Kerry won, as far as I can tell.
It's not so much about who "won", as just that Kerry really sounded on the ball and said concrete things, versus the sound bites of GW.
One comment from GW toward the beginning of the debate that just got me. As Kerry talked about programs and what he wants to do, GW followed it up with saying that he didn't know where the money for all of that was going to come from. Sounds like a big tax gap to him - but that's for another debate. Yeah, ok George. First of all, Kerry had just said he was going to take away those tax cuts to the rich that GW loves so much. Second, GW is the LAST person to talk about spending money prudently and asking where money is going to come from with the deficit he's run up.
My cousin who is 3 years younger than me is in the Marine reserves and he's going to Iraq next month. I was driving to Target and talking to my mom on my headset when she told me. I almost started crying. It's just all such a waste - all of those soldiers and civilians dead. I pray that God will watch over him.
When I was in high school I had a teacher who told us about an analyst who told Pres. Johnson in the 60's that it would take 500,000 troops forever just to maintain the U.S. position in Vietnam - not to win, just to maintain. Many of the reports I'm reading about now, as the violence continues to escalate, sound similar.
Does it strike anyone else as surreal that I can be sitting on my couch, watching Letterman, typing away at this, and there are wars and genocide and people starving in refugee camps all over the world? I am religious and sometimes it seems like we're looking at the signs of the times, the things leading up to the end.
But then I always wonder how much of the Revelations prophecies are only metaphorical.
Kelly
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Hello.
Yes I think Kerry did a great job, I especially liked how Bush kept going back to "you can't keep changing position" as his mantra for lack of anything better to say. I also noticed gasps as Kerry described the situation with N. Korea. I like to think that people were surprised by the facts that noone wanted them to hear.
It is very surreal what a comfortable life we have here and how little others have in the world. I don't know about armaggedon though.
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