Posted on 10/13/2004 9:23:03 PM PDT by SquirrelKing
INSTANT DEBATE REACTION
1) Bob Schieffer is a terrible moderator: The questions are so much worse and so much more pompous than those from audience members last week. That lame-o "poverty" question is a classic: It's fair enough to talk about poverty, but the assumption that the way to lessen poverty is to increase the minimum wage is reflexive leftie laziness.
2) "Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?" Do you believe choosing dumb questions is a choice or socially conditioned by 73 years in the CBS newsroom?
3) I'm beginning to reckon this weird obsession by Kerry-Edwards on bringing up Dick Cheney's gay daughter every time can't be anything other than a covert pitch for the bigot vote. You can almost feel their frustration that it's a cute looking lesbian and not some queeny guy. Leave other people's kids out of it. Bush doesn't bring up Kerry's daughter wearing a see-through dress to the Cannes Film Festival and oilily profess how much he admires they way they still love her even though she showed her breasts to the entire world.
4) I'm kinda debated out. Has either side got anything it really wants to debate with the other? On most issues, we've nothing to say. On others - illegal immigration - both sides are full of it. If we're going to have stilted fake contests, the third round should have been WWF.
5) Kerry: "That's how you gain legitimacy with your own country people." Country people? Friends, Romans, country people, lend me your tin ears.
6) Bob Schieffer: "The three of us are all married to strong women." Maybe next time yours could moderate the debate.
7) Memo to Kerry: When you're asked about your wife, don't talk about your mother. And isn't there something weird about your mother on her deathbed feeling the need to remind you about integrity?
VERDICT: BUSH: If he'd been like this in the first debate, we'd be in 42-state blowout territory.
Ping.
Take a glass of wine with ya! Celebrate!
Exactly.
There are many other points with which I agree with Steyn on here, but this is the only one for which I had a photo, and I'm too tired to talk about the rest.
Say goodnight dead. Goodnight dead.
OMG. You gotta be kidding me. He didn't do that did he?
That's about as sick as Kerry's daughter discussing how much she knows about every inch of her dad's 6'4" body.
What is wrong with these people? I know the über-rich try to keep their bloodlines pure but these people are taking things a little too far.
Yes but he needs all that integrity to make Christopher Reeve walk again.
He nailed it!! LOL.
"That's how you gain legitimacy with your own country people."
Even though I want Kerry to lose really badly, I have to admit that I cringed when I heard that. This is what happens when your brain gets warped by the PC-police. Good Lord, man - say "countrymen" or at least "fellow citizens." Country people? Jeez.
Not kidding. He talked about her last three words to him on her deathbed: "integrity, integrity, integrity" (her last attempt to cure his big flaw!)
He never said he loved his wife, just made a couple of jokes about marrying up, and he moreso than the others, but "(heh heh)" he "can handle it"!
Made it obvious she is a human ATM to him, after the President had just made the most beautiful and loving tribute to Laura and the girls. Skerrymouche is such a feckless cretin.
Thank you, MS! Was at first relieved--then actually buoyed. Now that the "debates" are over, we can get away from perceptions and back to issues.
That's the greatest picture I've ever seen. With that I am off to a shake a tower a get a glass of wine.
Amen. Mark Steyn is right about one thing though: If the Bush we saw tonight had showed up the first time, it would have been a 42 state blowout election. Too bad he had to save best for last.
OMG. You gotta be kidding me. He didn't do that did he?
OMG, we're not kidding you. His only comment about Terayza was that he had 'married up', a comment clearly refering to her wealth. She was visibily NOT amused by the joke.
After that brief snippet, he spent the rest of the time on some odd story about his mother reminding him about integrity on her deathbed.
I was literally cringing in my seat as he answered. It was such a terrible answer I felt genuine pity for him.
This that through. He is LIAR! No one ever said that on their deathbed. She might have said "Son, I love you" or "Please, be good." But "Integrity Integrity Intergity"??????
If the American people elect this pandering liar we deserve what happens as a result.
I had a near death experience(heart attack) ...had I died my last words would have been "Im going out" My mother died and her last words wer "I love you" Im suprised Kerry's mother didnt say "Plan,plan plan..."
Absolutely.
And all this time she thought he loved her for her brain.
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