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Originally posted by bilmore
Does anyone else think that, with ten minutes of consideration, they could have come up with questions that might actually get some sparks going here?
This is fairly lame and boring. Maybe CBS is scared to death at this point to come across wrong.
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Huh. I thought the moderator was from ABC.
Anyway, I didn't think the questions themselves were so bad. It's just that the candidates refused to answer the damn things, and the format prevented anyone from forcing them to do so.
My own impression is that it was a draw. Neither blew it in his performance, though overall I think that helps Kerry, as it doesn't really change the overall dynamic of the race.
- The Soprano line wasn't bad, and I'm just glad that Kerry finally chose to use something like that. I've been screaming at the TV for the last debate and a half that he can't just let go unanswered GWB's declarations that Kerry's not "credible" on fiscal policy. Veto a goddamn spending bill over the most recent 4 years, Mr. President, and maybe people will listen to you about credibility on fiscal policy. Until then, can you find no better response?
- "Freedom is a gift from God" will send every evangelical in America to the polls. I had no idea that they were all neocons, but whatever. (In some corners it will have people talking about a Crusade again, and that's one reason I wish he wouldn't say shit like this.) I don't care if it is a gift from God; it's tactically foolish to declare it so, and in any event GWB's tendency to wear his religiosity so publicly makes me uncomfortable.
- Points to Kerry on SocSec. Bush never did say where he'd get that Trillion Dollars while robbing the fund to give young workers Vegas money AND retirees full benefits.
- Points to Bush on The Court (dammit). Kerry should've hit harder on Bush's studied ambivalence, and instead Kerry got painted as the only one with a litmus test.
- "The borders are safer now then when I was govenor of Texas" was my favorite unintentionally funny line.
- Kerry's bit about marrying up was OK (and I note with some surprise NotMe's sympathies for THK after essentially yelling for months that the woman's just a rich cunt), though I think it was borderline clunky. Bush's line was better, though, FWIW.
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