Morris is saying GWB won on substance but Kerry on style and he never saw GWB so unfocused, so inarticulate and so tired and distracted as he appeared tonight. Said he wasn't nearly as strong as he was in 2000 against McCain and Algore. Some of the same negative assessment I heard earlier tonight which prompted me to go over to CNN. Kicker was to listen to a spokesman for CNN who pointed out six major policy lies that Kerry told and even Wolf was backing up some of the claims. When Franks came on to dispute others, I was hoping many of the undecideds were watching CNN and not foxnews.
I don't think W came across as tired and unfocussed. I think he looked angry. Kerry was lying, and 90 seconds wasn't enough to prove it.
I don't think this debate changed anyone's mind. I saw the lies, but my Liberal friends saw Kerry as being calm.
What gives me hope is that the media gave Gore high marks immediately after the debates then his exaggerations & inconsistencies were uncovered in the following days.
The Bush campaign must go hard after the kerry lies and his remark about 'the Global Test' he'd do before 'going to war'.
Bush did look somewhat tied...Did you see the pictures of him comforting the hurricane ravaged Floridians?.....that kind of emotional drain has got to be exhausting.
He has a very soft compassionate heart and I'm sure that experience added to his fatigue.
Despite that I think he held his own....remember everyone in the media raved about Kerry's debating skills before the debate?
Kerry debated like a senator negative, pompous, meandering and verbose......Bush came across as the President.....focused, resolved, clear and optimistic!
Maybe the fact that a domestic terrorist was arrested in Wisconsin before he was able to blow up several buildings, a laser attack on a Delta pilot and copilot in Utah and a pipeline blown up in Houston this week had something to do with it. Not only that but Russia approved the Kyota treaty, a bunch of kids got blown up in Iraq and there were major events in the Gaza strip today. I think that the President has more on his mind than the pompous, supercillious traitor who wants his job.