Catherine and Rick:

Tonight on Fox the ‘experts’ said that Bush’s performance would catch up with him and those internals would fall, probably by the middle of the week.

Exactly how they know this when they did not even think Kerry won big last night I don’t know.

They said if you were there Bush looked better but they thought the split screen worked against him for the folks at home. They got that from a couple of snap polls.

So now we have to wait for days to know. Why?

If people watched it last night and still gave high marks to Bush despite the fact that Kerry had a good night why would they be talked out of that by pundits or anyone else just because the DNC makes some snotty commercials about Bush’s facial expressions? We have been listening to them call Bush Hitler for months why would a pissy look matter?

I thought Bush held his own. I thought he was too repetitive but given the nature of the questions that was hard to avoid if he was going to remain consistent. He is not Kerry, he doesn’t just make stuff up to liven things up.

I thought he looked irritated because Kerry was being obtuse and obnoxious. It is hard not to register emotion when you are being attacked. Kerry just looked like a rich prick, took his notes and said whatever came to mind.

But when Bush talks about the troops or Allawi he seems engaged in a way that Kerry only displays when he is talking about France or unilateral disarmament.

I dunno.