Am I the only one who thinks it was tie or a slight win for Bush? Bush succeeded (with help of Jim Lehrer) at talking about what Kerry said before the start of the war. Why didn't Kerry bring up the current situation more? Nothing on today's bombings, nothing on the beheading and kidnappings. He mentioned once that there were more soldiers killed in July than June, more in August than July, etc.
Bush also succeeded in questioning Kerry's consistency, while Kerry was talking more about Bin Laden > Osama.
Anyway, the post-spin debate will be this. Kerry said the cost for Iraq are $200 billion, but it is only $119 billion. Bush said that we have 100,000 trained Iraqis though in reality it's only 50,000. This boring was really repetivie, worse than the 2000. 2000 highlight's was Gore sighing all the time, this had no highlights at all.
I also have a picture in the "spin-room" off C-Span 2 of John McCain. Heavily sweating and part of his face is red and swollen.. he was getting all agitated and pissed at the reporters. Wesley Clark looking very solid I have to say. Karen Hughes wants to murder one of Kerry's family members. Gen. Franks is making small talk, he won't spin for Bush.
Giuliania's wife's a MILF
Best line of the night... Bush: "You forgot Poland."
Nah, seriously he was very, very on message. Which makes him the winner for me. Keeps hammering the same point which is how an incumbent wins.
Here's the schedule for the debates by the way:
Sept. 30, Florida: Foreign Policy (Jim Lehrer; PBS)
Oct. 5, Vice-Presidential Debate (Gwen Ifil; PBS)
Oct. 8, Missouri: town-meeting w/ undecided voters (Charles Gibson; ABC)
Oct. 13, Arizona: domestic (Bob Schieffer, CBS)
I'll probably have more to say on this later on so expect for more rants