Some Thoughts

Nice posts by Garence. Those are good pics. I especially like the pyramids, of course.

As an initial matter, I'm begining to think that having three debates maybe isn't a concession at all. On a previous post, I referenced a graph that demonstrated the inverse relationship between Kerry's share value at Tradesports.com and the major stock indexes. I also observe that Kerry, who criticized Bush for not having enough press conferences and who promised to have monthly press confereces if president despite going 42 days between press conferences during a critical portion of the campaign, is like kryptonite when the American public gets to take a good hard look. Further evidence of this is the fact that the daily tracking polls showed that Kerry actually lost ground when he spoke at the dem convention.

In other words, maybe the Bush team used the third debate as a bargaining chip but really wanted the third debate anyway. Maybe they think that the more people see Kerry, the more they don't like him. I'm interested to read about the strategy after the election.

I should also note that today we received our first comment from a complete visitor! Look at the comments under the post "This is from SQ - the source is unkown." I don't know about ya'll but I think that's pretty cool. If you're out there 10573, kudos to you and keep coming back.

Also, I would love to get some feedback on yall's thoughts about the Bush interview on O'Reilly. Maybe one point that each of you took from it. I thought that the personal part was very moving. It is clear that he is a religious man and that he uses prayer to help him make the best decisions for this country.