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On Oct 1, 2004, at 1:00 AM, Sasha Akhavi wrote:

> 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.