Overall, President Bush did much better. If you ask me he won, but I’m a pretty informed voter so most of what Kerry said just made me scream at the TV.
In no particular order:
- Does it bother anyone else when a Democrat invokes Republic presidents? (Ike and Reagan)
- As is typical, Kerry didn’t answer a single question on his plan. One thing I particularly noticed was he said his spending wasn’t really going to cost 2.2 trillion, but didn’t come back with his own number.
- On that theme, Bush was great when he said, “they say 800 billion, we say 600 billion, that’s still not enough”.
- Thinking about it, it was very weird when Kerry talked about how Rubin was going to help him make the numbers add up, that he’d scaled back on the things he’s promised. Er, ok, then what is is plan for America then? Bush has the Agenda for America, I guess Kerry has the “Secret Plan”? I’ve read his book, its just quotes from stump speeches…
- The President gave a great answer on the draft. A draft isn’t the right answer for the new kind of wars.
- The part where he cut off Charles Gibson just seemed to me like he was jumping to respond. They both did that.
- In the previous debate, President Bush lost his center after the question where Kerry accused him of shortchanging our troops on body armor. That really pissed him off. I was glad to see him come back with the obvious rejoinder that Kerry had voted against that body armor.
- In general, Bush did much better. His “I own a timber company? Anyone want some wood?” line was pretty funny.
- I think Bush is going to force Kerry to spend October defending his Senate record, which is a loser for Kerry, since its either underwhelming, or bad.
- Kerry thinks that “Equal Pay” is in the Constitution? Shudder…
Bottom line:
You could have replaced Kerry with a tape recorder to playback his canned responses, it would have been the same.
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