It appears that Salon.com is running a story which contends that George W Bush was wearing a receiver and earphone during last week’s presidential debate. enhanced image from www.electoral-vote.com/images/bulge.jpg looks damning to me. I, for one, can easily believe that this kind of cheating would not work in the “President’s” favor, as he’d have to pay attention to more than one thing at a time. His performance in the debate seems to bear this out. Pathetic.
Oops. Thanks. Fuck. 
No problem; this is a place to rant, that’s a place to debate.
Daniel
And I guess my rant (possibly premature, but what the hey) is:
‘You stupid, juvenile, incompetent fart-huffers! I’ve seen better attempts at / results from cheating out of ADD, PlayStation addled, betel nut chewing 11-year-olds! Actually, the fact (?) that you went to all that effort to cheat and still couldn’t get the Chimp in Chief to come off as minimally competent fills me with The Glee That Will Last Till 9:00 When I Can Watch You Blather Hopelessly Again. Putzes!’
Good rant. I score it an 8.5 out of 10. I am also waiting for tonight’s debate, with sadistic glee.
That link seems to be broken irae, at least at the moment anyway.
But yes, even if Dubya was cheating, it’s not like it helped him. Did it? Or would he have just been standing there drooling gently on the podium if Cheney/Rove hadn’t been spoonfeeding him lines?
Looks like the image has been moved to www.electoral-vote2.com/images/bulge.jpg
I really don’t think that bulge reveals an attempt to cheat; not even Bush would be that stupid. I think.
But if it was…what irae said.
I refuse to look for a bulge in Bush’s pants!
Mini Karl?!
An interesting quote from the Salon article:
If it’s true, how weird is that to have someone else reading the President lines during a frickin’ debate? I have this great mental image of Cheney hiding behind a curtain with a microphone. “Good, now call him a flip-flopper again. Very good.”
Yep–that quote, if true, makes the whole situation that much stranger. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
Daniel
So then what the Kerry people need to do is go out and get themselves a state of the art frequency scanner, and a wickedly powerful burst transmitter. The kind of equipment that if used anywhere near the sea shore would cause human sterility and brain embolisms in whales. Set the frequency scanner to run across it’s entire bandwidth capability and burst transmit a 1000 decibel recording of dolphin calls.
That will put an end to that little trick real quick…
If we’re gonna go wishful thinking, they need instead to get the scanner, the burst transmitter, and a guy who can impersonate Karl Rove. Talk about your good times!
Daniel
Nonononono. You feed him “The Hokey Pokey” and laugh your ass off as he starts waving body parts around.
Moderator: “You have 30 seconds…”
GWB “See, I think the important thing about the economy is that I’m romantically attracted to chickens.”
Moderator: “Excuse me, Mr. President?”
GWB (clutchting ear): “No, no, what I meant to say is don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got, I’m still Jenny from the block.”
Moderator: “Ahh…”
GWB: “That’s why we as a people need to do the Funky Broadway, and not shoot the sherrif without shooting also the deputy. Also, I pardon Charles Manson.”
You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out…
Hey! He’s flip-floppin!
I now have peanut M&M pieces all over my desk. Claricaun, I think I love you.
Robin
When I read the title of this thread, I thought y’all were talking about this