Posted on 10/01/2004 12:50:07 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Q 1 (to Kerry): Do you believe you could do a better job than President Bush in preventing another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States?
Q 2 (to Bush): Do you believe the election of Senator Kerry on November the 2nd would increase the chances of the U.S. being hit by another 9/11-type terrorist attack?
Q 3 (to Kerry): "Colossal misjudgments." What colossal misjudgments, in your opinion, has President Bush made in these areas?
Q 4 (to Bush): What about Senator Kerry's point, the comparison he drew between the priorities of going after Usama bin Laden and going after Saddam Hussein?
Q 5 (to Kerry): As president, what would you do, specifically, in addition to or differently to increase the homeland security of the United States than what President Bush is doing?
Q 6 (to Bush): What criteria would you use to determine when to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq?
Q 7: (to Kerry): Speaking of Vietnam, you spoke to Congress in 1971, after you came back 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?
Q 8: (to Bush): You have said there was a, quote, "miscalculation," of what the conditions would be in post-war Iraq. What was the miscalculation, and how did it happen?
Q 9 (to Kerry): You just -- you've repeatedly accused President Bush -- not here tonight, but elsewhere before -- of not telling the truth about Iraq, essentially of lying to the American people about Iraq. Give us some examples of what you consider to be his not telling the truth.
Q 10: (to Bush): Has the war in Iraq been worth the cost of American lives, 10,052... uh... 1,052 as of today?
Q 11: (to Kerry): Speaking of your plan, new question, Senator Kerry. Can you give us specifics, in terms of a scenario, time lines, et cetera, for ending major U.S. military involvement in Iraq?
Q 12: (to Bush): Does the Iraq experience make it more likely or less likely that you would take the United States into another preemptive military action?
Q 13(to Kerry): What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war?
Q 14 (to Bush): Do you believe that diplomacy and sanctions can resolve the nuclear problems with North Korea and Iran? Take them in any order you would like.
Q 15 (to Kerry): Senator Kerry, you mentioned Darfur, the Darfur region of Sudan. Fifty thousand people have already died in that area. More than a million are homeless. And it's been labeled an act of ongoing genocide. Yet neither one of you or anyone else connected with your campaigns or your administration that I can find has discussed the possibility of sending in troops.
Why not?
Q 16 (to Bush): Clearly, as we have heard, major policy differences between the two of you. Are there also underlying character issues that you believe, that you believe are serious enough to deny Senator Kerry the job as commander in chief of the United States?
Q 17 (to Kerry): If you are elected president, what will you take to that office thinking is the single most serious threat to the national security to the United States?
Q 18 (to Bush): All right. Mr. President, this is the last question. And two minutes. It's a new subject -- new question, and it has to do with President Putin and Russia. Did you misjudge him or are you -- do you feel that what he is doing in the name of antiterrorism by changing some democratic processes is OK?
I best summarized it as this.
Mr Bush - What did you do wrong?
Mr Kerry - What did Bush do wrong?
Excellent summary. That was just about it.
Maybe McAuliffe DID give the questions to Lehrer.
McAuliffe would have replaced the Sudan question with something about the Texas Air National Guard, but you are essentially correct.
McAuliffe is saving that for the last debate, closest to the election.
Mr Bush - What did you do wrong?
Mr Kerry - What did Bush do wrong?
Perfect summary.
How can people as obviously biased as Lehrer be perceived as fair, is beyond me.
It's beyond ALL of us here and I hope that it was just as obvious to most of the people who watched the debate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1232269/posts
Do you want to moderate the NEXT debate? ;)
I think that as compensation to Bush they should let Rush be the moderator of the next debate.
"Mr Bush - What did you do wrong?
Mr Kerry - What did Bush do wrong?"
Your summary is still the best. I reread the questions and this is exactly what they were.
Do you remember Layrah asking Bush that question, first run for either at it, about the other's integrity?
"Q 16 (to Bush): Clearly, as we have heard, major policy differences between the two of you. Are there also underlying character issues that you believe, that you believe are serious enough to deny Senator Kerry the job as commander in chief of the United States? "
This was a set up question also. If Bush said anything negative, he would be later attacked for being "meanspririted". If he said something neutral or positive, the Dems would be quoting him that he is endorsing Kerry. Bush handled it very well.
I believe the correct label is "uttering" a forged document, or in sKerry's case, a whole lot of documents! :-)
THAT WAS THE ? I was referencing....THAT right there was what impressed me the most, especially seeing that Bush was FEELING during this (fought that off pretty well, came off more the man for how he handled himself tonight, IMO) debate and probably wanted to say some things we all were wanting to say...Thanks FO!
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Insightful, concise, accurate. Brilliant description.
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