# Bush-Kerry Debate: Part Deux **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 9, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302 "2004-10-09T00:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![TheVincent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TheVincent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVincent)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/241 "2004-10-09T01:45:14Z")
“The President is just trying to scare everyone.” I… I love you. Bush is coming close to losing his shit again on this Medicare issue. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/242 "2004-10-09T01:45:15Z")
Ohh, “compasionate conservative” is really a mean SOB. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/243 "2004-10-09T01:45:26Z")
All right! Who’s the one person that looked but didn’t post? ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/244 "2004-10-09T01:45:31Z")
Goddamned trial lawyers, ruining everything. I’d be pissed too, Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/245 "2004-10-09T01:45:36Z")
Did Bush just interrupt the moderator again? He really does think the rules don’t apply to him, doesn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/246 "2004-10-09T01:45:45Z")
Ohh yes. I don’t have a functional TV, but if Kerry looks half as good as he sounds on the radio, this is very cool 😃 And Bush most definitely sounds like he’s losing his grip on things. (Now, please, please tell me it looks that way on TV, too…) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/247 "2004-10-09T01:45:50Z")
aeschines - BUSH - yeah I thought so too - he’s coming across REAL nasty in this one and NOT in an assertive way - more like grouchy, bitter, resentful… ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/248 "2004-10-09T01:45:51Z")
Bush did say “Kennedy.” I figured I must have missed the question. It just turns out that Bush still can’t speak correctly. TRIAL LAWYERS! THE TRIAL LAWYERS ARE COMING!!! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/249 "2004-10-09T01:46:06Z")
Trial Lawyers! DRINK! ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/250 "2004-10-09T01:46:21Z")
Trial lawyer! Boo! Scary! Bush isn’t doing as well in the last 10 minutes as he did before. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/251 "2004-10-09T01:47:28Z")
“I came from the school of thought” =Bush Yup, it was that ONE thought. ---
**Author:** ![TheVincent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TheVincent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVincent)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/252 "2004-10-09T01:47:28Z")
“I come from the school of thought where…” - Bush No matter what he said after that, I feel it is our duty to find that school and destroy it for the good of society. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/253 "2004-10-09T01:47:31Z")
OK, that’s about the third time Bush has talked right over the moderator. This is why I wouldn’t do well running one of those things, I’d be inclined to say something like: “Mr. President, kindly sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up till it’s your turn”. I know, that’s not helpful. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/254 "2004-10-09T01:47:34Z")
> [@Random](#): > > Sheesh, I know it’s petty of me, but comments like this (and similar fanatic comment from **Reeder** , and from **Diogenes** and others) that no one with two brain cells could vote for Bush make me significantly less likely to vote for Kerry. It’s a scary, almost religious obsession that I don’t want to be associated with. It’s worse then just ‘petty’ of you, it’s idiotic. It shouldn’t matter WHAT Kerry supports say on an internet(s) message board. Be your own man (or woman) and vote on the issues. Not on **Reeder’s** or **Dio’s** perceived putdowns. Man, I hate it when people decide their votes this way! _Someone_ doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together… that is certain. Somebody stated a thread voicing these same ridiculous ideas a month or two ago. Was that you? I can’t believe I have to share a country with people like this. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/255 "2004-10-09T01:47:41Z")
Let me get this straight. The Republican candidate is PROMISING to spend more than the current $120 billion. Am Bizzaro-World! ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/256 "2004-10-09T01:47:51Z")
There’s a pure lie. There has been no pay raise for the military recently. My disabilty goes up when pay goes up. And it hasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/257 "2004-10-09T01:48:39Z")
Oh, come on now, people, it’s past Georgie’s bedtime! Oooh, Kerry’s bringing up the surplus! Hehehe…if this were a shoot out, Bush would look like swiss cheese. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/258 "2004-10-09T01:48:50Z")
Wasn’t that surplus based on predictions from the Internet bubble? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/259 "2004-10-09T01:48:51Z")
bush seems to be anti canada for some reason. he forgets that they were with us on 9/11, have with our military, defended the borders of both countries, and many instances when canada stood next to us and times when they had our backs. i’m not surprized he doesn’t think that canada is a good drug source. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-kerry-debate-part-deux/268302/260 "2004-10-09T01:49:08Z")
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