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October 14, 2004
Final Debate Thoughts
Well, I’m glad that’s all over. That being the debate season. I found myself actually nodding off as we reached the two-thirds mark of the broadcast because both candidates kept falling back on obfuscation and hurling the same tired remarks we’ve already hear in the previous debates.
The amount of reality twisting has reached new heights of absurdity, especially in an age when web sites explode the misinformation within minutes. Of course, the majority of Americans don’t bother to fact check the candidates nor do they read the newspapers the morning after for the reality check. They tend to believe what they hear so if they like hearing that Kerry is a tax and spend liberal, they’ll vote for Bush or if they like hearing Bush is a clueless warmonger, they’ll hang a chad for Kerry.
With that said, I want to compliment Bob Shieffer for asking some very good, some nicely pointed questions. He ran the debate quite well and I was pleased. On the other hand, he entirely avoided the environment, which is just as important as the economy. And just as he asked Kerry how he would pay for the medical plan, I would have liked to hear Shieffer nail Bush on how to pay for his proposed Mars plan – something the President announced once and has chosen never to mention again.
Kerry looked good, formal, but stiff. When he smiled at the end, it didn’t look right. Bush sounded whiny in the first half and only in total command and Presidential during his closing two minutes, since after all, he got to rehearse that part.
Best part for Deb and me was out ability to watch the debates while our picture-in-picture TV allowed us to keep tabs on the Cardinals-Astros game including the decisive sixth inning.
Let Bush and Kerry thrash each other with the same tired remarks for the next few weeks, next Wednesday we can get back to good old scripted politics as The West Wing returns.
Posted by Bob Greenberger at October 14, 2004 11:48 AM
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Don't let him fool you, he can fall asleep any time, any where. It wasn't because the debate was repetitive.
Posted by: debgrnbrgr at October 14, 2004 12:55 PM