The DebateIt will be blogged to death within moments, but I wanted to say that I thought it went very well. Kerry was vastly better than Bush in terms of debating—his answers were substantive, clear and concise, and Bush spent pretty much the whole night on the defensive, often falling back on talking points that were at best irrelevant and made him look defensive. I expected Bush to win this one, and I think it was a clear victory for Kerry. Some CBS commentator opined at the end that Bush’s best moment came when he said he would fight the terrorists abroad so we didn’t have to fight them at home. While that will probably resonate with a lot of people, to me it underscores the foolishness of Bush’s approach to the “war on terror”: the apparent assumption that there is a finite number of terrorists, and that they are somehow all being magically drawn to Iraq like moths to a flame.
Postscript: John McCain, who is on CBS now, appears as if he is being physically torn apart by the strain of having to support the president.
It will be blogged to death within moments, but I wanted to say that I thought it went very well. Kerry was vastly better than Bush in terms of debating—his answers were substantive, clear and concise, and Bush spent pretty much the whole night on the defensive, often falling back on talking points that were at best irrelevant and made him look defensive. I expected Bush to win this one, and I think it was a clear victory for Kerry. Some CBS commentator opined at the end that Bush’s best moment came when he said he would fight the terrorists abroad so we didn’t have to fight them at home. While that will probably resonate with a lot of people, to me it underscores the foolishness of Bush’s approach to the “war on terror”: the apparent assumption that there is a finite number of terrorists, and that they are somehow all being magically drawn to Iraq like moths to a flame.
Postscript: John McCain, who is on CBS now, appears as if he is being physically torn apart by the strain of having to support the president.
