Posted on 10/03/2004 6:13:37 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
What's a little confusing, though, is that if you watch Bush instead of Kerry, he appears to be unfolding something at the podium. It doesn't look like he took it out of his pocket, but it's more than just resting his hands on the lectern...
This is Kerry. This is the way he thinks. Look at his liberal record. He is pandering to the U.N and his left-wing base. A Zebra cannot change his stripes.
It looked to me that Bush was fiddling with the note pad and pencils on the podium. Bush didn't take anything from his pocket that I could tell. Most of the time Bush was just standing there looking around and fidgeting.
I am very relaxed, but I will never quit questing what John Kerry does, because he will be held accountable for everything he has ever done , and that includes what he did to the Vietnam Vets.
Just registered today, did you?
You're right--he clearly didn't take anything from his pocket. Whatever he was doing, it was with something already on the lectern. With Kerry, I waver back and forth; I positively flip-flop! I think it's a folded sheet of paper on the slower motion clip, but on the real-time clip, it looks like a pen. Still, a right-handed person doesn't take a pen out of his right pocket with his left hand and manipulate it...even if he took it out of a right pocket, he would switch hands to manipulate it.
The thought of ever having to hear the words "President Kerry" nauseates me.
This isn't surprising. As a prosecutor in trial, I routinely reduced entire closing arguments to notecard-size outlines. If Kerry smuggled in such as outline, it is easy to understand how he mixed his reported well-crafted extemporaneous remarks in with his dopey Kyoto/summit/global test/etc unscripted nonsense. No wonder he seemed lucid one moment and deranged the next.
"Most of the time Bush was just standing there looking around and fidgeting."
Probably trying very hard to resist the very valid urge to run full steam at sKerry the 4 or so paces and clothesline him off of the podium.
I didn't SEE the debate. I only HEARD it and from what I "heard" Bush kicked sKerry's A$$ with content and all I heard from sKerry was lies and insults. I mean sKerry did everything BUT call President Bush a Big Doo Doo Head! Hard to contain your anger when you are attacked from both your candidate AND the moderator.
You sure can see Kerry unfolding a paper and placing it on his podium, but to really understand the cheating Kerry drama, you have to watch the whole video clip that shows how smoothly he reaches in and takes the paper from the inside pocket in his jacket as his back is turned to the audience and gently glides it out, smiling all the way.
No we all remember when Kerry was speaking, Bush was annoyed and was not looking at any talking points, like Kerry seems to be doing.
That is the best link yet to the video.
Kerry's mike is proper height.
I know some say no big deal, but this makes me madder than Zell!
The Bush campaign agreed to Lehrer. His "misbehavior" should have been no suprise to the Bush team, so any post-debate complaint on Lehrer shouldn't get much mileage. It's just like the dems complaining about the butterfly ballot, which they had approved prior to the voting in the 2000 election. It's sour grapes. Bad judgement calls will rightly affect a campaign. Part of running a good campaign is avoiding bad decisions in the first place.
Were all those factual errors he made carefully written on notecards?
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