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October 06, 2004
Wisdom Most Conventional
An important thing - especially for us humor writers - is not our own opinion about something, but what's the conventional wisdom (CW for short) on the subject. As a service, I thought I'd sum up all the conventional wisdom on the VP debate. CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE * Cheney performed well in the debate and helped stopped Kerry's momentum from the first presidential debate. * Cheney did better in the first half (the foreign policy part of the debate) than the second half, but that half was more important. * Gwen Ifill did a good job as moderator, but the part where they weren’t allowed to say their running mate’s name was a little odd. * By putting Kerry's senate record out on the table again, Cheney really helped the Bush campaign. * Though Cheney made Edwards look like a little scrappy schoolboy, Edwards's hair was shiny. * Cheney showed he wasn't the mean ogre the Democrats liked to portray him as by not lifting Edwards over his head and snapping him in two - something Cheney could easily do since his bionic heart gives him ten times the strength of the average man. * The debate proved once and for all that Edwards is, in fact, a homosexual. * There is nothing wrong with that. * When Edwards tearfully ran to his wife after the debate ended, the words he mouthed to her were, "Mommy!" * The might of the evil Halliburton corporation that backed Cheney was stronger than the might of Satan that backs all trial lawyers. * When Edwards's dad said he was watching to TV to learn to do math, he was just covering up to his son that he was actually watching porn. * The monkeys running around the stage showed that Cleveland has poor pest control. * When Cheney's criticism of the Kerry/Edwards campaign became quite sharp, it was considered quite childish how Edwards tried to hide under his suit jacket. * Though Cheney scored points against Edwards by pointing out his poor attendance record at the Senate and how Edwards had no penis, this helped little since the main target should have been Kerry. 15 Responses To "Wisdom Most Conventional"
First???? #1 - Posted by: Sarge on October 6, 2004 12:43 PMWow, first time being first. "Cheney showed he wasn't the mean ogre the Democrats liked to portray him as by not lifting Edwards over his head and snapping him in two - something Cheney could easily do since his bionic heart gives him ten times the strength of the average man." he should of ;) #4 - Posted by: urban on October 6, 2004 01:04 PMWas it my imagination or did the mediator look like she wanted to smack Edwards around a little bit too? When Edwards pulled his dirty lawyer trick and pretended to care that Cheney has a gay daughter, Cheney should have used the 30 second rebuttle to ask Johnny Boy if his wife knew she was a beard yet. #5 - Posted by: Wolf's Dawn on October 6, 2004 01:09 PM"The monkeys running around the stage showed that Cleveland has poor pest control." Those of you outside the Cleveland area probably didn't see this, but on our local news they showed all the hippies out on the Case campus, protesting Cheney's pressence apparently. More proof of our poor pest control. #6 - Posted by: Chris D on October 6, 2004 01:22 PMYour next Ronin Thought of the Day has to be a quote from Bill Whittle's latest essay at http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000108.html You know, everyone said this was going to be the "Dick Cheney as 'Dr. No' and John Edwards as 'Marshall Will Kane'" matchup. It turned out to be more of a "Perry White vs. Jimmy Olsen" matchup. I have some high-level highlights on the debate: CHENEY: EDWARDS: Even Daddy Edwards, who we were told learned how to count from "Sesame Street" by the warm soft glow of the TV in the kitchen on his days off from working at the mill, added up the debate scorecard and concluded that Dick Cheney handily beat his boy. #8 - Posted by: Scott on October 6, 2004 02:38 PMI predicted the monkeys would be there! And I'm not even in Ohio. I did fail in my prediction skills when I said the monkeys would eat Gwen Ifill. She cleverly hid her commieness thus confusing the wee beasties who instead ate Mary Beth Cowhull. #9 - Posted by: LynnGunn on October 6, 2004 02:56 PMEven I, one of the few token *non-hippie* libruls here, must admit that Darth Cheney pretty much ate BreckBoy's lunch. Our Pretty Boy did get in just a few little zings (yes, Cheney has, indeed, been insisting that Saddam was involved in 9/11, yadda yadda), but mostly was Miss Nell tied to the railroad tracks and John-Dudley Do-right was off sailboarding or something... ~sigh~ I have to disagree about Gwen. She apparently is a news reader and had only a slighty better control of the debate than Kerry has of reality. As for Cheney having met Edwards before: I have known of people whose presence is so imposing that it takes three or four introductions to remember who they are. #11 - Posted by: John on October 6, 2004 05:28 PMJean, Could you please provide a quote or proof that Cheney has linked 9/11 with Saddam. I am waiting with baited breath. #12 - Posted by: Carl P on October 6, 2004 07:41 PMcheney rocks... hes my hero.. #13 - Posted by: Urban on October 7, 2004 02:35 AMFrank, quit pretending that "there is nothing wrong with that." #14 - Posted by: Beo on October 7, 2004 09:38 AMAs a gay man, I just want to say that Edwards is way too metrosexual to be gay. #15 - Posted by: owlish on October 9, 2004 10:40 AMPost a comment
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