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About those lectern lights

September 30, 2004 by Scott Rosenberg

As Salon’s War Room discussed earlier today, the Bush campaign insisted on those ridiculous recumbent traffic lights on each candidate’s lectern, hoping that the emphasis on the time limits would hurt the proverbially long-winded John Kerry.

So it only serves them right that, while Kerry stuck to the rules and confined his responses to the allotted time, those dumb lights only ended up emphasizing the multiple occasions on which George Bush ran out of things to say before his lights had flashed.

What was supposed to highlight one candidate’s verbosity ended up emphasizing the other’s vacuity.

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