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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, October 08, 2004

Bush's mystery bulge

Salon (remember them?) are reporting that Mr. Bush may have been wearing a wire during the first debate last week. This is backed up by strange, even for him, stops and starts during some of his responses:
On several occasions, the president simply stopped speaking for an uncomfortably long time and stared ahead with an odd expression on his face. Was he listening to someone helping him with his response to a question? Even weirder was the president's strange outburst. In a peeved rejoinder to Kerry, he said, "As the politics change, his positions change. And that's not how a commander in chief acts. I, I, uh -- Let me finish -- The intelligence I looked at was the same intelligence my opponent looked at." It must be said that Bush pointed toward Lehrer as he declared "Let me finish." The green warning light was lit, signaling he had 30 seconds to, well, finish.
It's also worth noting that the agreed-upon debate conditions stated that no cameras were to be placed behind the candidates--a condition that Fox News (of all people!), as the pool video provider, ignored.
I'll be listening to the debate tonight in the car, so I won't be able to spot any mystery bulges. But you can bet several million people will be looking.
|| Andrew, 10:22 AM || ||

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