Debate tonight

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Debate tonight
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Thu, 09-30-2004 - 10:54pm
So, what did everybody think? This debate was my first (missed last yr's) and I enjoyed it. I liked how they were both respectful to each other and professional. No sighing, making facial expressions, slouching etc. I can't wait for the vp debates. :) XOXO.

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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 9:55am

Hi tx_blondie!


Welcome to the board!

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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 9:57am
AGREED!

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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:06am
<<"What are you saying to me? Directly. Without the insinuation. Spit it out. Or shut up.">>... WOW... why thánk you for the ever so friendly invite! I will be as direct as I always tend to be. Please read:

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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:06am

Exactly!

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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:06am
Hi, glad to be here amongst such wonderful conservatives such as yourself :) BTW, your daughter is gorgeous, I saw her pictures on your website. I'm due to deliver my daughter in about 4 weeks :)
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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:08am

Hi kelmo245!


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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:11am
Oh....Renee....are you a little upset because he made your candidate look like an idiot? Your president got everything he wanted in the negotiations (flashing lights, no follow-ups,no direct questions between the two of them,foreign policy first,etc..etc) and he still LOST! Kerry gave him EVERYTHING he wanted and Bush still lost. Everyone agreed that the format and everything favored Bush AND HE STILL LOST!!! Yet, you come on this board and make up excuses for that pathetic excuse for a man. For goodness sake, he could not even stand up straight!
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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:11am

Thanks, and congrats to you!

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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:15am
Will see how I feel later. I'm reading the transcript before viewing the tape tonight. I would still say at this point Kerry won on presentation, but lost on policy (maybe substance wasn't quite the right word to use). It's what they said that matters, not how they said it.

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Also, Leher could have done a better job of asking questions.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/30/223850.shtml

Lehrer Stacks Deck Against Bush

Presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer showed once again Thursday night why top aides to President Clinton used to call him "our moderator" when presidential debate time rolled around in 1996.

The questions, which Lehrer announced at the outset had been authored exclusively by him, were supposed to help the American people determine which candidate would be a better steward of U.S. national security in a post-9/11 world.

But there were no queries to Sen. Kerry about his long Senate record of voting against defense appropriations, or his sponsorship of a bill to cut CIA funding by $6 billion a year after terrorists struck the World Trade Center in 1993, or Kerry's support of the nuclear freeze movement during the height of the Cold War.

Kerry wasn't asked why he teamed up with Jane Fonda to protest the Vietnam War while his band of brothers were still on the battlefield, or why he met with enemy leaders in Paris, or why he accused fellow soldiers of being "monsters" and "war criminals."

Most Americans would consider the answers to those questions extremely relevant to the selection of any U.S. commander in chief during a time of war.

But not Jim Lehrer. Instead, he focused on Iraq with question after question that suggested Bush had blown it.

Here's a sampling:

"You said there was a miscalculation in Iraq," Lehrer asked the president. "What was it and how did it happen?"

"What colossal misjudgments, in your opinion," Lehrer asked Kerry, "has President Bush made in these areas ?"

To Bush: "Mr. President, has Iraq been worth the cost in American lives -10,052 - I mean 1,052 up to today?"

To Kerry: "You've repeatedly accused President Bush of lying to the American people on Iraq. Give us some examples of the president being untruthful on Iraq."

Despite his focus on Iraq, however, Lehrer never asked why Kerry voted to authorize the war, then turned around and voted against the legislation to fund it. Or why he voted against authorization for the first Gulf War, even though President Bush's father had amassed just the kind of coalition Kerry says the U.S. needs now.

Likewise, the PBS host declined to ask Kerry about comments in recent days from French and German officials who announced they have no intention of sending troops to Iraq, even if Kerry is elected.

That's quite a stunning development, given that Kerry's Iraq policy rests almost solely on the promise that he'll persuade Old Europe to pitch in and take some of the load off U.S. forces.

But not stunning enough, apparently, to interest Mr. Lehrer.







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Fri, 10-01-2004 - 10:37am
Who would have been your choice for moderator? If you could pick anyone that you feel is truly unbiased? Just curious......I honestly didn't know Jim Lehrer was considered liberal.

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