I listened to parts of it on the radio and was encouraged by a few questions (not like the night Jim Lehrer came out shilling for the DNC)...The President was much more upbeat and it helped contrast the 2 candidates. Bush made his points, repeated them and drove them home...Kerry really acted the arrogant snob especially in 2 separate questions on morality: the stem cell and the abortion question. His first response was to state he respected their beliefs, but them seem to trample them down, belittling morals and faith as if only for the simple-minded.
History will NOT parse over the questions of WMD possession down the road as it will address whether freeing Iraq from a brutal dictator was a positive transformation for the Iraqi people and a more secure region...Shouldn't THAT really be the TARGET point for discussion? I did feel that the questions were broad, straightforward, and generally, well thought out and chosen...
And I keep wondering how many WMD's do we need to find before people begin to acknowledge that there have been WMD's found. I would have thought that one would have been enough, I mean it would only take one in a terrorist hands (properly deployed), in a major Western city to kill 10's of thousands.
I say properly deployed because one in Iraq was used against US troops but because it was not properly deployed it did no killing.
Paint me confused.