Bush Wins Going Away
Sat, Oct 9, 2004 at 7:58:28 am PDT
Reading the transcript of the second presidential debate is a revelation. The evasiveness and negativity of John Kerry stands out in sharp relief to the straight talk of George Bush.
But of course, mainstream media is doing everything possible to denigrate Bush and exalt Kerry; in just one out of dozens of similar articles, the Associated Press’s Ron Fournier writes: Bush Fights to Keep Emotions in Check.
WASHINGTON - President Bush smirked and winked and chuckled to himself. He jumped from his stool, chopped at the air and interrupted the debate moderator. As he fought to keep his emotions in check during a combative debate with Sen. John Kerry, the president jokingly said, “That answer almost made me want to scowl.”
Several answers brought Bush’s emotions to the surface, for better or worse, as he sought to curb Kerry’s momentum.
The question that hung over the second of their three debates was whether Bush’s aggressive, hyper style was an effective tool or a damaging habit — an extension of his disastrous first debate performance. Reviews were mixed.
Whatever, AP. LGF’s own totally unscientific poll, with 3900 votes as of this writing, shows an overwhelming defeat for John Kerry—the US version of Australia’s Mark Latham.
In your opinion, who won the second Presidential debate?
George W. Bush
3163
81.1%John F. Kerry
737
18.9%
And this is in spite of a call by the morons at Daily “Screw Them” Kos to “freep” our poll.
This exchange with Senator Kerry about Iran’s nuclear aspirations shows the man’s suicidal nuclear-freeze mentality; the most important part of his plan to deal with Iran seems to be for the US to unilaterally disarm, so that we can pass the Global Test and regain our moral standing in the eyes of the French.
Q. Iran sponsors terrorism and has missiles capable of hitting Israel and southern Europe. Iran will have nuclear weapons in two to three years time. In the event that U.N. sanctions don’t stop this threat what will you do as president? In the event that U.N. sanctions don’t stop this threat, what will you do as president?
Mr. Kerry I don’t think you can just rely on U.N. sanctions, Randee. But you’re absolutely correct. It is a threat. It’s a huge threat. And what’s interesting is it’s a threat that has grown while the president has been preoccupied with Iraq where there wasn’t a threat. If he’d let the inspectors do their job and go on, we wouldn’t have 10 times the number of forces in Iraq that we have in Afghanistan chasing Osama bin Laden.
Meanwhile, while Iran is moving toward nuclear weapons, some 37 tons of what they call yellowcake, the stuff they use to make enriched uranium. While they’re doing that, North Korea has moved from one bomb, maybe, maybe to four to seven bombs. For two years, the president didn’t even engage with North Korea, did nothing at all while it was growing more dangerous. Despite the warnings of people like former Secretary of Defense William Perry, who negotiated getting television cameras and inspectors into that reactor. We were safer before President Bush came to office.
Now they have the bombs, and we’re less safe. So what do we do? We’ve got to join with the British and the French, with the Germans who have been involved in their initiative. We’ve got to lead the world now to crack down on proliferation as a whole. But the president’s been slow to do that even in Russia. At his pace, it’s going to take 13 years to reduce and get ahold of all the loose nuclear material in the former Soviet Union. I’ve proposed a plan that can capture it and contain it and clean it within four years. And the president is moving to the creation of our own bunker-busting nuclear weapon. It’s very hard to get other countries to give up their weapons when you’re busy developing a new one. I’m going to lead the world in the greatest counterproliferation effort. And if we have to get tough with Iran, believe me, we will get tough.
“Getting tough” will obviously not include using bunker busters. He’s throwing those away.
Please note: the questioner specifically mentioned the threat to Israel. But Kerry not only avoided bringing up Israel in his response to this question, he didn’t say the word “Israel” once in the entire debate.
