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FR Live Thread: Bush Kerry - First Debate - Thread 2 - Here we go!

Posted on 09/30/2004 5:57:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator

Thread 1 - Pre-Debate discussion


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; debate; debates; electionpresident; firstdebate; globalpoints; kerry
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To: sandbar
Bush used a 30 second rebuttal to say the same thing he said four times already. Word for word. And even stuttered and stumbled while saying it.

I noticed that, too. Damn, why isn't Dubya more on the offense... *sigh*

1,581 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:34 PM PDT by nutmeg ("The DemocRATic party...has been hijacked by a confederacy of gangsters..." - Pat Caddell, 11/27/00)
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To: Admin Moderator
Been watching for an hour.

Bush is like Reagen in that first debate. He sounds beleaguered, and his plaintive tone is unpresidential.

He is on the defensive, and is the LOSER in the debate. He invokes the extra reburral when he has lost the point, and doesn't know enough to let it go when he has little more to say.

I went in thinking Bush would be the powerful victor. but Kerry owns Bush in this debate.

I hope no intelligent undecided voters are watching!
1,582 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:33 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Ol' Sox

Agree. President Bush must stand straighter. He is leaning on the podium which is not a commanding position for any debate. Keep praying everyone...that is the best we can give President Bush.


1,583 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:38 PM PDT by crionlion
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To: MNJohnnie

Ok,,everyone is entitled to their view,,,we can all agree on that...

we don't have to parrot each other,if some are upset or whatever,,that's cool

if some are happy,,coooool

I don't like Kerry,,he is a total LIAR,,,and no one is calling him on it


1,584 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:39 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: kristinn
Kerry's BS is tough to plow through. But Bush is tougher. Hang in there.

I'm trying O FReepmeister - I'm really trying...but Bush seems unable to call Kerry on his misrepresentations (read: lies). So far, I'm disappointed. Bush's bumbling tonight isn't helping his case either.

Maybe I just need a beer - or two.

1,585 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:43 PM PDT by ErnBatavia ("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
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To: ErnBatavia
Easy, amigo....if Bush is getting his ass kicked - because he for some reason is NOT rebutting Kerry's lies - he's getting his ass kicked. There's no denying it.

Que va amigo! No REAL leader spends his time refuting every lie his opponent parrots. That not only looks petty, it is letting the opponent set the agenda and looks defensive.

Most of Kerry's lies are obvious and those that are not will be picked apart by the talking heads after the debate.

In any case Bush has called Kerry on the most important lies. Bush is doing great.

1,586 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:44 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: jbarkley

"I know he's not a smooth talker"

"He may not be a smooth talker, but he's a straight shooter" - Zell Miller

Notice how Kerry has called W a liar so many times without actually saying it? "here's the REAL STORY on North Korea"
Piece of $hit, weasel-a$$, chees-eating, surrender monkey, pi$$ant!

W should just hit him and get it over with; then walk through the crowd giving eastwood's speech from the end of the Unforgiven


1,587 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:47 PM PDT by tuff_schlitz
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To: Taffini

Jeez no kidding? He's now saying we're supposed to work through the African Union? Those thugs? Oh-oh, a back-door draft!


1,588 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:54 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: telebob
Dubya's talking International Criminal Court.

Dubya's winning this debate. It doesn't look it -- in fact he looks like c*ap -- and everybody is going to say afterwards he lost, but at the end the votes are going to go to him.

1,589 posted on 09/30/2004 7:08:57 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: TASMANIANRED

You didn't expect this thread to be on overload tonight? Don't flip out. Watching the debate is worse than being on this thread.


1,590 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:02 PM PDT by no more apples (God Bless our troops)
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To: schouston

Piffle


1,591 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:04 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: Perdogg

In retrospect, Al Gore's voice and tone were much more annoying than Kerry's.


1,592 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:08 PM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: geege
Gee, Kerry wants the UN involved with Iraq, sez we are going it alone (even though we obviously have a coalition).

The President has a coalition against N. Korea. Kerry wants to go it alone.

1,593 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:09 PM PDT by alancarp (When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
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To: Rocko

hey guys.. cant watch. dont want -any-details. just overall.. who is ahead? thanks!


1,594 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:10 PM PDT by phxaz (for now it's a cold civil war in the usa.)
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To: conservativo

re:Kerry, I would have been a better choice-

"You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself go by....
You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, i'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? don't you?


1,595 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:10 PM PDT by okokie (Laura Bush is a REAL WOMAN, a lady with manners and grace)
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To: 4MORE-YEARS
I believe Kerry getting the opening question put our President on defensive and it is staying that way.

President Bush is a morning person, like me, and we don't do very well in the evening............

1,596 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:10 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Hey, I met the Bush Twins !!!)
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To: All

Draft Alert!


1,597 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:15 PM PDT by Hadean (The 2nd Amendment: The Original Homeland Security.)
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To: AmericaUnited
Thank you.

I don't think the President is doing as well as he could, and I think the Senator is doing as well as any Democrat hoped.

But to throw in the towel at this point is pathetic. I'm embarrassed by the lack of intestinal fortitude here.

This election is eminently winnable.

So far this debate is a draw.

1,598 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:23 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: OXENinFLA

NUKE FULE? This is HUGH!!!!


1,599 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:25 PM PDT by Lockbar (Worried about lead poisoning? Then stop eating the paint chips, Dummy!)
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To: GVgirl

W is doing much better now- Kerry is still calm but what has he said substantial? NOTHING. He has no more plans on the table than he did before.


1,600 posted on 09/30/2004 7:09:27 PM PDT by lawgirl (I like knowing where my President is every night- at home in bed with his wife!)
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