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?
or both
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G'night FRiends...and I mean it, g'night! lol
G'Night!
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The Q's show a tilt, no question. But The President IS the President and he has actions to explain to the American people. Kerry has accusations and proposals. It's the nature of their situation that The Pres. is going to get the tougher questions. Kerry's answers were full pf platitudes, falsehoods and some downright lies. It was up to the President to say "There you go again!!" For the most part he did not. That's not the moderator's fault.
Outstanding post. Thanks.
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When you have an incumbent, its called defending your record. Bush could have and who knows may have won with these questions. I really dont see what your complaining about? Did you really expect Lehrer to ask Kerry about Vietnam or the Nuclear Freeze Movement. Both are ancient history. Bush could have covered either in his response to any number of questions. Dont blame the Moderator for the fact that no one fed the President answers for his questions.
If these questions were biased, then list how you would change them. What would you have had Lehrer ask? I still say when you have a challenger taking on an incumbent President in a time of war, its not surprising that the questions would focus on Iraq and the Presidents prosecution of the war.
Where do we go to file a complaint against Lehrer. He was blatantly biased. He's unfit to be a moderator.
good summary fairopinion. i am honestly fed up with the republicans' apparent lack of spine...if they allow the next debates to be moderated as planned, they are nuts. they will be set up again to make kerry shine and not hold him accountable for HIS POSITIONS AND EFFORTS as opposed to always allowing the President's to be scrutinized.
It's not about the questions, it's about the answers. Kerry did not answer the questions, he made charges.
I'm wondering if Kerry and his camp had previous knowledge of what the questions would be.....
I had the same impression... the focus of the evening seemed to be a critique on Bush's performance as Commander in Chief, at least that was the tenor of the questions. I never got straight what Kerry would have done different other than that he would have done better. Also, I don't think he very really out lined a pan for Iraq that differed from Bush other than to promise that he would bring in more allies (France and Germany?).
Mr Bush - What did you do wrong?
Mr Kerry - What did Bush do wrong?
When I was watching the debate I didn't perceive a bias in the questions. But reading them over now, I think you nailed it.
What did Bush say? I worked way too late last night...
Watching CSPAN this morning I think Brian deliberately replayed ONLY THE QUESTIONS POSED BY LEHRER(without candidate responses)to prove your point. He didn't really explain before or after why he did that.
I also noticed how the MSM's half-truths and obfuscations in reporting on Iraq, as well as the lack of any good news about our troops, dovetailed right into Kerry's talking points.
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When I was watching the debate I didn't perceive a bias in the questions. But reading them over now, I think you nailed it.
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