I'm watching it on MSN now... Listening to Bush is painfull, not politically (well it is but thats not my point...) but because he seems very insecure public speaker... almost as bad as myself... [img]smile.gif[/img] Stammering and taking long pauses in mid sentence, poor guy.

Kerry however just rambles on... about his plans... and I'm wondering why I'm wasting my bandwidth watching this...

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Because no matter where you are, there's a good chance that the next bozo in charge of the USA will have an effect on your life. That, and it's like watching a car wreck or a grossly overweight person in spandex... you just can't look away from the spectacle.

Didn't Nixon have a Secret Plan for getting us out of Vietnam...?

LOL! We know how secret that was... and how well it worked.

Personally, I'd say they came out about even in that debate -- which, from a pretty hard Republican, is a huge compliment to Kerry.

I was embarrassed for Bush, he is such a bad speaker. He looked like he was going to faint away because he was so scared. I'm thinking is this the way he is in a dialog with world leaders.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">So when do they debate domestic policy and what is important for the USA at home? Was it me, or did they both seemed to be running for president of Iraq not president of the US.

While Foreign Affairs is important I don't think it should be the "be all and end all" of party platforms and should definitly not be the most important.

Kerry won the debate based on being the better speaker.</font>

[ 10-01-2004, 10:24 AM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

The domestic issues debate will be the third debate. This debate was specifically on foreign policy, which is a topic dominated by the "I" word over here.

Didn't waste my time watching more than a couple of minutes of this. I watched MXC instead.

<font color=plum>I thought Kerry did an excellent job. He had obviously given a great deal of thought on how to deal with Iraq if he becomes President and I have faith that he and Edwards have already begun outlining a comprehensive plan to withdraw our troops and hand control over to the Iraqi gov't completely within a specific timeframe.

My swing vote was decided last night and will be placed firmly for Kerry/Edwards come November.


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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...oggers01m.html

Here's a link to the Seattle Times about two bloggers describing the 1st debate. One Bush and one Kerry supporter.