Best Debate Description, and yet another picture

Reading some comments at the eschaton, Kay shared this precious observation with us.

About 40 minutes in Thursday night, my husband said, "This is why Andy wouldn't give Barney the bullets." I smiled or something; I was too busy celebrating to appreciate the analogy.

This morning I read Tom Shales in a WaPo column: "One longtime political observer -- among the friends canvassed by this critic -- was more irreverent about the debate and how the two debaters came off: "It was Andy Griffith meets Barney Fife," he said, with Kerry in the Griffith role -- solid, sanguine, sensible -- and Bush as the nervous Fife."

Here you go
quick and dirty