What was with that weird pursed lips look of Bush's everytime Kerry

[Ruffhowse]

hit a solid point against him? It made him look like a simpering old lady who couldn't believe that someone DARED to be critical of her.

[Technowitch]

1. He was trying to avoid two expressions--

--the Smirk, and angry petulance.

He succeeded only in the former.

[ET Awful]

2. He was trying to refrain from screaming DICK! KARL! Why didn't you

prepare me for this???? I need help, I'm dyin' out here.

[fishface]

3. A reverse smirk....LOL..nt

[donco6]

4. He's been so protected . . .

. . . with his campaign audiences being filtered, no dissenting voices ever being heard, to suddenly be thrust in front of what I felt was one of the best oratory demonstrations I've ever seen, he just collapsed. I thought he was going to meltdown right there on stage.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

5. He was getting hammered

His first impulse is to say something vicious and * was holding himself back, because he knew that he won't get good results by being a vicious shit on national TV.

He leaves that job to others.

I read an analysis of him regarding his problems in speaking and the author claimed he only fucked up when he was trying to be nice. This isn't natural for * and he stumbles. When *'s vicious, he's pretty articulate.

[prodigal_green]

8. and I think he broke a couple of the rules his people

so carefully negotiated. There were a couple of times when he just sort of piped in without waiting for Jim Lehrer to call on him. He was losing it.

[doni_georgia]

6. He had been warned by his handlers not to smirk

That was what happens when you try to swallow a smirk. I am a school teacher, and what I saw was the same looks I see in my students when I catch them doing something wrong - they know it - but they are trying their best to look innocent. Doesn't fly with my fourth graders and it sank like a lead balloon last night.

[markus]

7. Could it be . . . . Satan?!

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