So, what'd you think? I was a bit disappointed...

I watched a few minutes of Condi at the gym (watching the closed captions.) I started muttering, "Strawman, Condi-baby, strawman!" and "Oh, here we go with more lies" and "A schedule to keep for FUNDRAISING you mean!" to my workout partner. Ok, maybe I wasn't completely muttering, because the guy on the treadmill on the other side of me kinda glanced at me. And then he went to another part of the gym. *cackle!*

I thought Dean was fine. (Watched him at home on the Tivo.) Not stunning, but fine. Three things of interest: 1) Timmy let him go on and on and on without interrupting him and saying "No nono nonononono" like he did last summer. (Dean's not as much of a threat so they'll let him talk now.) 2) I think he and Kerry worked out some talking points - Dean said "Kerry's an internationalist" at least twice, maybe more. And I thought he finessed the "but you said Kerry was wrong on the war" reasonably well. 3) The man is still really outraged at the Bushies -- today's example being the lying about the costs of the medicare bill and the threats against those who would tell the truth. We need more of that outrage from Democrats. As Dean said, if Clinton had done something similar, they'd have impeached him again.

I'm going to read the transcript [by NYCO] again later if I have a chance and see what else can be gleaned from it.

Oh, and Dean has now been successfully taught to use the interviewer's name more often: "Thanks for having me on, Tim" at the beginning and "Thanks, Tim" at the end. They need the ego-boo. I could swear I saw a bit of a self-conscious smirk on Dean's part both times, but I might be projecting.