I feel very let down. The man did not prepare. He thought he would just skate through this, even though everyone told him that it was going to be tough!
Shame on him. This is very important. We can not have Kerry in charge. Bush needs to work harder. Bone up on his Kerry facts, and humble himself. Pride got him flustered. He needed to work on this. This type of thing is hard for him and he knows it. He should have had a coach and worked hard.
Bush has been preparing for debates for two months.
How many Presidential debates have you watched?
The President had constant message tonight, Kerry is the one who wanted to look like the smartest student. I sincerely believe if you can write "shame" on the man who stood on the rubble in 2001, then you have serious issues with why you support the candidate. You don't suddenly become a great debator when it's all your opponent has done for 20 years. No amount of coaching in weeks is going to prepare you for that. Bush is a delegator as President. He listens, considers, makes decisions and gives people the authority to carry them out. The reason people like Bush is because he's not Joe Debator with a pat answer for everything. He's real and that's what counts.
So it's President Bush's fault that Kerry lied thru his teeth the entire night. Except of course, when he wanted us to stop building bunker busters, and he wanted the global community to determine our safety.
I disagree with you--our President was prepared and followed the rules of the debate. He was not slick enough to segue into the upcoming question like "the opponent" did.
If the questions were known to the moderator only, then how did Kerry slip some unknown troubled spot somewhere in Africa in the answer proceeding the question from the moderator?