Edwards Wins, Cheney Smears

Last night, the one and only vice-presidential debate between Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney and John "Luke Skywalker" Edwards showed that evil has a face, and it is Dick Cheney.

From the beginning, Cheney forced Edwards to split his attention between countering Cheney's lies and getting the messege out about what a Kerry-Edwards administration could do for the US. Meanwhile, Cheney seemed to get a free pass from moderator Gwen Ifill. Several times during the debate, Ifill gave Cheney the 30 second discussion time, but didn't give Edwards the same 30 second rebuttle as was done during the presidential debate last Thursday. In one instance when Ifill slipped and gave Edwards the 30 second rebuttle, she took it back after Edwards spoke for 15 seconds.

Since Edwards attention was split, he was not able to deliver the "knockout punch" needed to put this Vampire back in his casket. Thus, although the instant polls show the people thought that Edwards is the winner...

All Poll results are as of Wednesday 10/6/04 9:20 am

MSNBC

Edwards: 61%
Cheney: 39%

CNN (this is before they took the poll down like a bunch of cowards!)

Edwards: 85%
Cheney: 12%

CBS (If you care to trust them anymore...)

Among Undecided Voters

Edwards: 41%
Cheney: 28%
Tie: 31%

In the InstaPoll

Edwards: 81%
Cheney: 17%

FOX News (I know, can you truly trust these guys...but here's their poll as of 2am this morning)

Edwards 54%
Cheney 46%

Please note that all polls listed above are not scientific and are pretty much nothing more than bat squeeze, but the pundits are calling this debate for Cheney. Given how they thought the first debate between Bush and Kerry was a tie, it just shows you how asleep these folks are, or how deep they are in this administration's pockets.

Some interesting notes: Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that there was no definitve evidence for WMDs in Iraq. I know, seems like before the war, Rumsfeld knew exactly where the weapons were. He later retracted this statement. Meaning that he told the truth, and is apologizing for telling the truth. Paul Bremer, the guy that was interim governor of Iraq stated yesterday that he thought we needed many more troops on the ground in Iraq to win the peace. Hmmm...isn't that what General Shinseki said? Where's he now? Oh yeah, just like Paul Bremer, retired by the Bush administration. Given these two statements from prominent officials in the Bush Administration, Cheney's messege starts to crumble. With this base of fear crumbling, The Cheney-Bush (make no doubt, this is how it works, not the other way around) record on domestic issues wilts inthe light like a vampire before sunlight.

Conclusion: Edwards, although not as clear a winner as Kerry, won this debate with a good combination of defense (debunking lies) and offense (telling US citizens what a Kerry administration would do for them).