Other Views
#1: From Alex Jones: This is obviously totally partisan and Kerry’s the same posion as Bush, but it shows the start of Kerry’s possible comeback in line with his closer bloodline relations to European royalty.
#2: From “Free Republic”: noticed something last night.
G.W. Bush’s necktie was askew. It looked unprofessional. I wondered HOW in the heck that could have happened.
Then during the replay, I saw how it happened. When Kerry greeted Bush, Kerry held on to Bush’s hand as Bush was walking away. Bush was forced to awkwardly stretch his torso, dislodging the correct placement of the tie.
I initially thought it was all happenstance. But on further review, I saw that Kerry made a point of adjusting his tie after the handshake, just in case the manuever dislodged his too.
Maybe it was an accident, maybe not. I think not. If anyone has contacts to Bush, please advise them of this possible purposeful action, or at the very least, MAKE SURE BUSH’S TIE IS STRAIGHT. I was focused on the tie, it looked so sloppy.
#3: Some Guy With A Website: President Bush’s fantasy world has crumbled right before the American public. Last election he came across as one of the average people. This time he showed himself to be one of the “special” children who ride the little yellow bus.
And President Bush had a Freudian moment from hell, when he was trying to counter Kerry’s charge that Bush confused Saddam with Osama and incorrectly attacked Iraq for 9/11 instead of just going after Osama.
Bush replied, “Of course we’re after Saddam Hussein — I mean bin Laden.” […]
What happened last night was exactly what we said would happen way back in May in articles like these (see: Look, We Told You Months Ago Kerry Would Win By A Landslide and John Kerry, Leader Or Loser?) The Bush people had been making the horrible mistake of running against John Kerry as if he were Al Gore or Mike Dukakis, whiny sort of weak liberal types who let themselves be bullied. We warned that Kerry wasn’t one to let himself get bullied, and that he had strength, charisma, and charm that the press was underestimating. No, he was not the smooth-talking southern charmer like Bush or Clinton, but he was the quiet, cool Northeastern-type charmer.
Last night, the Bushies went up there seemingly without a plan except to have Bush repeatedly – and we mean repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly, until he began to sound like Rain Man …