The Unbiased, Completely True Debate Result, Revisited

I've thought a little more and come up with three things rather than two that were true of the Friday night debate:

- George W. played fast and cheap with the rules. He did. For all of the pages and pages of rules that his campaign insisted on for the debate, he seemed to feel remarkably free to re-write them on the fly. Which has sort of been my problem with him all along.

- For all of his purported ideas, John Kerry seemed remarkably free of them during the debate. When we don't hear them expressed, it leaves us to decide based on intangible 'feelings' about him, rather than facts. Which forces us to decide based on our like or dislike of him as a person. Which is a terrible way to pick a person to run the world.

- And, yes, in my opinion, if we're thinking purely in terms of 'winning' and 'losing', George W., completely and without question, walked all over John Kerry on Friday night.