Tom Tomorrow is surprised This Modern World:

I have to admit, I'm surprised by the public response (though not unpleasantly so)--this is how Bush always looks to me. So he's shifty-eyed, smirks inappropriately, doesn't seem capable of maintaining a coherent train of thought for a full ninety seconds, seems generally befuddled and irritable? Well, it's nice the media and the commentariat finally noticed, but it's not exactly as if any of this is news. Point is, when I went back to the hotel last night I was too tired to watch much post-debate spin, so I had no real idea how this was going to play--I would have been unsurprised to find that Kerry had been declared the loser, or that the whole thing had been declared a draw. I just can't tell anymore. The gulf between what I observe when watching Bush and what the media report has just grown too wide.

I started this here blog (which got its perhaps-first non-friend reader last night, thanks for stopping by, narcissist :) because one day, I felt this exact way about the Iraq war reportage. I hope that this is the first weekend of the rest of our lives, and that in a few months, I'll be inspired to write another such dream column about how Bush had no clothes on the WHOLE TIME.

It feels like something is happening. I hope that's real. I've often marveled at how this election seems to go the way I want it to just at the right time.
¶ 9:59 AM