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Re: Who won the U.S. Presidential Debate? (Sept. 30)

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Originally Posted by Jack Jones
Bush almost never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Kerry rolled his eyes when he realized that, immediately after the 10:1 remark, he contradicted himself by saying we didn’t send enough troops into Iraq.
Kerry said that we did not send enough troops into Iraq to get the job done, but who says he would have gone into Iraq anyways, at least not until we were through with Afghanistan, and Iraq posed a serious threat.

Oh, and I'd just like to point out a history-anecdote for you all. The same exact thing happened after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, where Austria-Hungary told its citizens that Serbia had sponsored terrorism, (despite all the facts saying otherwise) and used that to invade Serbia. This invasion of Serbia, then, triggered what we call World War I.

And there is a term that Bush continues to use in this debate and in his RNC speech that really, really scares me, and that's "the broader middle east." He's not talking about just Iraq, this could include expansion into Iran and other nations, which would really spell trouble. Not to mention a draft would be needed, and I'd be in said draft.

Back to the point, Kerry won hands down. Bush paused and stuttered, and what someone said earlier about not having good skills in a debate doesn't affect a president's ability to lead. Contrary to that, however, I think it most certainly does, for this shows that he cannot think on his feet without his advisors nearby, and we need a president who can make the right decisions in good enough time to be effective, and Bush just doesn't show that. And whenever Bush asked for an extra 30 seconds of rebuttal, he couldn't think of anything, or just repeated the same old rhetoric, too.

Kerry, however, missed a couple of chances to pin Bush down, so to speak. The most noteworthy of these times was at the last question before closing arguments, where Bush had his 30 second rebuttal. The question concerned nuclear proliferation and North Korea, but Bush switched to talking about Hussein, completely skipping the point of the argument. I think Kerry should have called him on the spot right there, pointing that this shows the narrow-minded personal agenda of Bush.
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