MInTheGap

For a debate that not many people were going
to watch, many of the people I work with (including those that said
they were not going to watch!) did watch.  My reaction:

Vice President Cheney:
Cheney’s
first problem was that he didn’t really answer the first question about
Bremer and Rumsfeld directly.  I came away from his answer thinking he
dodged it rather than facing it head on.  Most of the time I could
predict what he would say, though sometimes, when I thought he was
going to “hit the ball out of the park” he didn’t.  A prime case was
with the whole homosexual marriage statement John Edwards made about
the consistution not making one state honor a marriage in another.  If
that’s the case, why did they pass the DOMA anyway?

Cheney’s
best moments came in listing John Kerry and John Edward’s records. 
Also he did well during the times where he came off sounding educated
and well aware of what was going on.  His best points centered around
how Kerry changed with the current political breeze.

Senator John Edwards
Edwards had a few stumbling points.  He wanted us to come away with the
idea that all Bush/Cheney does is distort the truth– I think he said
that almost as many times as Bush said “hard work”.  He didn’t answer
many of the confrontations that Cheney had used against him.  The fact
that they only thing that they’re making hay about is the comment that
Cheney said that he hadn’t met Edwards until now, when there were a
couple of times they were together says a lot.

Edward’s best
moments were domestic.  There was a time where I thought they– I mean
he (since all he did was talk John Kerry this, John Kerry that) sounded
like Republicans wanting to shrink the size of government.  That was
pretty amazing.

Overall, a more “fun” debate than the
Presidential one last Thursday, but still missing things.  I don’t know
how a candidate can get information out there in this world, but maybe
both of them should be keeping weblogs that everyone could read and
comment on– then again, what size server could hold all the comments
they would get!