Friday, October 01, 2004
Matty's musing on the debate
I've been nagging Matty to write up a piece for the blog for quite some time now....and last night he finally relented. Here are his thoughts on last night's Presidential debate:
If tonight's debate had been a championship fight, Jim Lehrer would have stopped it at around 9:25 p.m. John Kerry's rhetorical shock and awe of blunt one-liners stunned the President and, at times, caused him to lose his temper.
Here are just a few of the shots Kerry leveled at Bush:
Bush ''outsourced'' the mission to capture Bin Laden at Tora Bora to warlords.
hinting that Bush was a flip-flopper by going to the UN after saying he wouldn't do it. Kerry said he only went after suggestions from Scowcroft and Baker, etc.
Three strong points on how ''successful'' we have been in Afghanistan - 1. Resurgence of Opium trade; 2. three postponed elections; 3. More US deaths in 2003 in Afghanistan than in 2002.
''Iraq was not the center of the war on terror before (Bush) invaded it.''
Kerry said W went to Iraq to divert from hunt for Osama.
''It was more important for Bush to give us a tax cut than to invest in Homeland Security.'' - Kerry said Bush found money for cops/firefighters in Iraq but not in America.
Kerry cited W's father's book where it explained why he didn't go to Baghdad because we would be occupiers and would have no exit strategy.
Kerry mentioned would only guarded the Oil Ministry in Iraq.
''I made a mistake in talking about Iraq and he made a mistake going to war.''
''I've worked with these world leaders longer than he has.''
The President had a couple of gaffes that I haven't heard much on TV. He said the people in Iraq were fighting vociferously. They're loud?
He also referred to a ''pre-Sept. 10th'' thinking on Kerry's part. How could have not remembered that date?
W made a total of 18 inexplicable facial expressions when he was either mad or confused.
In short, Kerry won in a rout. Will it help him win? Well, we will see. Kerry at least joined the fight after, in my opinion, vanishing for a few weeks.
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If tonight's debate had been a championship fight, Jim Lehrer would have stopped it at around 9:25 p.m. John Kerry's rhetorical shock and awe of blunt one-liners stunned the President and, at times, caused him to lose his temper.
Here are just a few of the shots Kerry leveled at Bush:
Bush ''outsourced'' the mission to capture Bin Laden at Tora Bora to warlords.
hinting that Bush was a flip-flopper by going to the UN after saying he wouldn't do it. Kerry said he only went after suggestions from Scowcroft and Baker, etc.
Three strong points on how ''successful'' we have been in Afghanistan - 1. Resurgence of Opium trade; 2. three postponed elections; 3. More US deaths in 2003 in Afghanistan than in 2002.
''Iraq was not the center of the war on terror before (Bush) invaded it.''
Kerry said W went to Iraq to divert from hunt for Osama.
''It was more important for Bush to give us a tax cut than to invest in Homeland Security.'' - Kerry said Bush found money for cops/firefighters in Iraq but not in America.
Kerry cited W's father's book where it explained why he didn't go to Baghdad because we would be occupiers and would have no exit strategy.
Kerry mentioned would only guarded the Oil Ministry in Iraq.
''I made a mistake in talking about Iraq and he made a mistake going to war.''
''I've worked with these world leaders longer than he has.''
The President had a couple of gaffes that I haven't heard much on TV. He said the people in Iraq were fighting vociferously. They're loud?
He also referred to a ''pre-Sept. 10th'' thinking on Kerry's part. How could have not remembered that date?
W made a total of 18 inexplicable facial expressions when he was either mad or confused.
In short, Kerry won in a rout. Will it help him win? Well, we will see. Kerry at least joined the fight after, in my opinion, vanishing for a few weeks.
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