The Second Round

So, C-SPAN is an internet basket case, but I can watch the debate with no problems via the BBC.

For shame.

Just a couple of highlights.

First, I figure that what's good for the Gore is good for the Bush, so I'd like to note this quote:

That's why I proposed a hydrogen automobile -- hydrogen-generated automobile.

Did you hear that everyone? Leno, and all you other morons, listen up. Clear as can be. Bush claimed that he invented hydrogen fuel cell!

Put that in your monologue and smoke it.

Second, in his closing statements (so in all likelihood these words were scripted), after it's been said time again in the news, and by Kerry in the debate, that there were no WMDs in Iraq, I was pained to hear Bush say this:

The great threat to our country is that these haters end up with weapons of mass destruction.

Weapons of mass destruction? Really?

Is this supposed to have something to do with your foreign policy, i.e. Iraq?

Well, where do they come from, these weapons?

Please do tell me, where do the WMDs come from? Where? Whence are these "haters" going to acquire these WMDs?

Where are the weapons?

W H E R E

A R E

T H E

G A W D

D A M

W E H

P U N S

?

Maybe they come from the WMD fairy? The magical WMD fairy who lives in Iraq? The invisible magical WMD fairy who lives in Iraq, and who will distribute nukuler warheads and anthrax to Islamic fundamentalists unless we keep it frightened with vociferous fighting?

My head hurts. Make it stop.