Your Reactions to the Second Presidential Debate

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
MrFun:

thats one of those questions that you get in school that ticks you off cause it should be easy but your mind can't think like that... it's one of those touchy-feely questions. you think Bush could just come up with 3 things (why in god's name did she pick 3? aint that a bit much?) that he considers mistakes and outline them in 2 minutes? yeah right. that was a bad question.

If a president cannot even admit to mistakes and learn from them, would you want him/her as president?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle


I'm critiqueing! I just think Bush won.

I'm critiqueing! I just think Edwards OMFGMEGAPWND Cheney because Cheney is evil!

[MrFun]

Originally posted by OzzyKP


Yes. I think he answered that question as well as he could considering it was quite loaded. Besides, there were huge dodges by both of them in many questions. Particularly as Diss noted, the deficit question I really wanted to hear how their numbers stacked up.

Both must be using "fuzzy math" because their numbers can't possibly compute. Both propose new spending, both promise tax cuts, and both want to cut the deficit in half. Ummm. Doesn't work. Gibson was great for really pressing that issue, asking both of them several times to put up some numbers, but both refused to do so. That should bother you more, Fun.

True . . . . . . you and Diss have a point there.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
MrFun:

thats one of those questions that you get in school that ticks you off cause it should be easy but your mind can't think like that... it's one of those touchy-feely questions. you think Bush could just come up with 3 things (why in god's name did she pick 3? aint that a bit much?) that he considers mistakes and outline them in 2 minutes? yeah right. that was a bad question.

I thought it was an odd question, and not really a fair one, but given that the administration gives the distinct impression that it never makes a mistake, and given that the press mentions it semi-regularly, I wasn't that surprised it was asked. I was surprised that it made it to air, but not that it was one of the questions submitted by the audience.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar

I'm critiqueing! I just think Edwards OMFGMEGAPWND Cheney because Cheney is evil!

Foul! I demand an inquiry. That second quote is not by me!

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle


Foul! I demand an inquiry. That second quote is not by me!

They both have about as much credibility

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
They both have about as much credibility

Oooh, dead stem cell babies will haunt your dreams.

[Al B. Sure!]

If a president cannot even admit to mistakes and learn from them, would you want him/her as president?

why don't you just get to the point and ask him if he thought the war in iraq was a mistake. that was the whole crux of the issue, the underlining reasoning that wasn't outright said... and bush addressed that. move on. it's not an issue to be hanged up about.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle


Oooh, dead stem cell babies will haunt your dreams.

[DanS]

Both propose new spending, both promise tax cuts, and both want to cut the deficit in half. Ummm. Doesn't work.

Actually, it does make sense. Economic growth is healthy, which raises tax revenues even if you aren't "raising taxes." As long as you keep spending increases below about 7% a year (or an equal amount in tax cuts), the deficit will be reduced.

[Al B. Sure!]

and tass, your poll numbers are a joke, right?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Albert Speer


why don't you just get to the point and ask him if he thought the war in iraq was a mistake. that was the whole crux of the issue, the underlining reasoning that wasn't outright said... and bush addressed that. move on. it's not an issue to be hanged up about.

I have the right to choose whatever I want to be ossessively hung up about.



ok . . . . . . . let's move on

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I think it wasn't just Iraq; I think it was the overall reality distortion field that surrounds the administration and makes them believe they're never wrong.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
and tass, your poll numbers are a joke, right?

Um, no. You can go look at it yourself if you want

[Dis]

Originally posted by MrFun


If a president cannot even admit to mistakes and learn from them, would you want him/her as president?

do you really think Kerry could answer that question any better about Kerry's own mistakes?