The third and final Presidential debate takes place in the University of Arizona in Tempe, AZ… Will Bush make a comeback or will John Kerry get the knockout blow in the crutial weeks before the election. Again, running thoughts ain’t gonna happen, you can surely find those in a million different places, just little bite sized thoughts…
President Bush looks like he’s foaming at the mouth, he had what looked like a bit of white foam on the side of his mouth, it was hard not to notice. Maybe it was just the light… He has a really forced laugh and, as Phil says, it’s remarkable he can remember all these statistics considering he’s, well, not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, adding fuel to the earpiece conspiracy theories. Even when he tries to be funny it comes across as contrived… He just can’t buy a bucket, to use some old NBA Jam terminology.
John Kerry came out fighting, keeping the debate on track while Bush tried to derail it whenever possible… He also smacked him down in the gay marriage stakes by name dropping Dick Cheany’s daughter. Now, he comes across more and more confident during each debate, he’s rallying more and more people to his campaign and, again with the NBA Jam lingo, he’s on fire (is it the shoes??)…
Well, I’m viewing it as a 3-0 unanimous victory for John Kerry, and he nailed him in this one, not as badly as the first debate but much more convincingly than the second. Bush came into the debate series with a consistant lead in every poll going, now he’s on decidedly shakey ground. It should be an interesting 3 weeks leading up to election day and to what levels of mud slinging the respective campaigns are willing to go…