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Now, this debate last night, to me, was not even close. This debate last night was John Edwards finally finding a client he cannot defend, John Kerry. I\u2019ve heard some of the praise for Edwards in the spin last night, during the day today: he spoke so well, he looked so young, he had so much energy, he\u2019s natural and fluid. May I give you my take on this? As I wrote it at the time. He is not speaking well. I wrote, “He did not speak well.” He got flustered, he ran out of material in this debate in about 25 minutes and then started repeating what he said. He was repeating campaign talking points. He was making up facts as he went along. He was sticking to documentary evidence that is provably false. The cost of the war, the stuff on Halliburton. Halliburton was no more than a lifeline for John Edwards. When he got into trouble, it was Halliburton time. That\u2019s all Halliburton was. He didn\u2019t score a point on Halliburton except maybe with the mainstream press and some of the left-wing kooks, but it doesn\u2019t mean anything.<\/line> <\/line>In the last half hour of this debate, I thought John Edwards was so disorganized and so unorganized and so unprepared, he didn\u2019t quite know how to answer Gwen Ifill\u2019s questions and so he took the occasion of each question to go back and repeat something that he had said in a previous answer, previous question or some criticism of Cheney. He was saying numerous times, “before I answer that I want to go back and say one more thing about this, the vice president said–” and blah, blah. I\u2019m sitting watching this, and he went on almost 75% of the allotted time on going back. When you go back to say something, folks, I\u2019m telling you, you do it because you don\u2019t think you did it right the first time. When you have to go restate something, it\u2019s either because you\u2019ve got nothing new to say or because you think you didn\u2019t say it as well as you could have the first time and you want to make sure everybody got what you were talking about. But when it came to bringing up John Kerry\u2019s 20-year record and Edwards\u2019 4-year record — because they\u2019ve been campaigning for two years — there was no defense, there was literally no defense. The stark reality was that there is no defense. These people cannot defend their voting record. <\/line>The zinger about Howard Dean that Cheney offered, saying that he was for the war then against the war, but when Howard Dean was running away with the primaries, Kerry had to out-Dean Dean so he changed his mind. And the point being he\u2019s not consistent and you don\u2019t know what he\u2019s going to say or do given the moment because you can\u2019t predict the moments. As Victor Davis Hanson has said, Kerry has a battlefield mentality that is such if you\u2019re losing a battle it\u2019s time to get out of the war. He doesn\u2019t have stick-to-it-iveness, he doesn\u2019t have the ability to have principles, some core beliefs, some objectives and goals and stick to them and make them happy regardless of the obstacles. Every obstacle John Kerry runs into he uses as an excuse to change his mind. He wants to be able to have said everything about every issue, so that everybody can say “I agree with John Kerry.” That\u2019s fine if these are happy, lackadaisical, go-lucky times, but they are not. These are times where people want to know what their future is going to be when it comes to the protection of the country and the war on terror, and John Edwards offered no such protection. John Edwards offered no such confidence. John Edwards can\u2019t. John Edwards doesn\u2019t have the experience to speak for this administration in waiting. John Edwards cannot promise what this administration is going to do; he\u2019s been nothing but a senator. <\/line><\/p>\n

When you stack up against who he was talking to, Dick Cheney, who has spent his life in public service and has been involved in the defense of this country, the comparison, the juxtaposition of the two was striking. No gravitas, is one way to describe it. But no credibility is another. John Edwards simply doesn\u2019t bring credibility when discussing what he\u2019s going to do on the war on terror, nor does he bring credibility to the discussion when he says what John Kerry is going to do on the war on terror, and the reason he doesn\u2019t bring credibility is twofold. It\u2019s twofold because Edwards has none himself, and B, he has not been around long enough to give anybody any confidence he knows what he\u2019s talking about. They can cite “we have a plan” all day long, they can cite we\u2019re going to do this all day long, they can say we\u2019re going to catch the terrorists before they catch us. Well, the stark reality is John Kerry wants us to get out of where the terrorists are, and make no mistake about this, folks, the viewers of this debate, just as they knew that Bush did not perform up to speed last week, know full well what happened last night. The American people know full well. Pay no attention to all these polls from the Internet or all these cable networks and various newspapers that show Edwards won.<\/line> <\/line>In Philadelphia, the Philadelphia newspapers, some organization there, say 99% Edwards won, 72% Edwards won elsewhere, 84% Edwards won. This is because Terry McAuliffe again yesterday afternoon, sent out a spam e-mail to all the people on the mailing list at the DNC, gave all the website addresses and phone numbers and urged all the people that received the e-mail to give it to ten other people and spam these various sites to create the spin and the psyops operation that Kerry and Edwards won the debate last night. This is not genuine, and the balance is so out of whack that nobody is going to believe it, and I know the networks are citing it a little bit. I thought that after the debate when I looked at the faces of the Democrats in spin alley, they were not happy, they were not as ebullient, they were not ebullient at all, certainly not like they were after last week and that debate, and I am sure that there was disappointment on the press side, too, that Edwards didn\u2019t do as well. Strikingly, ladies and gentlemen, the best post-debate analysis last night was not on Fox. It was on NBC where Brokaw and Russert and Matthews all agreed that John Kerry is going to have to clean up for John Edwards Friday night.<\/line> <\/line> Where Mike Barnicle said that this debate reminded him of a father who has gone to college to pick up his son after his first year in school and the son wants to tell the father everything he learned, and the father is telling the son you don\u2019t know diddly-squat. You\u2019ve only spent one year in college, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. I\u2019m glad you\u2019re excited about learning, but let me tell you truth. That\u2019s Mike Barnicle last night on MSNBC. Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC made it plain that Cheney\u2019s daughter, his lesbian daughter, is very much involved in his campaign, that Cheney is not sequestering his daughter from public view. She was on stage last night with her partner. They\u2019re very close. Matthews was trying to make a point out of this as did Edwards in the debate, but it was Andrea Mitchell last night who made it plain that this is a dead-end street. Don\u2019t go there. Cheney and his daughter are very close, and it was her decision, in fact, not to appear on stage after his speech at the Republican National Convention. I\u2019ve got some other notes that I wrote here, but that\u2019s basically off the top of my head, what my impressions of this debate were last night. I didn\u2019t hear any smooth talking. I didn\u2019t see any young, vibrant future John Kennedy on stage. I saw a guy with deer-in-the-headlight eyes.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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