Veep Debate Thread

I'm just now catching up on blogging. Thanks to Kelly for keeping things lively and interesting here. Even this is hardly an organized post. I'm just kind of puking up some thoughts here, but here it goes.

Veep debate was tough. After all, John Edwards was debating the president.

John Edwards was able to respond to the attendance record with Cheney's voting record. That was a lovely highlight for me.

But my favorite... Here's John Edwards. The question is about gay marriage:

Now, as to this question, let me say first that I think the vice president and his wife love their daughter. I think they love her very much. And you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her. It's a wonderful thing. And there are millions of parents like that who love their children, who want their children to be happy.

Edwards may sound sympathetic there—and he probably truly is—but as soon as he said "love their daughter," I turned to the pal I was watching the debate with and said, "Holy shit, he's going there." John Edwards practiced that speech, I believe, in order to remind ever single blind, intolerant conservative out there, "DICK CHENEY HAS A GAY DAUGHTER!! GAY, I TELLS YA!! A LEZ-BEAN!" It's the sort of game the Republicans play on Democrats, and I say fight fire with fire.

Oh, and Atrios caught Cheney in an interesting lie. Here's the lie:

The first time I ever met [John Edwards] was when you walked on the stage tonight.

Here's the proof he lied:



Cheney's a good debater. He's an evil genius. Edwards was good, too, but hung himself when he said Kerry's name twice when the moderator asked them not to and said "I broke the rules" twice. Yeah, that'll never come back to haunt him.

Kerry has two more chances to make Bush look like a weasely bitch. I bet he'll do it, too.

SO TALK ALREADY. What did you think? I know it's late in the day and most of you read this when you're procrastinating at work, but post a comment or two.