Spot on analysis and commentary.
* Kerry said something about us not passing the "global test" and Bush said our national security is not "popularity contest"
* I'm trying to think of anything bad that Bush said and I can't really think of anything.
* Bush had trouble sometimes articulating his points, while Kerry seemed a more polished debator.
* Kerry says he would have turned control of Iraq over to the UN; this made me think of Rwanda
* Kerry wants to "go it alone" with North Korea, which is inconsistent with his views on Iraq and his "global test" statement
* Kerry made a good point about cargo containers; but Bush mentioned costs and Kerry responded with something about tax cuts for the rich and this made me think about how Kerry would raise taxes which would hurt the economy.
* Kerry kept alluding to Bush being a liar about the war, but it seems he came to the same conclusions about it when it was politically expediate for him to do so. He said something about "yes, war was the right authority to grant but we didn't do enough before using the authority" and Bush said we'd been waiting long enough, Saddam would soon have been let out his box (so to speak). * Kerry feels this is the "wrong war, wrong place, wrong time..."
* Kerry at once said the war was a mistake, but wouldn't tell the troops their cause was a mistake.
As I think about it, I can't really think of Bush saying anything wrong, though I think Kerry left a little doubt in people's minds about whether we might have rushed too quickly to war in Iraq - though I feel Bush answered this pretty well. However, Kerry said a lot of little things that didn't seem right; it surprised me a little, in fact, when he admitted he'd do things like "global test" and turning Iraq over to the UN, etc.
IMHO