Many think VP Burns Cheney did a slow fade as the debate proceeded Tuesday night. James Wolcott knows why:
Seinfeld scholars will remember the episode in which Elaine hired Jerry’s father for a job a J. Peterman, much to her regret. He didn’t know how to get rid of him without actually firing him. Do what I do at the Yankees, George advised. Schedule meetings late in the afternoon. These guys get up at dawn and by lunch they’re completely wiped. Elaine followed George’s counsel, and Jerry’s father had a conniption fit at the first meeting that dragged all the way past 5 PM.
I think we saw that last night. Cheney, like everyone else in the Bush White House, gets up at birdless dawn and by early evening shows unmistakable signs of testiness and snappishness. He had one good early round in last night’s debate, but faded long before the finish….