DEBATE September 30, 2004

9/30/2004 8:02 PM
Both appear to be same height due to the placement of lecterns.
Kerry - "Pluck and perseverance"
Kerry - Bush shattered alliances. We must reach out to Muslim world which this president has not done.
Answered in time.
Bush - Sept 11th changed the way we view the world. Harbor a terrorist, same as terrorist. Libya was disarmed as a result of us going to war. Free nations will help spread peace.
These are tough decisions. People know where I stand. Duty to stand against hate. Duty to defeat this enemy. Never waiver. Stay on offensive.
10 million registered in Afghanistan. Many woman. Enemy knows a free Iraq would be a disater foe the terroritss.
Kerry - I will Hunt down and kill terrorists, but must be smart. President lost focus by going into Iraq. Bush promised to go into Iraq as last resort, but he did not do this.
Kerry - 70% of opium is produced in Afghanistan. Lost focus.
Bush - I chose to go to the UN. The world is safer after removing Sadaam.
Wife - Bush leaning, not standing tall.
Bush - Many fronts on this war on terror. Chalawi does not want US leaders to send "Mixed signals" to the enemy.
Kerry - "Body Armor" not provided. "Humvees" not armored.
Bush - Kerry can't lead by voting for war then saying "wrong war, wrong time and wrong place". Saying this hurts the troops. Bush missed saying Kerry did not vote to fund the body armor and humvees.
Kerry speaking too fast. Getting mad. Rambling. "I want to quickly say"
Bush - "How is he going to pay for the promises?" I tripled amount spent on homeland security. Bush has facts to back up what he is saying.
Bush - We need to stay on the offense.
Bush - Protect America "That's my job".
Bush - When asked when we will bring troops home. "Artificial deadlines won't work".
Kerry - Quotes Bush's father argument for not going into Iraq. Wife - Low blow.
Bush - What Kerry is saying now after his flip flop on the war is not a message that should be sent to the troops. And not presidential.
Kerry - Invading Iraq after 9-11 is like President Roosevelt invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. This is stupid. Mexico and not be compared to Mexico. That is an insult to Mexico. Under Kerry's reasoning, we should not have declared war on Germany. Kerry said there were only 3 other countries with us. Bush fired back that Poland and 30 other counties are part of our coalition. The president of Poland was rightly angered by Kerry's disrepect for Poland and their contribution to the war effort.
Bush - We will not achieve objectives if send mixed signals.
9/30/2004 8:37 PM
Bush's main theme is that Kerry is sending mixed signals.
Kerry - Bush would have gone even if no weapons off mass destruction, etc.
Bush - Kerry was not wrong when he voted to authorize war.
Wife - Bush's response about sending mixed signals is boring.
Bush - Death of soldier - his death was "noble and worthy".
Bush - A free Iraq and free Afghanistan is worth it.
Kerry still talking about Vietnam. He says he is for the warrior.
Bush - Kerry changes positions and says war is a grand diversion.
Kerry - Alleges that soldiers know it the war effort isn't being done right.
Kerry - US building 14 military bases in Iraq????
Kerry - Bring the world in by sharing the stakes.
Wife - Kerry has the opposite of the "little red hen" mentality.
Bush - Kerry criticized Alawi. This is wrong. We must show support.
Bush - Enemy attacked us. I never dreamed in 2000 that I would have to wage war.
9/30/2004 8:56 PM
Kerry - Bush said enemy attacked us, but Sadaam is not the enemy. I guess that Sadaam was firing missles at our jets before the war out of love.
Kerry - He says that he would not cede right to pre-emtive strike but must first "pass the global test". Major blunder by Kerry saying this. Kerry apparently thinks that we must crawl to other countries to ask permission to defend ourselves.
Bush - Wants to keep other countries involved in discussions with N. Korea on nuclear disarmerment. Kerry wants bi-lateral talks. They worked well for Clinton didn't they? That's why we are in the mess we are in now.
Kerry - Offer N. Korea the nuclear fuel and "see" how they use it. What an idiot! How about if they use it on On San Francisco?????
Bush - Kerry said we need to put sanctions on Iran. Opps, Bush pointed out that there are already sanctions on Iran. Kerry mistake. Kerry - Bush is conducting a "Backdoor draft". We can't go into Sudan, over extended.
Bush - We have given Sudan 200 million in humanitarian aid and imposed sanctions on government. Work need to work with the African Union.
Question for Bush - Character issues that keep Kerry from being president? - Mixed messages. I think Bush was being kind.
Kerry - Certainty is OK, but may be certainly wrong. Certainly can get you into trouble. Bush - Can not wilt under pressure. Nice comeback.
Kerry - Never wilted or wavered in my life. 9/30/2004 9:16 PM
Kerry - Wrote a book. Nuclear proliferation. He also wrote one with the flag upside down. Wonder where all the copies have gone? Bush isn't securing nuclear weapons. I will shut down our program of nuclear bunker buster.
Bush - Actually I increased funding for securing nuclear weapons. Increase missile defenses. Says Kerry opposed missile defense systems.
Question - Did Bush misjudge Putin? Bush - Putin is cracking down. Bush said he disagreed with Putin on crackdown on freedom. But still a good ally on war on terror.
Kerry - Sadaam was a threat, but Bush didn't get agreement from UN and world. Didn't pass the "global test" I guess. I wonder if declaring war on Germany would have passed the global test? Would Japan and Italy or even Spain have said go ahead?
Wife - Kerry screwed the soldiers after he came home from Vietnam. He does not love America.
Bush - "Our country is not going to drift towards weakness in this dangerous age. "

The First Rathergate

It seems the latest Rathergate is not the first. Check this link out: http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200409150552.asp

Make your own decision.

Look at a comparison of the CBS documents and the documents released by the Pentagon. Decide for yourself. Are the CBS ads fake? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/daily/graphics/guard_091404.html

Bloggers on the trail of "Rathergate".

This keeps getting bigger and bigger. Check out this blog which is tracking it all. http://www.rathergate.com/

Dems Goof Again

The Dems are putting out another attack ad aimed at the president. It claims that the president lied when he put out a campaign ad in an early congressional run that said he had been a member of the Air Force.

Opps..... Drudge found a document that proves that the president did in fact serve in the Air Force on active duty for 120 days.

http://www.drudgereport.com/bush.pdf

Will Kerry and his attack dogs ever get it right?

Real or fake, that is the question.

It is amazing to me that anyone could believe the recent "memos" generated by some slime "non-expert(s)" are real. Give me a break. One only needs to enter the exact words into Word in Times New Roman 12 pt and they will find that the words break exactly as the supposed real memos newly found about President Bush's National Guard service in the early 70's.

I could go on........ More later.