Replies

To be honest, the President was clearly low on energy tonight. He did sound tentative and made a few more verbal gaffes than usual. He's a guy that gets up at 5:30am and I think that Karl Rove made a mistake scheduling this so late to let this hit the West Coast at 6pm. I fully agree with Fred Barnes though. If the Press thinks they won, they're totally mistaken. Even when Bush was struggling for an answer or restraining his anger or cynicism at the Press, he was scoring points with all Americans who love this country and view ourselves as patriots.

On the political campaign level, you could not have a more stark contrast between Bush tonight and Kerry. This is where I think that the pretender to the throne was badly shown up for the fake that he is tonight. Bush's last line was perfect. "People know that when I speak, I mean it. That's incredibly important for the U.S. in the World that they know that we mean what we say."

Message to Kerry--Ouch! That's going to leave a mark. Put some ice on it, ya' big whiner!

To be honest, the President was clearly low on energy tonight. He did sound tentative and made a few more verbal gaffes than usual.

Bush, as usual, was slow and quite tentative in the first 25 minutes. But then, as usual, like some switch being turned on--his fire ignited and he was more impressive than any President I have ever seen to close this out. Neither Reagan nor Clinton's styles work any more--too Hollwood and too slick. But Bush comes across so well to average Americans. He just oozes INTEGRITY. Kerry's statement was so weak. He must surely realize his task is impossible.