The superior vice
Posted: 6 October 2004 at 22:41:22
I sent this message to a couple of my friends this morning and thought it might be enjoyed by the couple of people who might read the Fozzolog.
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."
Chadd wrote back:
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."