Bush needs to come out swinging Friday, without looking too angry or desperate....but he needs to speak more fluently and look more at ease. I'm still shocked at how poorly he did when you compare it with his performance on O'Reilly the week before.
The VP debate is a hard one to predict. Cheney has the ability to come across with more gravitas than Edwards but I don't think we should forget that Edwards is very smooth and, as a trial lawyer, very good at making arguments in front of an audience. Edwards task will be to keep from being too smooth and smarmy. I don't know if he can do it but it will be interesting.