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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (42950)	10/5/2000 12:17:35 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

Slate's Jacob Weisberg: declares his winner right up front. "My take: Bush got his clock cleaned. The reason was pretty simple and evident from the first minutes. The debate was mostly about policy. And whereas Al Gore understands policy and can engage in a detailed discussion about it, George W. Bush doesn't and can't. "This disparity was evident from the first question. ... The policy gap became even clearer on the next topic, prescription drugs for the elderly. ... On this second pass, Bush responded even more lamely and vaguely. ... The next subject, abortion, made Bush squirm even more. Bush apparently didn't want to remind the swing women of the battleground states that he wants to make abortion illegal. ... "I don't think Bush won a single exchange all evening. ... The consensus going into the debate was that Bush had to prove to the American people that he wasn't too dumb to be president, while Gore had to prove he wasn't too mean. Gore, with disciplined restraint, did show he wasn't too mean. As for Bush—well, he still has two more chances."