The superior vice

Wow. What a [vice-presidential] debate last night!

I was listening to Laura Ingraham this morning while I was on the road. She was, of course, talking about the VP debate last night. She's great - loves to have fun with all the soundbites.

She played Edwards' closing statement speech where he talks about coming downstairs to see his dad watching TV and learning how to do math. She played the Waltons theme song behind it.

She played Edward's "non-sequitor moment of the night" where he says that Cheney voted against the meals on wheels for seniors funding when he was in congress. "Watch out Al Qaeda!" she followed up.

At one point, she described the debate as a gun fight - only that Edwards was only equipped with a squirt gun. "Occasionally, Edwards would get a little squirt at Cheney. Then, Cheney would turn the howitzer on him."

Yeah. Hee hee. That's about how it was. It was quite a mismatch. The image
I kept getting was Cheney calmly, methodically disassembling Edwards like
an old Barbie doll. Snap, snap, crack, snap. When Cheney's done he just
sort of folds his hands, as calm as he was at the beginning.

My favorite quote: "Frankly, Senator, your record is not very distinguished." Yeesh! The tone of voice. The serene, withering choice of words. Took [me] back to when I did something wrong when I was a kid and my dad would say, "Son, I'm very disappointed about this."