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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 - In a strikingly personal and bitter debate, Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's record on Iraq on Tuesday night as "exactly the right thing to do'' and asserted that Senators John Kerry and John Edwards bent with the political winds on national security. Mr. Edwards fired back with a wide-ranging assault on the administration's honesty and competence in foreign and domestic policy. "One thing that's very clear is that a long résumé does not equal good judgment," Mr. Edwards declared, in one of many sharp exchanges that spoke to the closeness of the race...

Some are reporting in other threads that Kerry removed an earpiece after the debate, anyone out there that taped the debate please review and post. Also, some have suggested that it appears that the movement of Kerry with the object he removed may have been a text imaging device. Lets look for this too.

Get past the bluster and bile, and the two products of privilege who each want to be the next President aren't all that different. How sad Last night was Debate Night USA. Perhaps you tuned in. But what did America really see after months of endless campaigning, hundreds of millions of dollars lavished on attack ads, and enough cheap talk (as my mama used to say) to drive any sane citizen off the nearest bridge? You don't agree? Let's look at the Tale of the Presidential Tape. Bush is 58. Kerry is 61. Both went to New England prep schools...

Debating the topic thought to be Bush's strength, foreign policy, the senator did more than hold his ground. Will it matter? After slip-sliding through the late summer of Campaign '04, John Kerry finally regained solid footing in the first Presidential debate. In the Sept. 30 foreign policy clash at the University of Miami, the Massachusetts senator scored some points with his repeated attacks on President Bush's Iraq policy and played pretty good defense when it came to explaining his various positions on the invasion and its aftermath. Kerry's solid performance is unlikely to move him into the lead, but it...