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[Sasha Akhavi <sasha.akhavi AT alumni.brown.edu>]

It wasn't style that tripped Bush up tonight; it was substance.  This 
was the most issues-focused debate I have seen in a presidential 
election - no outstanding quips, no distracting jabs, just 90 minutes 
of Jim Lehrer and John Kerry confronting George Bush about his 
policies in Iraq, and George Bush faltering in response.

3) big things came out of this debate for me: 1) Kerry seemed more 
presidential - more mature, more resolute, more intelligent and less 
whiny - than the President and had the opportunity to recast the 
"flip-flopping" characterization Bush has tried to level at him; 2) 
Bush was shown up as valuing certainty above rectitude, in the face 
of all evidence;  3) Kerry reestablished his credentials as a 
military leader, and a more circumspect one than the President has 
been.  I'm as biased as they come too, but his respect for the people 
doing the fighting, and his pledge that their endagerment would be 
his last resort, was inescapably more sincere than Bush's.

... and after sending out this highly partisan message, I'm going to 
be gone for the weekend, so I won't be around to continue the 
discussion til Monday.  See y'all then -SA

> /me has no cable. :'(
>
> but i have to say, damn, i thought bush was supposed to be a great
> debater (resisting saying hes a master debater) and had never lost a
> debate in his life, but he messed that all up.
>
> Now, I'm about as biased as they come, but I'm not above calling
> someone out of he messed things up. There were a few times when I
> wanted to reach out and smack Kerry up side the head, but I was too
> distracted by Bush blinking all the time...or pausing in....the
> middle........
>
> ...
>
>
> ...
>
>
> of a sentence to compose himself...
>
> my $0.02
> ian
>
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> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:09:20 -0400, Thomas <thomas AT tbeckett.com> wrote:
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