Bush: 7.5
Kerry: 8.75
- What was with the almost exactly identical outfits? Someone really needs to bust out with a wacky tie one of these days. Black suit, white shirt, red tie with white dots, American flag on the left lapel?
- Bush has been coached and has gotten better relative to himself over the past debates.
- Bush likes to check that the lectern isn’t running away, he hit it about 20 times during the debate.
- As Ian put it, Bush is a one-trick pony. Everything comes back to “No Child Left Behind.”
- So it’s ok to bring in flu vaccine from Canada (was anyone else wondering why we aren’t producing our own flu vaccine?) but it’s not ok to import our own prescription drugs from Canada?
- What the hell is an “army of compassion” ? Did this bother anyone else?
- I love the bit when Bush starts to bash some media report by saying “In all due respect, I’m not so sure it’s credible to quote leading news organizations about — oh, nevermind.” Particularly funny when watching at the j-school.
- Kerry looked like he got a haircut, and the remark about “marrying up” was funny — because it was true!
- They both forgot Poland.
Cyrus Farivar is an Iranian-American freelance technology journalist, radio producer and author, currently living in the city of Bonn, Germany.
His book, "The Internet of Elsewhere" – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011. 
