Debate 10/8Follow

Did anyone do a count on how many times Bush said the word "freedom" during this debate?

So how did you guys react to the whole Canadian medicine thing? I'm not certain whale blubber is a remedy for any known communicable diseases...

Totem

No, but that's a decent start for a debate-based drinking game.

We don't care what American Politicians say, we are just hoping you don't start bombing us.

Edited, Sat Oct 9 00:52:18 2004 by Reinman

I would say the board that reviews medication in Canada is far more trustworthy than the FDA which is now in a world of trouble because it turns out they suppressed evidence its own researchers found that Vioxx (which was also available in canada but cheaper) doubled to tripled the rate of heart attack in users.

I don't think Bush won. He may have come across as more aggressive and strong, but imo he bred too many new jokes.

1. Internets
2. More people seem to be laughing and saying "WTF is a green eyeshade?!" than getting his wit.
3. "Need some wood?"
4. Missoura
5. "I'm increasing the wetlands by... 3 million."
6. Billiona dollars
7. He proposed the hydrogen car. (so Gore only invented ONE of the Internets)

The two I caught for Kerry was:

1. the When/If mix-up, which he corrected
2. OG-BYN

I thought he came across as a bully by running over the moderator and to me his confusion jokes about Kerry's answers only made it easy to quip that he was just too stupid to understand them. He looked like a total hypocrite by raving about fiscal responsibility when they'd just gone over his deficit and his no spending vetoes.

I especially didn't like Bush's black and white view of Kerry's response to the abortion question. It really bothers me that if I as a mother am late in my pregnancy and it became a threat to my life, effecting the future of my family, I would be unable to choose between my two children.

It seemed like Kerry made good attempts to clear many of the misconceptions out there about his voting, but I wonder how many people really heard it.

Edit: forgot Missoura

Edited, Sat Oct 9 06:19:38 2004 by pikko

We steal everyones research, not just the States, cheaper and more accurate that way. Oh, but then again Germany and France like us.

No, all canadian drugs are unsafe. Oh, and by the way...

BOOOOOOOO!

Vote for bush or we will all die.

So is the general consensus that Dubya got his *** handed to him for a second time?

Worse performance / batter performance by the parties involved?

effect on the voters?

come on guy's curious Brit wants to know.

Pikka,
Most of those things Bush said are colloquialisms that Southerners use. "Missoura" is exactly how people say that state's name who live there. Much like residents of Nawlins know you're a tourist if you say "New Orleans" or you say "Fayetteville" when visiting Ft. Bragg and the natives say "Fetville." It particularly marks you as a Northerner if you insist on pronouncing these names exactly as they are spelled. The fact you don't know this suggests that each of you who poke fun of this are rubes who aren't in touch with other parts of the country.

The same goes for "Billiona dollars." That's just the dialect coming through where the "a" is short for "of."

Internets? Same thing as the thousands of people who say "WalMarts" or "National Guards."

I find it funny that you guys are so bereft of material that you resort to jumping on Bush for his lingo rather than anything to do with policy. You know, those ideas which make themselves into concrete decisions?

I also find it funny that the college students who were so frightened of the draft haven't jumped ship and gone over to Bush's camp since he has definitively said there will be no draft during his administration, but Kerry has ominously kept quiet on the subject-- which leads me to believe he's giving it serious thought as an option. After all, the Iraq war is the Iraq war, right? And if you are so pussified that you can't work up the courage to fight for your country, then Kerry is the wrong horse to be backing right about now since he apparently thinks if the draft was good enough for his generation, it's good enough for yours too.

Totem

Edited, Sat Oct 9 14:18:50 2004 by Totem

Shagging your sister should help you get in touch.

Rasmussen Reports shows Bush 50% and Kerry 46%.

Polipundit says "Bush was cleaning Kerry's clock." Note that Polipundit proclaimed Kerry the winner of the last debate.

Even the www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_10_03_corner-archive.asp#042140]Euro press is calling it a Bush victory.

EDIT: Bleh, linkage not working.

But of course, if Kerry had stripped naked and danced around on stage while singing "I'm in the money!", you guys would have called it a Kerry victory.



Edited, Sat Oct 9 15:41:37 2004 by Shaedii

Edited, Sat Oct 9 15:42:57 2004 by Shaedii

Pieman is right, watch.

I am going to McDonalds. See, it's ok.

Don't worry Pieman, I got your back.