Watching them right now. Gore won’t answer the question, instead he gives an opening statement. Bush rebukes with another opening statement. After Luhring said explicitly, “NO OPENING STATEMENTS.” Fuckers.
Gore makes it sound like the government is taking money from poor people and giving it torich people refunds. No, it is a proportional refund. It was their money to begin with.
Bush isn’t even a “real” Republican.
Fuckers.
Gore also seems to have a thing for breathing deeply and loudly whenever Bush starts making a good point.
I loved how Dubya would smile that Campaign Smile at the end of every response. :::snicker::: And how he’d get all pissy and start in on the “what about the last seven years?” stuff every five minutes. How cute. Or like when he’d call Gore’s numbers “phony”. Awwww…
Gore-baby sure had a hard-on for the “wealthiest 1%” didn’t he?
Hell with both of 'em. I don’t like censors. Is it too late for Denis Leary to join the race?
Here’s what I noticed. Bush was very good at the parts of the debate he prepared for. However, if he didn’t see a question coming, or hadn’t prepared well, he turned into a stammering moron. And Gore, not content with Bush looking like a stammering moron, turned into Barry Scheck. “How about THAT, Governor Bush!” Kept interrupting him and basically wouldn’t shut up. So Bush looked like a complete ninny, and Gore looked like a sadistic bully.
Frankly, a sadistic bully probably has more of what it takes to be President, but still–can we possibly get “None of the Above” on the ballot?
NO!!!
It was just an annoying debate. Some parts were good, and Bush did better than most people probably expected (I didn’t notice any "subliminable"s, did you? :D), but sheesh… too much “what are we supposed to be doing?” from both sides.
We need Jesse ‘the Body’ Ventura in the White House!
Oh God no! Jesse “The Mind” is exactly what we DON’T need! Talk about a pop-politician.
–Tim
I was surprised by how well the Gov did. He was calm and poised, most of the time. The Veep was animated and talkative, prehaps too much, but shrug
But DAMN, if either of them talks about some senior citizen out in the audience with their pet poodle and their Winnebago, I hope the moderator pulls out an Uzi and opens fire!
Is it just me, or did Al Gore remind you of Ronald Reagan (in appearence).
As Al gets a longer in the tooth, I think he’s turning into Ronnie - plastic hair-do, floppy jowels, rosy cheeks, that weird display of lower teeth when he takes a breath between words, the little head shake. I expected him to say “There you go again …”
Or is it just me?
Hey, here’s a little nugget I picked up from the NY Times Crossword Puzzle. Anagram of GEORGE BUSH = HE BUGS GORE.
Being a Minnesotan, i would have to agree.
I did vote for him and I think he’s done a fine job here in MN, but for him to be president? That’s asking too much.
I like ChrisCTP’s Denis Leary idea. Let’s write him in!
Hmmm. Denis Leary as Pres. It would make me look forward to the State of the Union address 
What you really need is more than two parties.
We DO have more than two parties. The problem is that the two main parties squeeze them out whenever possible.
Maybe you should say “What you really need is representation by more than two parties.”
Look! It’s the Goodyear Tit!
Which is why we should elect Vince McMahon as president. Think about it… they’re doing Israeli/Palestinian peace talks at Camp David, and when one of the foreign leaders gets out of line, the President whacks him with a chair… end of conflict.
Jack Batty since you had to ask, here are my debate notes from last night. They wander a little but I’m sure we reached the same conclusion. (You’ll see!)
Why not Dennis MILLER for Prez?
Or hell, Mike Nelson from MST3K, with Joel as his VP?
At this point, I’d vote for Crow and Servo!
Because Dennis Miller is just plain irritating and unfunny, in addition to not being a politician.
cOuLD tORgO bE SEcreTaRy oF sTAte?