Your Rections to the Third/Last Presidential Debate

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Dissident
no, it's because Bin Ladin didn't and still doesn't pose any threat to the United States.

No terrorists will attack mainland US in the next decade.

[GePap]

Enough with the threadjack

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by GePap
Enough with the threadjack

But the Red Sox lost!

[Fake Boris]

Anyone else think that the Republican efforts to label Kerry as a liberal are pathetic? The worse is that I'm affraid SUV mom could fall for it.

[Dis]

It's a valid point, but he repeated it too many times

[Fake Boris]

I mean it's just a tautology. Well duh he's a liberal - why don't you attack his ideas if that's so bad? Let's hope that no one will fall for it, but this might be wishful thinking when you look at the overall quality of opinion pieces in the media.

Ideological hijacks playing on the moral connotation of words

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Anyone else think that the Republican efforts to label Kerry as a liberal are pathetic? The worse is that I'm affraid SUV mom could fall for it.

SUV moms fall for everything

[Dis]

CNN talking heads are talking like Kerry has a legimate shot at this election.

I actually think bush will win comfortably- it won't be a blowout, but it shouldn't have problems like in 2000.

[Shi Huangdi]

IMO, this was a decisive victory for John Kerry. Bush may have scored more "points" in this debate, but on two key Grounds I thought Kerry won. For one thing, in talking about the bread and butter issues such as outsourcing, health care, and generally the whole middle class squeeze, Kerry came out alot stronger with alot more populist point. If you're an Ohio voter who isn't doing so well or you're neighbors aren't doing so well, I think Kerry came out with a much stronger message. Moreover, with his repetition that he will not place our security in the hands of foreign leaders, he helps himself on national security. Bush did a better job on taxes, but I don't think that is a big issue with undecided voters.

[chequita guevara]

Both candidates bored me. The only new thing I heard before I decided to go play Civ instead was the min wage thing by Kerry. $7 ain't enough, but it's significantly closer to a living wage than anything we've had in twenty years (the living wage was $7.69 in 1996, the amount needed by one wage earner to keep a family of four above the poverty level).

[Ted Striker]

Living wage.

Stupid economic equillibrium charts and theories be damned.

[chequita guevara]

The raising of the min. wage is always followed by an economic expansion. When you put more money in the pockets of the poorest workers, they spend it, which means businesses need to hire more workers to make more products, which means more wage earners spending more money.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


But the Red Sox lost!

[AnnC]

Absolutely right, Che. If Bush had raised the minimum wage, instead of cutting taxes on investment, he probably would've achieved net job growth during his administration.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Bush's homosexuality answer was well crafted. He can't come out and say it isn't a choice and lose a good deal of Christians. He also can't say it is a choice and lose a large portion of the swing vote. Kerry did a good job with his answer as well, since he isn't going to get the fundie vote anyway.

Who won I don't know. Both Candidates bugged me, I score it even because I wasn't paying much attention to style. Kerry bugs me more and more. Still planning on voting for him, I guess.

It was stupid double talk.

To profess that you "tolerate" gays while trying to avoid saying anything deragatory about gays. He obviously could not dare to express how he truly feels about gays.


EDIT: I am referring to Bush in this post.