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This was posted over at rotharmy.com by "Sgt. Schultz" who is usually an unrepentant defender of Junior and his policies. Most of the Busheep on that board are mindnumbingly trying to spin the debate to Junior, so needless to say I was shocked to read this.........
Sgt Schultz is always going to be honest with you.
John Kerry totally kicked Bush's butt last night. No question about it. Up until last night I felt pretty sure that Bush would win the election. After the debate I now think Kerry has a good chance of winning.
Some random points to consider.
1. All night Bush has a pissed off, annoyed look on his face. To me and I think other voters, this said "I really don't want to be here and endure questions" - i know what others are saying - that Leher didn't ask Kerry about his Senate record or antiwar activites but come on - this is a debate about being President and it is fair to question the sitting President about his foreign policy and the war in Iraq. He owes us answers, as any sitting President does, and to just repeat tiny sound bytes of crap isn't going to cut it. He has to do better than this - way better.
2. All night Bush kept saying the SAME THING - "We're doing good work", "It's a tough job" - you know what I say - bullshit - we, the American people are OWED more of an answer than that. If there is more of an answer than give it to us. If i was on Bush's staff I'd be kicking him in the pants today. Totally piss-poor answers.
3. Kerry sounded much more intelligent and lucid than Bush. Bush often went over his time allotment and then when Bush would storongly aslk for 30 more seconds - he'd just hemm and haw and spout the same crap - if you are going to ask for 30 more seconds then SAY SOMETHING. Good God.
4. For anyone who was listening, I think that Kerry DID explain his position on Iraq very clearly. If you don't understand, you aren;t listening. And Bush's response - the same. Yikes.
The feeling of diappointment may pass, and I'm sure Kerry will go out and say something dumb to make me feel better about last night but as it stands now, the bush campaign had better be worrying.
Now, honestly I don't see this guy voting for Kerry, but other Republicans and certainly some of the Bush-leaning undecideds had to have seen the same things Schultz did.
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