It was a great crowd (we were in the theater that is in the same building where George Gipp got sick, I understand), and they did turn people away at the door. Here was my moral victory: David Corn didn’t once accuse Bush of “lying” in the run-up to the war, although he made one half-hearted reference to misleading the public toward the end. This shows that even Corn, who wrote a whole book on this topic, apparently considers the “Bush lied” case so difficult to defend that he didn’t want to bother. He focused instead on the incompetence of the managenment of the war, where I think there are indeed legitmate criticisms to be made–so this was stronger ground for him. Also, the crowd was tilted pretty strongly in his direction and was, hate to say, more sour and ill-mannered than any I have yet encountered in our debates. I was briefly heckled and probably made my most persuasive point when I gratuitously attacked the University of Michigan football team. (It’s all about the pandering!) But I hammered away, and it was truly a joy to be on campus and meet a lot of extraordinary kids.