Debate Notes: What We Missed Yesterday

•"The 2004 presidential debates are taking shape as a multi-installment mini-series. You’ve got a three-act structure (four if you include the vice presidential encounter), recurring characters, and a narrative line driven by the ups and downs of the stars." [ Cinemocracy ]

•Campaign Desk visits Spin Alley, makes shocking discovery: "Surrogate after surrogate repeated the same talking points, no matter what the question." [ Campaign Desk ]

•"In addition to being ahomosexual, Mary Cheney is also purportedly alesbianordyke, or whatever labels or epithets conservatives would like to use as they harass and/or beat up gay people in cities and towns across America." [ low culture ]

•"WMD,troops safe,terrorists dead, Osama??? Look up!!" Bush's debate notes. [ That's Uncalled For ]

•"I am sure many of you stayed up to watch the vice presidential debate last night. (Applause.) America saw two very different visions of our country, and two different hairdos." [ WhiteHouse.gov ]