Today is my 1st WICTORY WRIDAY. :-)
Well, actually it's Wictory Wednesday 15, 2 days late.. :-)
This week, I'm gonna just comment on last nights Debate, and just suggest you check out the Friday Morning Quarterbacking of some of my fellows in the Blogroll accompanying this post, plus a few other links, INCLUDING the transcript of last nights debate.
For what it's worth here's MY 2 cents:
Some folks are crowing that Kerry LOOKED Presidential, and seemed more poised, and dissed the facial expressions of the President.
Some folks are either die-hard Kerry Boosters, or are just now tuning in to the election, FINALLY.
That was NOT what I saw last night.
While I think Bush seemed to run out of steam in the last 15 minutes, what went before more than covered for him.
Every time Bush responded Kerry should have just bent over, lowered his pants, and said:
"Thank you, Sir! Please, may I have another?"
It was THAT bad.
To put it quite plainly;
George Bush CRUSHED John Kerry on the FACTS.
Looks don't mean squat when he tried to take advantage of the fact that a lot of people were tuning in to the campaign for the first time, and may not be aware of EVERYTHING he had been saying, and all his votes, in the last 2 years.
If I was the President I'd look exasperated, and annoyed, too!
The President looked like he couldn't wait to respond, and his responses, to so much of what Kerry said was just right.
I wish he'd said more, in response to some things, but give him credit, where credit is due.
I was pleased that the Bush closing statement was a knockout, and made Kerry's look even less convincing.
Kerry's contradictions were evident, his ideas for what to do, bothersome, and for me THE moment that he LOST the debate came when the moderator asked him if a comment he made in protesting Vietnam, applied to Iraq.
MODERATOR: Senator Kerry. Speaking of Vietnam, you spoke to Congress in 1971, after you came from Vietnam, and you said, quote, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?
SENATOR KERRY: No, and they don't have to, providing we have the leadership that we put -- that I'm offering. I believe that we have to win this.
I mean, how can what he said, be accepted, when he feels ( or currently feels ) the way he does about the war in Iraq?
He once said Soldiers died in Vietnam for a mistake.
He says the Iraq War is a wrong war, yet he also says that our soldiers in Iraq are NOT dying for a mistake.
He also says that Iraq won't be a wrong war as long as we win it.
And HE knows how to win it.
What the???????
Others are doing a grand job of pointing out the lies Kerry spoke last night, and the disturbing ideas he espoused, and so my only concern is that those folks just now tuning in to the election will let the mainstream media pundits persuade them that supposed style wins out over actual substance.
It is absolutely frightening to see polls, this morning, claiming viewers think Kerry won ( WHAT debate were they watching?? ), but it is perversly reassuring to see these same folks saying that fact won't change their vote.
Americans are weird like that, I guess. :-)
The Presidential Debate Transcript.
The next month is crucial to informing the uninformed that John Kerry is NOT the best choice to be Leader of America, and of the Free World.
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