Remember those post-debate "truth score cards" in 2004? Where Bush told endless whoppers and they had to twist Kerry's statements and add a lot of "ifs" in order to come up with an equal number of falsehoods. I remember in particular, I think it was in the first debate, when they set on Kerry for claiming a spending figure for the Iraq war that was way too high -- he gave the amount allocated rather than the amount already spent. Within months, of course, it had blown past both figures so he was right.

The score card after the Cheney/Edwards debate was even more laughable. Cheney connected Iraq and 9/11, then half an hour later denied doing it. Meanwhile, with Edwards they were reduced to "While his statement was technically true, he didn't mention...."