For the first time since the Democratic primaries, I’m starting to believe that John Kerry was the right man for the job.
Almost every news outlet, including Fox, judged him the winner in last night’s Presidential debate. The only waffler I’ve found so far is Sumner Redstone’s (“the re-election of President Bush would be best for Viacom’s interests”) CBS.
And good for the networks for using split screens during the broadcast, thus ignoring the rules of the discredited Commission on Presidential Debates.
Kerry won on both substance AND style, reducing Bush to petulant whining and grimacing about what “hard work” his job is.
The impression left is that this spoiled son of aristocrats had no notion, and probably still doesn’t, of the true meaning of the word “work”.
Further, Kerry countered every reference to the infamous “flip-flop” label with hard facts and solid arguments, including his “which is worse” comparison, which should become this campaign’s catch phrase.
And Mount St. Helens cooperated by not pre-empting the post-debate coverage with a newsworthy display – at least, not yet.