Via a reader, Mark Kleiman makes a great point: A reader writes: I believe I heard Bush assure China a veto over our security vis-a-vis North Korea (can’t talk to them if China doesn’t want us to…we need China…etc). I thought he wasn’t going to give foreigners this power? Good point. Of course, Mr. Bush […]

In today’s Washington Post: ALLENTOWN, Pa., Oct. 1 — As Democratic nominee John F. Kerry criticized President Bush in Thursday night’s presidential debate, Bush scowled, squinted, clenched his jaw and appeared disgusted as he hunched over his lectern — images that were beamed into millions of American home. … For the current president, the performance […]

Ken Layne James Wolcott (If you wax nostalgic for “Media Whores Online”, Wolcott’s Attack Poodles book just might bring back some fond memories. If — as you should be — you’re a daily Daily Howler reader, then you’ll likely really enjoy Wolcott’s book. I’m guessing he doesn’t get invited to many DC media parties these […]

Many thanks to all the coverage of the debates by my fellow bloggers. The GOP post-debate debate seems to be trying to say Kerry made some alleged 16 technical errors along the lines of how they attacked Gore four years ago. I have not seen this alleged list but I hear one of the alleged […]

Last night’s debate was a fairly substantive discussion of genuine, significant policy differences (specifically: More of the same vs. Try to improve several bad situations around the world by making some changes). And I had actually been thinking that Bush might start campaigning on those policy differences after the debate. But I guess that was […]

Brad DeLong has the most thorough itemization that I’ve yet seen of statements that Bush made last night that are incorrect or deliberately misleading. There are eighteen of them. It’s worth a read. Kash

Overall, Bush stuck heavily to a very few lines. As AB pointed out, one of his favorites was his rhetorical question: how can you be commander-in-chief if you say this was the “wrong war, wrong time, wrong place?” Bush used this exact phrase seven times times during the debate. And he used the phrase “mixed […]

Postcards from Old Europe – A perfect storm? The movie “The Perfect Storm” tells the story of a commercial fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, and its crew as it tries to battle through an awesome storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1991. The storm was massive because it was actually lethal combination of […]

I’ve never done this, but here goes: – Whoa! Split screen. I thought the rules forbade that. Bush looks pissed as Kerry says he can do a better job of defending America. – About sentence three of his first statement before mentioning 9/11. Next question: Bush “doesn’t think that’s gonna happen [another attack if Sen. […]

I’ll be watching the debate when it starts in half an hour, and if I have any thoughts about it I’ll share them with you. Please feel free to do the same, particularly if you’d like to try your hand at some fact-checking along the way. Kash