Of COURSE Bush looked peeved. He looked like he wanted to mix it up but because his people agreed to a restrictive format, he didn't have the gloves off enough to go after all the lies that Kerry kept putting out there. At one point, Kerry made a statement, specifically denying saying that he'd EVER given a 6 month timeline for removing troops. Other than the fact that it was all over the headlines for several days as a way to prove that Kerry "has a plan" which the media was desperate to do, I was able to find NUMEROUS quotes of it from his interview on NPR in under 1 minute. The man opens his mouth and lies every time.
And then I turned on the morning spots and found they were gleefully orgasmic about the fact that Kerry didn't fall flat on his face. CNN had a crew of people watching Kerry doing fact checking and another watching Bush. During the immediate post-debate coverage, they asked the Bush guy. "Well, we watched and checked all his facts. The one glaring issue, Kerry brought up immediately." They were thrilled that they found something that, while true, Kerry believed was false, so they jumped on it. The guy in charge of watching Kerry rattled off 8 items as if they were nothing.
Kerry was VERY Clintonesque in at least one of his accusations. And Bush missed a great opportunity. Kerry jumped in and stuck both feet in his mouth when he said that Iraq had nothing to do with the War on Terror because the 9/11 commission concluded they had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush should have said "That's because it's a War on TERROR, not a War on 9/11."
Paul
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'Bush should have said "That's because it's a War on TERROR, not a War on 9/11."'
Thanks for stating this. Why is it so difficult for ANY administration spokesman to state this. Bin Laden is the titular head of al quaeda. But we are at war against them all: al quaeda, ansar al Islam, Hamas, The Salmon Pac Trainees, The Baghdad Brigade of Death, The Unholy Alliance of Meteor Worshipers, etc., etc. Why is it so HARD for these spokekesmen to fall for the tired old line that we "dropped the ball on bin Laden?" Do they want to lose this election?