Last night's debate

I missed all but the last question because I was in an AutoCAD class. I'm just now getting to read some blogger comments, and I'm going to venture that it's obvious now the Idiot in Chief is not wired to anyone with a brain, or they wouldn't have let him finish his sentence when he said he hadn't ever said he no longer cared about Osama bin Laden. To have that particular claim, which he did indeed make, repeated over and over at this time while news sources and the rest of us remind each other that he said it, is really not a good thing for him as he continues to try to claim that he's saving us from terrorists.

As Kevin Drum says...

Bush's statement was obviously a lie, and it lends itself so well to a video comparison that it's probably going to get played over and over and over. It was a big mistake to give news and talk shows such a good excuse to play that old video again.

Biiiig mistake. But are they playing it?

When I turned on the tube, Bush was finishing up a last rebuttal, saying something and punctuating it by slapping his hand on the podium. A couple of articles I've read mention him pounding the podium - one wondered if he might pull off his shoe to pound with, and I realized I had the same image of Nikita Bush. Did he do that throughout the debate?

I'll try to get the transcript read, but I do have a point to make about what little I did see, the last question: What have you learned from your wives and daughters? Neither one of them wanted to admit to much. Buthead shot back in what seemed like a snarky poor hen-pecked man mode: "To listen to 'em." And then paused for a long time - waiting for a laugh? Trying to think of something he might have learned from them? Maybe he was serious. But remember in the first debate, he said he tried to keep a leash on his daughters. I don't expect he listens much to anybody, much less the women in his life. Something tells me his relationship with his mother pretty well set his attitude toward women. His answer was all about how wonderful his wife and daughters are and how much he loves them. Like when Jenna was in the hospital for an emergency appendectomy and he went on vacation, saying if she didn't get to come, she could stay home and clean her room?

I'd like to ask each of you, what is the most important thing you've learned from these strong women?

BUSH: To listen to them.

(LAUGHTER)

To stand up straight and not scowl.

(LAUGHTER)

I love the strong women around me. I can't tell you how much I love my wife and our daughters.

While Kerry at least gave his mother credit for saying that integrity was the most important thing for him to mind while running for president, he did the same thing as Butthead - repeated how wonderful his wife and daughters are and how much he loves them, and what they do for him. Apparently neither of these men thinks they have anything to learn from their women. Gee, why am I not surprised?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.