He knows Iraq and the war on terror cold. Instead of just relaxing and presenting what he clearly knows, he's been told by Rove and Hughes that he's got to repeat certain things and not be too aggressive or he'll turn off the women.
So, instead of knocking Kerry out with a couple of well-placed lines, he's repeating all the talking points, sometimes to an extreme (he said "it's hard work" fifteen times).
I love Bush and continue to work for him. But he's now going to be on Kerry's turf with domestic issues for the next two debates.
He missed a huge opportunity on Thursday. I simply couldn't believe it was happening.
yup yup yup, agreed 100%
Democracy Corps Poll has Bush up by two points.
http://www.democracycorps.com/reports/surveys/Democracy_Corps_September_30_2004_1st_Debate_Survey.pdf
What if the poll is nothing but propaganda? Like the Harris poll at the start of Sept that claimed "Bush's convention bounch is gone"? Funny how the bad new for Bush polls are treated as gospel by a certain sect of Freepers and the ones that show bad new for Kerry are "suspicous" Why is that?
You don't think there will be any foreign policy questions from the next debate, in town hall format? I do.
Like abortion? cloning? homosexual marriage?