Other media outlets have been telling you this election would be close
and that the debates might be even as well.

We hate to say it (not that much) but we told them so.

Bush got shellacked so badly it was astounding. He was like a wounded
animal desperate for a place to hide but not able to find one.

For the past week the right-wing had been joking about how Kerry was a
sweater, would sweat during the debates. But it was Bush who the camera
saw wiping sweat from his brow. And drinking heavily from his water
glass repeatedly. And fumbling through his papers, desperate to find
something else to say besides the one or two talking point phrases he
could manage to remember.

There was no escaping or hiding the fact that Bush was not even remotely
deserving of being on that stage. He was rambling, incoherent. His
answers wandered not only off topic but out of comprehensibility. In
short, all of the things the President’s handlers have been adeptly
hiding from the public – that the emperor truly is butt naked – got
stuck right out there in the bright light.

And now America knows.

Even the Gallup poll, which took its usual heavily Republican biased
sample, said Kerry blew Bush away.

These were supposed to, according to the non-Moderate Independent media,
be Bush’s strong points: foreign policy and style. He got clobbered on both.