That's wired weird.
Electoral Vote Predictor has a hell of a picture showing what looks to be a square bulge with a wire snaking up to Bush's ear at the first debate.

Salon.com reports that Bush had a radio receiver taped to his back during the first debate so he could receive messages via a tiny hearing-aid-like device in his ear. They back this up with a photo. I have no way of verifying the story, but the Commission on Presidential Debates has verified that one of the rules of engagement the Bush campaign insisted on was no camera shots of the candidates from behind (which one of the pool cameras did anyway). This story is either investigative journalism at its best or wishful thinking. If you are not a Salon.com subscriber, you have to sign up for a free day pass to read the full story.

I obtained a copy of the debate video and the Red Hawk image intensification software (developed for NASA), which combines multiple images into a sharper image and then had the contrast enhanced with Photoshop. Other than cropping and resizing of the image, no other manipulation was done. I stand 100% behind the fact that this image was taken from the debate video, independently confirming the Salon.com photo, but interpretation is up to you.

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Kos points out that this story is officially leaving the Tin-Foil Chappeau Aficianado realm, into MSM:
This Photo
from and article in the New York Time shows what really looks like a radio receiver with a wire curling up Shrub's back towards his ear -- not a wrinkle in his suit which is stretched tight enough to even show the outline of the start of the curly-cue telephone cord style expansion wire starting midway up..