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As Salon's War Room discussed earlier today, the Bush campaign insisted on those ridiculous recumbent traffic lights on each candidate's lectern, hoping that the emphasis on the time limits would hurt the proverbially long-winded John Kerry.
So it only serves them right that, while Kerry stuck to the rules and confined his responses to the allotted time, those dumb lights only ended up emphasizing the multiple occasions on which George Bush ran out of things to say before his lights had flashed.
What was supposed to highlight one candidate's verbosity ended up emphasizing the other's vacuity.
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In the first Gore/Bush debate in 2000, as we know, viewers who actually watched the debate thought Gore won -- but by the time the spinners were finished, and the media coverage was done obsessing over Gore's sighing reactions to his opponent, the consensus was that Bush had prevailed.
I dunno, I just finished watching George Bush sigh at least a half dozen times -- as well as grimace, pout and otherwise express his exasperation at John Kerry's inexplicable failure to pontificate or gasbag beyond the 2-minute limit Bush's handlers had insisted upon.
Will Bush get called on it? Or is sighing only culpable when it's done by Democrats?
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