- I found the Bush twins to be very annoying, in a ditzy sorrority sister sort of way (and whoever wrote and vetted that speech should be given his/her walking papers immediately) but I believe they provided an interesting contrast to the Kerry girls.
The Kerrys seemed to have a thinly-veiled snarkiness to their characters that they did their best to repress – they must have had an awful lot of neck strain from keeping their noses at a Regular Joe, non-Learjet-Flying-Squirrel-owning level.
The Bush girls, on the other hand, just seemed like genuinely nice young women who had accidentally wandered out onto the stage in search of some shindig where the possibility of Adult Beverages being served was high. I have to give them leeway, though, as prior to this point, they’ve had zero chances to speak in public and making your debut in front of millions of viewers in prime time is certainly a trial by fire. - Aron provided me with some amusement today with a wonderfully topical Mondegreen: instead of hearing Outkast say “shake it like a Polaroid picture”, he always heard the lyric as “shake it like a corduroy preacher”. That’s right up there with Bush’s (the band, not the president) “Listerine” and “Mushy Head”, in my opinion.
- James Lileks provides one of the best attempts at spelling Ahnuld’s accent phonetically I’ve ever seen: medicine square godden. Just try saying it aloud and you’ll see what I mean.
- Gen. Tommy Franks looks rather strange out of his uniform. Let’s hope the lighting’s better on stage when he makes his endorsement of Bush.
I’ll be back with more later.
