Spin Cycle

One of the best comments I read about last night’s debate was in the Boston Herald:
He reminds me of Fredo in `The Godfather.’ I can hear him saying: `I’m smart. I know things. I’m not stupid.’ ”
And while we’re at it, there’s this from the LA Times:
But words continually fail Bush. Mostly because he doesn’t try very many. With the TV cameras trained on the stripped-down debate stage, his bare-bones communication style sometimes played as monotonous rather than resolute.
Want some comments from the right? Here’s what some right-wing bloggers are saying:
But, candidly, I don’t think it went that well for the President. I think Kerry helped himself tonight. He came across as a credible candidate, and he was usually on the offensive. Powerline.
ONE LINE ON THE DEBATE: Kerry won. Hands down. By a lot. That’s all for now Oxblog.
Kerry did well in terms of his persona; I went in expecting a pompous windbag and he wasn’t one. Bush did less well in persona; fragmented, repetitive…” Winds of Change.
The pro-Kerry post-debate spin seems to be firming up. Will it be enough to give Kerry the Big Mo going into October? Hard to say. But we need to step up our ground game. Voters need to be registered. Rides on Election Day need to be arranged. To borrow a phrase from the President, getting a Democrat elected is hard work. Let’s do this thing.
My sister is taking the LSAT tomorrow, ten years after I took the damn thing. The exam is supposed to measure one’s ability to “think” like a lawyer. If being an attorney was all about solving logic puzzles, I would have turned in my license a long time ago. So send her some good karma, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Man, I’m tired. With all the excitement last night, I stayed up way past my bedtime. I should work on the book tonight, but I’m beginning to question my ability to string sentences together. Perhaps I’ll update the sidebar…