debate reax

I thought Kerry won. He makes Bush look like an intellectual lightweight. But Kerry's bringing up Mary Cheney was just so tacky and gratuitous. Bush was at his best when he talked about compassion, tolerance for gays, etc. -- he seemed genuine and from-the-heart. A lot of his attacks on Kerry just seem so ... smirky. They turn me off. And I wonder if his denying that quote about Osama Bin Laden will come back to haunt him... Apparently CNN has him on tape March 2002 saying he is "truly am not that concerned about" OBL.

I watched the debate with the Daily News debate panel, though, and several of our six panelists thought Bush won. So who knows.

Afterwards I planned to watch the Yanks/Sox game on tape. Got out of the office managing to evade not hearing the score past the sixth inning ... but then spot a taxi with one of those ESPN scoreboards on top posting the score in the 9th inning. Bleah. Bleah bleah bleah. But gotta keep hope alive - Sox can still pull this out.