.
The story evens points to one of my favorite moments from last night, when Edwards came up with the "Flickering Light" line during his closing argument.
Tieing that back to Daddy Bush, the U.S. has ended up over the last four years with "A Thousand Points of Flickering Light."
Nice.
posted by Gotham 10:50 AM
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