[sinkspur]

Thinking on your feet doesn't mean the ability to blather.

Thinking on your feet DOES mean answering your opponent. He missed a great chance when Kerry started talking about 9/11. Bush should have gotten in his face: "Senator, you don't need to tell me about 9/11. I was there on 9/11. I responded to 9/11." Instead, Bush never mentioned 9/11, one of the major remembrances of the entire country.

Also, why didn't he come back to Kerry's suggestion of giving nuclear fuel to Iran with "Senator, Clinton gave nuclear fuel to North Korea. Look where they are. You want to make the same mistake with Iran?"

Bush speaks in simple declarative sentences, and could have nailed Kerry to the wall several times.

[RandallFlagg]

One of Registered's classics.

[sitetest]

Dear sinkspur,

Thinking on your feet means being able to accurately assess incoming information and create a plan to meet the circumstances. What you're talking about is being "quick-witted," being a gifted extemporaneous debater.

I know folks who are one and not the other, and vice versa.

Whatever we know about President Bush, we know that he is not a gifted extemporaneous debater. But I think September 11 proves he can think well on his feet.

Bottom line, though, if someone can provide a video where M. Kerry clearly takes a paper out of his inside breast pocket, it hurts him. How much? I don't know. I'm sure seeBS and the others will all try to spin it. But it hurts, nonetheless.


sitetest

[RandallFlagg]

He missed a great chance when Kerry started talking about 9/11. Bush should have gotten in his face: "Senator, you don't need to tell me about 9/11. I was there on 9/11. I responded to 9/11." Instead, Bush never mentioned 9/11, one of the major remembrances of the entire country.

Actually, he did.


LEHRER: Mr. President, you have a 90-second rebuttal.

BUSH: I, too, thank the University of Miami, and say our prayers are with the good people of this state, who've suffered a lot.

September the 11th changed how America must look at the world. And since that day, our nation has been on a multi-pronged strategy to keep our country safer.