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Welcome to Backyard Blog, our group online journal for this election season. We've asked a broad array of people with deep ties to the region to share their views on politics during the 2004 campaign.
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October 01, 2004
| One debate won't decide the race |
| Posted by Carl Gipson at October 1, 2004 10:29 AM |
During Thursday’s debates I must say I enjoyed the somewhat small respite from the normal rhetorical bantering so characteristic of the parties today. Both Kerry and Bush did a respectable job at keeping on message and trying not to wilt under the lights.
But then things quickly deteriorated in “spin alley” no sooner than the candidates respective families joined them on stage.
I mean if anyone saw DNC chair Terry McAuliff and RNC chair Ed Gillespie go atit, you’d think there would be more civility between two rival toddler gangs (with the higher possibility that the tiny tots will actually accomplishing anything).
Kerry and Bush stayed mostly on their prospective messages with little bantering and bloviating. Kerry was hot on style and the President handled the substance. Kerry’s stance on a number of issues got me thinking.
Will bringing France and Germany to Iraq solve all our problems there? Of course not, and the mere idea of that is insulting. Will our current allies be thrilled to know they’re troops will be serving under a commander in chief who thinks they’re in the wrong war?
Probably not, but if Kerry thinks he can sit down with Kim Jong Il and talk “man to man” and get him to disarm his nuclear stockpile, well then I guess getting the French to fight for a lost cause might not seem like too difficult of a task.
Already the talking heads are blathering about Bush’s annoyed looks, his hunched posture and his protruding devil horns (ok, that was just The Stranger’s opinion), but his mannerisms paled in comparison to Gore’s sighs in 2000 and many other of the historical gaffes during past Presidential debates. And if Bush’s somewhat smirking look came as a shock to the pundits when Bush was basically called a liar in front of tens of millions of people, well I’m just one of the few who might excuse him for acting human while on camera.
One debate won’t swing the race. There aren’t that many voters who are undecided.
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