During the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night, Dick Cheney referred viewers to FactCheck.com for information about Halliburton’s record. When the curious attempted to visit FactCheck.com, though, they were redirected to George Soros’s blog — and Soros had no idea why. His website says he still doesn’t know what’s going on, but CNN does. Here’s the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/06/debate.website.ap/index.html
I tried to watch the debate last night but had to turn it off somewhere in the middle of the discussion of domestic policy. Both men seemed petty and somewhat unfocused and, at least during the part I watched, more interested in arguing over what was or was not true than they were about discussing anything. I’ve got an image (admittedly uninformed) of Cheney as a fairly evil man, but last night he did seem far less sinister than I’ve thought of him previously. He also seemed like an argumentative liar, but so did Edwards, and I began the evening expecting at least good things from *him*. I guess that’s par for the course — while the presidential candidates have to keep it at least relatively clean, the veeps can come out swinging.