Posted on 10/13/2004 5:19:44 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
45 minutes to go. If there is already a live debate thread go ahead and delete this.
I understand posting a live thread has become a somewhat of a political ordeal here, when it shouldn't be. So to take the pressure off, I'm posting this anyway. Do I dare? LOL!
Kerry is playing a race card.
Red light!
Yeah, Kerry likes to hunt for smelly cheese in France.
weak answer by Bush on assult weapons, could have gone further with 2nd amendment..too bad he didn't have 30 seconds (thanks Bob) to say that the terrorists on 9/11 didn't use assult weapons but box-cutters.
Well I'm a Lady (well sometimes not always)and I loved President Bush in debate 2....
Stumbling!
It was within the first 15 minutes, I believe.
SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, let's get back to economic issues. But let's shift to some other questions here.
Both of you are opposed to gay marriage. But to understand how you have come to that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic question. Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?
BUSH: You know, Bob, I don't know. I just don't know. I do know that we have a choice to make in America and that is to treat people with tolerance and respect and dignity. It's important that we do that.
And I also know in a free society people, consenting adults can live the way they want to live.
BUSH: And that's to be honored.
But as we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change -- or have to change -- our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.
I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage, and the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution.
It has also the benefit of allowing citizens to participate in the process. After all, when you amend the Constitution, state legislatures must participate in the ratification of the Constitution.
I'm deeply concerned that judges are making those decisions and not the citizenry of the United States. You know, Congress passed a law called DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act.
BUSH: My opponent was against it. It basically protected states from the action of one state to another. It also defined marriage as between a man and woman.
But I'm concerned that that will get overturned. And if it gets overturned, then we'll end up with marriage being defined by courts, and I don't think that's in our nation's interests.
SCHIEFFER: Senator Kerry?
KERRY: We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as.
I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice. I've met people who struggled with this for years, people who were in a marriage because they were living a sort of convention, and they struggled with it.
And I've met wives who are supportive of their husbands or vice versa when they finally sort of broke out and allowed themselves to live who they were, who they felt God had made them...
sKerry is playing the old RACE CARD
Kerry calling Bush a racist. Shameful!!!!!!!
Is it my imagination, or is Kerry getting more time and chances to answer?
AK47 on the bed. Good G_d! there are other "regular" guns too. Any body that would take your AK would take your starter pistol.
Kerry's race-baiting right now...
Kerry: we haven't come far enough....we've made progress - I wan't to say that at the same time...
Yeah- that's right sKerry - you always take both sides of every issue.
Had to turn the channel...ALL of the talking is in that skerry voice!
If we were to do a minute/minute count of the time each candidate spent at the mic, whadda' you suppose would be the count?
Well it was one thing for a draft dodging adulterous socialist and his ice-cold boss to rule the country for eight years. It's quite another for an admitted baby-killing war criminal/commie-loving traitor to. Yes. Kerry IS more dangerous.
I still don't know ONE person that voted for Clinton. I fear the voter fraud factor may once again elect a socialist (communist w/a smiley face) as our President. We have been overrun by socialists and thugs and let's face it.....they don't need no stinkin rules or laws to abide by. That's for everyone ELSE (you and I) to live under. Not the 'special people'.
"The most passionate Kerry has been all night was when he's talking about taking away guns!
Good on our side."
You are right! and he acted as if AK's are EVIL.
Dosent Kerry own a chineses AK?
I am not an American. I am not black or asian, or a person of 'colour'. I'm in Ireland, and I'm a woman.
And I think, as a woman, if I had to rely on 'affirmative action' to get me a job - I'd be pretty pissed off.
I stand on MY merits.
This guy is the worst moderator yet!
Kerry's invoking the NAACP...playing the Race Card again!
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