First impression of the VP debate - what with the desk, they came across as a father and his son being called before the high school principal. Edwards managed to carry this further with his "yes, m'am."

Cheney had some really good lines. The one about not being able to stand up to the pressure of Howard Dean; the one about Edwards' Senate record and just meeting him for the first time; the one about Kerry's voting record over the last 20 years. Edwards had a few good lines but none of them were new.

All of the conservative blogs think that Cheney won. I checked a few liberal ones. The Daily Kos thinks that Edwards won (they really liked the line about work vs. wealth as though trial lawyers actually work). Wonkette didn't have much to say on her web site but on NBC her comment was that "Edwards could have done better."

National Review Online has a good summary of the debate.

Best line.

Will the family of a Veep wannabe, dark suit, dark hair, Dark Side, license # I-S-U-E-U, please come and claim the carcass?

Your junior lawyer has been trampled, pummeled, thumped, whupped, sliced, diced, julienned, fried, pureed, laughed out of the county, and has dismayed fellow slimebags across the nation.

You may claim the remains, collected in a large number of small baggies, at the Breck^TM booth.

Funny thing, Edwards, the cute, energetic, trial lawyer was supposed to slice Cheney up one side and down the other. What happened?