Ooooh Mommy, am I a real blogger now?

I’m lying on the couch typing wirelessly as I watch the debates. Does that make me part of the big leagues?

Some thoughts:

• Kerry is noticably taller. He does have a queer Raggedy Andy cherry-red cheek thing going on. From an Oompa-Loompa tan to Raggedy Andy in a couple of days? Very strange.
• Kerry is nervous as hell. I guess all the punditry claiming this was his make it or break it chance got to him.
• The President said ‘vociferously’ without bollocksing it up. Does that mean people will shut up about his diction?
• Still flogging Vietnam JFK? I would have thought the repercussions of that tack would have warned you away by now.
• I dig the website plug. Way cool.
• The President is very good at staying on message. I wonder if that doesn’t hurt him somewhat; he never says anything different. Just the same phrases over and over again.
• Kerry can’t even say a damned cliche correctly. It’s “If you break it, you bought it” you goddamned Frankenstein looking sumbitch. Christ, do you think if I keep going to Boston as often as I do I’ll start looking or thinking like JFK? If I ask one of you to shoot me, will you indulge me?

Well, that was mind-numbingly boring. The best that can be said is that both candidates have perfected the art of staying on message. Damn fine job of not saying anything interesting or unique in any way.

But the big question is, who won? I’d say at best it was a draw, which the conventional wisdom should convert into a defeat for Kerry. Maybe he’ll calm down in the future. Cripes, if that’s all they’ve got to say on foreign policy – the issue this election will be decided on – how yawn inducing will the domestic policy debate be?