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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (60567)	10/15/2004 9:56:16 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

"This administration has pursued a big-government spending policy and a small-government taxing policy. The result can only be deficits as far as the eye can see." sfgate.com

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (60567)	10/15/2004 1:23:38 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Morning After _________________________________ Posted by James Wolcott a VANITY FAIR contributing editor 10.14.04 11:13AM jameswolcott.com <<...Now that the three debates belong to history, furnishing boring anecdotes from Michael Beschloss and Doris Kearns Goodwin for years to come, I'm struck by a single defining element that permeated each encounter: Bush's cavalier lack of preparation. Forget the cosmetics for a moment: the menagerie of mannerisms Bush displayed. He simply didn't come loaded with ammo. I assumed that he'd have some killer line at the ready, some surprise dug up from Kerry's record to spring, a practiced bit of eloquence that would lift the debate at a dramatic moment out of the recitation of facts and figures. He not only didn't have the eloquence, he barely had the facts and figures. For some bizarre reason best left to future psychologists, Bush doesn't seem to have approached these debates seriously. He refused to acknowledge he couldn't get by with simply rehashing his stump speech. When I saw on the news that Bush has prepared for this final debate by rehearsing during his spare moments on the campaign trail in Air Force One and the limo drives, I thought: that's now true preparation, that's lazy last-minute cramming. Kerry was not only prepared to the point of overprepared, but he used the classic public speaker's device of making local allusions to drive home an argument and impress the local audience with his familiarity with their situation (quoting the numbers of people in Arizona who'd lost their health insurance, for example). Bush barely seemed to know or care what state he was in. It was as if for him a studio was a studio was a studio. In contrast to Kerry's methodical manner of persuasion, Bush came across as assertive and sketchy, and that headstrong haziness is why the US is in such a mess in Iraq and why he lost all three debates...>>