Perhaps someone can help me with this. But I’m pretty sure both campaigns agreed in advance that they wouldn’t use clips from the debate as part of TV ads. But I assume that doesn’t mean the DNC can’t use them on the site or that independent groups can’t use on their sites or even, themselves, use them in ads.
As I noted last night, President Bush’s reactions during Sen. Kerry’s comments looked really bad. I’ve heard various people say he looked peevish or irritable or tense of sullen or whatever. But what came through to me most though was that he didn’t like being up and hearing himself criticized.
Whatever moods or feelings you ascribe to him, Democrats really need to pick up this ball and run with it and have people see those images again and again because they play to an impression of a man who is out of touch, doesn’t like being questioned, petulant, unable to take criticism, as short on temper as on facts. Small, angry and in over his head.
Nervous, unpredictable … (could I go on and on? Yes, and so should the Dems …)
