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Hagrid Draw it is
Unbeknownst to Kerry adviser Mike McCurry, a C-SPAN camera quietly followed McCurry as he found Kerry adviser Joe Lockhart on Spin Alley floor and asked him his impression of the debate. Lockhart candidly said to McCurry , ?“The consensus is it was a draw.?”
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Not To Worry, What Else Can They
say but he won ,not likely!!
The debates are the last straw for this critter, the only way he could still win is if Mr. Bush were struck by lightning at the podium and incinerated! The liberals would then for the first time in their life praise GOD and not Darwin!
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Bush didn't lose
he worked all day and was most likely drainded listening to the people of Florida tell their stories of loss.
John Kerry, however, had a nice nap, probably a touch up of his pumpkin colored face and has never worked a day in his life!
By Granny
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KERRY DIDN'T GET IT DONE
ON the day of the most important debate in their political lives, President Bush was in shirt sleeves consoling Florida hurricane victims, patting some on the back, hugging others and shaking hands with the tired relief workers. John Kerry had a manicure.
If ever there was a metaphor for the difference between these two candidates and their respective relationships with the American people, it was this. As The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes put Kerry's problem so succinctly last night, ''This is a man who really needs to go bowling.''
For all the back and forth between the two men, the debate did nothing to change that reality. Kerry's pontifical performance was light on specifics, heavy on criticism and plagued by the inconsistencies that have characterized his positions on Iraq for more than a year.
Perhaps the most telling moment was the exchange between the two candidates on the issue of North Korea's nuclear program. Here, Kerry, who harshly criticized Bush for rejecting multilateralism in the leadup to the Iraq war, was equally critical of Bush's insistence on maintaining a multilateral approach in dealing with North Korea today. Consistency is clearly not Kerry's strong suit.
For all practical purposes, Kerry's debate performance was little more than a replay of his campaign stump speeches. Even his close ?— ''I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as president'' ?— was almost verbatim from his acceptance speech. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.
Kerry needed to win this debate decisively. Bush not only held his own but, in a plainspoken passion, showed why voters have more confidence in his leadership in the War on Terror.
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