Damn Faint Praise, Indeed

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Fox News host Sean Hannity said of Bush, "I've never seen him more passionate, more on message, more articulate."

Mr. Hannity, for those not afflicted with an excess of knowledge about the political leanings of the various talking heads that puport to be political journalists, makes Rush Limbaugh look like a weak-kneed moderate.

You can look at his comment above as either a frank admission that even the GOP's most rabid lackeys know W is a drooling moron, whose long, blinking pauses, vaguely constipated reactions to Kerry's criticism, and frequent nonsensical repititions of party rhetoric are as good as he gets when he doesn't have scriptwriters doing his thinking (or Cheney's hand up his ass), or you can wonder exactly how deluded the neocon mouthpieces in the media have gotten themselves, and are not just unwilling, but unable, to come to terms with the fact that their man in the Oval Office just got his ass handed to him with a bow on top, and was lucky to walk out of the debate not wearing it for a hat.

I've been more articulate after nine beers and four hours of Halo.

Comments

[rachellll.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced Hannity is from another planet. I first heard him when I visited by crazy-right-wing uncle. He played Hannity's radio talk show in the car. Everything out of his mouth was so unbelievably untrue, it didn't even RESEMBLE truth! His audience was a bunch of idiots, though (none of them could identify who Dick Cheney was when quizzed). It's been ages, but I still remember him stating that the average American annual income is $100,000. Now wouldn't that be nice.

[jruske.livejournal.com]

I still remember him stating that the average American annual income is $100,000. Now wouldn't that be nice

Good god! Could you imagine how much taxes we'd all have to pay so the gov't could knock us back down to what we really make???

[so-il-singer.livejournal.com]

While I don't doubt that watching Kerry and Bush in action is probably a third dimension to the debate, I've seen them both speak enough times now that I wasn't expecting anything radically different to pop up in their presentation and mannerisms.

To paraphrase a CNN story earlier today, a Bush campaign spokesperson said Kerry "came to play. We didn't expect that."

I think unless you saw the John Kerry that appeared last night, you have no idea whence you speak about the debate. Bush looked stunned and dazed, pausing for so long on many of his answers that it seemed he'd forgotten how to speak English (not that he speaks it all that well now).

Kerry did a commendable job. He had several issues he could have gone in for the kill on; but I also believe strongly that Bush, who knows he can't win a debate with a tree if the tree has an equal footing in questions, pared down many possible Kerry approaches with all of his rules demands. (And don't fool yourself into thinking that Kerry was the one who initiated all those silly debate rules... it was the Bush campaign, plain and simple, because they KNEW their candidate would lose in a straight-up debate to Kerry, and overwhelmingly.)

[jruske.livejournal.com]

I think unless you saw the John Kerry that appeared last night, you have no idea whence you speak about the debate. Bush looked stunned and dazed, pausing for so long on many of his answers that it seemed he'd forgotten how to speak English (not that he speaks it all that well now).

Bush always looks stunned and dazed and can barely read his cue cards. Ummm... so no shock.

John Kerry has a good television persona and nice hair. So far that makes him about as good as Clinton just minus natural charisma.

And if Clinton had been bumped off in his first term he'd have been a much more loved president in my book.