Update

[avram]

Whuf. There’s a whole bunch of stuff I want to write now, but I’m too tired. My father had bypass surgery today, and I was up at 4:30 AM to accompany my parents to the hospital. The surgery went well, and he’s doing about as well as you’d expect some to be doing who’s had that kind of surgery.

I made a point of seeing tonight’s debate, ’cause I learned four years ago that you can’t trust the post-debate media spin. The first ten or fifteen minutes were just painful — I felt like I hated both candidates. They both stayed so relentlessly on-message that I wanted Jim Lehrer to start demanding that they actually answer the questions he’d asked. Kerry got better as the night went on, and I think he articulated the North Korean Nukes story pretty well. Bush seemed to get more and more defensive, and seemed positively desperate every time he mentioned talking with other world leaders — Really, I talk to these guys, honest!

I can’t believe Bush is actually campaigning on the claim that he’s a clear and coherent speaker. “Mexed missages”.

Comments

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

the moment when I felt like Kerry first really put Bush on the defensive was when Bush said something about having to invade Iraq because we had been attacked, Kerry pointed out that Saddam Hussein didn't attack us, and Bush snapped "I know he didn't attack us!" He sounded like he realized he'd made a mistake.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your dad, I hope he gets better.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

My sympathies and good wishes to your father.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I hope your father comes out of this OK.

Bush never responded to Kerry's charge that W. mishandled the Osama bin Laden manhunt. I agree with Matthew Yglesias that Kerry should keep pounding away at that, even more than North Korea, because nobody has come up with a decent justification for that debacle.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Luck to you and your dad.