Gloom And Doomer

WE WIN

To me it was pretty clear that John Kerry "won" the debate this evening. Apparently I am not alone in this judgement:

CNN / GALLUP POLL ON WHO WON DEBATE

Kerry: 53
Bush: 37

CBS POLL ON WHO WON DEBATE:

Kerry: 44
Bush: 26
Tie: 30

ABC POLL ON WHO WON DEBATE:

Kerry: 45
Bush 36:
Tie: 17

It will be fun to dissect all of the whopping lies that Bush told tonight. The biggest obvious one was that we have already trained 100,000 Iraqi's. Bush actually repeated this ridiculous assertion even after it was shot down days ago by his own Defense Department! I am not splitting hairs here either, the figures are not even close, for example:

The documents, obtained by Reuters, show that of the nearly 90,000 currently in the police force, only 8,169 have had the full eight-week academy training. And it will be July 2006 before the administration’s new goal of 135,000 fully trained police is met.

What always worries me is how the media spins the debate for people who did not see the whole thing. In an hour and a half debate anyone with the strong desire to smear the other side can grab a sound bite here, a sneer there, taken out of context and show it over and over to the masses who will not watch the whole thing and paint the good guy as a nutcase (think Howard Dean's scream).

The way to head this off is to have a big party and show an unedited tape of the whole debate to as many people as you can. At the end of the party invite all to help fashion a likeness of the president to be taunted and humiliated in effigy. What fun!