Now for the $64,000 question: After this, can anyone tell me just what the Heck is Kerry's Iraq policy?
Right.
Who is President Kerry going to be? We still don't know. And THAT is what Kerry's job was tonight- if W had calmed down more, that point would have come across more.
Going to take a week just to list the flips, flops and lies.
But a couple of friends emailed me, they have no idea what his Iraq policy is after listening to him.
Kerry needed a knockout, but Bush just needed to hold his own. And he did. Nothing much changed tonight.
Global Permission Slip
Kerry's "Mother may I" version of foreign policy.
I hate to say it, but it really doesn't matter.
Televised "debates" are about style points, targeted to the uninformed mushy undecided-class. Failing to understand and address the target audience is always a fatal mistake.
IMO, following this "debate", I give Kerry an (8) and President Bush a (6). Kerry did what he had to do, and GW was horribly unprepared. Lehrer helped Kerry at every opportunity. This debate was a huge missed opportunity for GW, and he has himself and his advisers to blame. This is not a practice game, it's the real thing.
BTW, the Republicans have been once again snookered by the leftist mass media. Communist Lehrer as moderator? Good God almighty! They remind me of how Charlie keeps agreeing to Lucy as the place kicker. Lehrer was a clever slime-ball, as usual.