Lando 
Posted on 10/01/2004 8:25:57 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Lando
Not worried.
I like cheese.
Kerry is a joke...he can't agree on any conviction because he is TOO caught up in being "Anti-Bush"...
The key to the city will be the polls including the one poll that counts. I doubt any of these dueling infomercials will alter a single vote.
I see no reason to be "uneasy" about anything at this point.
I was under the impression that there had to be a decisive blow made by Kerry in order to give him any chance at all of winning the election, and it just wasn't there.
Undoubtedly, President Bush could have done much better, and most here would have been much happier with a performance by President Bush that would have buried Kerry once and for all, but the format of this debate pretty much guaranteed that it wasn't going to happen, IMO.
What we got, IMO, was simply more of the same that we have heard for months now from both sides.
I think the markets shooting up this morning may mean that there's a sigh of relief that Bush didn't get killed last nite. If Kerry won on points, that's fine but he didn't seem to change any minds or very few from what I've gathered. I think the markets have reacted to that or unless there's some other piece of economic data that caused them to shoot up this morning.
you are right even tho he didn't quite look alive.
I thought his wife wanted to leave with the Bushes, he had to call her back twice and then lead her off.
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She was probalby pleading to be saved.
I didn't think he look quite alive.
His wife looked like she wanted to leave with the Bush family, he had to call her back twice and then led her off.
Bush was asked point-blank about Kerry's character, and he passed up the best chance to hit on the absolute core issue of just why Kerry is dishonest and shouldn't be trusted with the Presidency. Kerry has a twenty-year record in the Senate of voting against military programs and against the use of American force, which should give anyone good reason to wonder why we should believe that Kerry believes in "strengthening" America. And his testimony and behavior upon coming home from Vietnam just reinforces this. The actual life and record cannot be reconciled with the current rhetoric if you just put it out there for the people.
I like Bush, but he's just too nice for his own good most of the time. Zell Miller would have destroyed the guy.
Hilarious. And so true. Earlier this week, there was an aura of inevitability surrounding the election, I think Kerry managed to show he has a pulse, so if I were a Dem, I'd be somewhat excited. However, the global test for pre-emptive war has to be the biggest gaffee in modern political history. Expect Cheney to hammer this point on Tues and it should be in EVERY political done by the RNC from now until the election.
I didn't think this was a great debate or you could see clear differences between these two men. I mean that gives Kerry too much credit. Bush has a position on Iraq. Kerry doesn't. I would use a football analogy to describe tonight's debate, Bush played a field position game and punted a lot, where Kerry did drive into Bush's territory but I thought he came away with a goose egg every time.
Not this one. Bush was Bush. Rarely a slickster in debate, but right on the issues, clear on his principles and values and strong in leadership.
Since Kerry exceeded expectations,
Not mine. He was a long winded flip flopper who doesn't trust in America. Same as always.
it seems to me that the media will (and is) trumpet this to the masses.
Well, duh. That's been the operational plan since the primaries.
That's where the real effect will be felt.
Yeppers, that's the conservatives burden. Spot the left 10 points for MSM cheerleading. Fortunately there are new fact checkers in town and the MSM's power is diminishing.
Lando
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