Don't agree with you about the futility of the 'nitpicking'. IF Bush was being coached from backstage, not only was it completely unethical and contrary to the debate rules, John Kerry would have been debating more than one brain. (Well, at least a brain and a half.)

IF Bush cheated, it is a tremendous scandal. I would think there wouldn't be a hope of his getting elected.

I have no idea what the thing actually was but I do know two things:

1) He wore it on September 30, during the first debate
2) He wore it on October 8, during the second debate.
3) If it was a wrinkle in his suit, it wrinkled into neat right angles. What was it: a $50.00 suit?? Ya figure?

Incidentally, a 'man bra' - or a woman's bra, for that matter- would NOT have a square in the back above the shoulder blades. Nor would a girdle. A girdle is for the person's middle parts, not the shoulders.