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Jesse Walker | 9.30.2004 11:50 PM

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George W. Bush : "hard work" :: Al Gore : "lock box"

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. JDM   21 years ago

    George W. Bush : "articulate" :: Al Gore : "not a psychotic loon"

  2. Bill   21 years ago

    Why, Jesse? Why must you polute my brain with memories of Al Gore? Bush and Kerry give me enough pain as it is!

  3. cdunlea   21 years ago

    If "hard work" was on my drinking game scorecard tonite, hoo boy...

  4. david   21 years ago

    George Bush :: Hard Work
    John Kerry :: Alliance

  5. Shawn Levasseur   21 years ago

    Wait... if memory serves it was ...

    Al Gore:"Lock box", GW Bush: "Strategery"

    oh... you mean we weren't talking about the SNL parody debates?... My bad.

  6. Pedro   21 years ago

    Does anybody here actually know anybody whos decision about who to vote for is affected by these debates?

  7. Jon H   21 years ago

    George W. Bush: "Hard work? I've heard of it."

  8. Rick Barton   21 years ago

    On Iraq, Bush let the neocons play us for idiots and Kerry proposes to fix it by playing other nations for idiots.

  9. Cletus Nelson   21 years ago

    George W. Bush: "You can't win the War on Terror by changing your position in the War on Terror."

  10. ash   21 years ago

    George W. Bush : 'Saddam bin Laden' :: Al Gore : 'invented internet'

    ash
    ['Tra-la-la-la-la...']

  11. mr. sun   21 years ago

    I am reminded by the old Texas spritual, "He's been workin' in the White House."

  12. Ken Shultz   21 years ago

    "Star Wars" : Ronald Reagan :: "allies" and "summit" : John Kerry

  13. JDM   21 years ago

    John Kerry : "I believe America?s best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear." :: Kodos : "Forward, not backward! Upward, not forward! And always twirling, twirling, TWIRLING toward freedom!"

  14. Joe L.   21 years ago

    ?

  15. norbizness   21 years ago

    Hard work : Bush :: Silver bullet : Werewolf in Stephen King's masterpiece starring the delicious talents of Corey Haim, Silver Bullet

  16. joe   21 years ago

    So you're all hot to trot on the "how blogs are eroding old styles of media and politics?" Check this out:

    http://jackpinesavage.blogspot.com/2004/10/post-debate.html

  17. s.a.m.   21 years ago

    Bush: Strong Offense
    Kerry: Strong Defense

    Bush: Vladmer
    Kerry: Mr Putin

    Kerry: US and UK
    Bush: You forgot Poland

    Dean: Yeeeeaaaaaoowwwwww!

  18. G dub   21 years ago

    Presidenting is hard work!

    (stolen from Oliver Willis)

  19. Rain Man   21 years ago

    I drive my car in the driveway. It's hard work, very hard, hard, hard, hard work.

  20. Pete Guither   21 years ago

    I've seen people drive cars on TV. I know it's hard work.

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