You must have dozed off during the President's response on bilateral talks with the North Korean Kook. Bush made it very clear that his strategy of engaging China, Japan, and other countries in bringing pressure to bear on NK is working.
As W said, there is nothing Kim Jong-il would like better than to go back to bilateral talks ( a la Clinton), and get China off his back!
No, I heard the response, but what Bush didn't do is drive home the comparison of Kerry wanting a coalition in Iraq while advocating demolishing one in North Korea. He missed a chance to demonstrate a massive flip-flop.
David Remnick, of The New Yorker is on Imus making fun of Bush, but he says he's not willing to say viewers won't still give the win to Bush, because he remembers 2000 when the tv talkers gave the debate to Gore, but when the numbers came in, Bush won.
Imus says the polls are going to show Bush did better than the initial opinions of the talking heads.
Tim Cagle, Debate Expert on FOX & Friends says Kerry was more conversational, came across as relaxed and definitively. Expert says Bush was very concise, very much like 2000, very natural. He says Bush is going to get hit hard on the Saturday Night Live factor..those cutaway camera shots.