Undrunken coverage of PD3

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Good lines from the debate:
Bush: Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations.
Kerry: Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
Bush: In all due respect, I'm not so sure it's credible to quote leading news organizations about -- oh, nevermind.
Kerry: You don't measure it by a percentage increase. Mr. President, you measure it by whether you're getting the job done.

Lines from Web Commenters:
If the president's administration has had a net job loss, I think you have to attribute some of it to 9/11 and the dot.com bubble bursting (which was a residual of the Clinton administration). - the dot com burst was because of Clinton?
Kerry has been a senator for 20 years. Can you name one thing he has done? hmmmmm. - can most people name anything any senator has done? Could you name anything Bush had done before becoming president?
President Bush is clearly presenting his plan with optimism and confidence. - Good that he's optimistic, but I'm optimistic about saving enough money for a BMW next year. Saying it doesn't make it so, as we'lve seen over the past few years.

Best example of dodging a direct question:
SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, I want to go back to something Senator Kerry said earlier tonight and ask a follow-up of my own. He said -- and this will be a new question to you -- he said that you had never said whether you would like to overturn Roe v. Wade. So I'd ask you directly, would you like to?
BUSH: What he's asking me is, will I have a litmus test for my judges? And the answer is, no, I will not have a litmus test. I will pick judges who will interpret the Constitution, but I'll have no litmus test.

And on GLBT equality:
Bush: (Responding to whether he thinks homosexuality is a choice) "You know, Bob, I don't know. I just don't know.".
Kerry: "I think if you talk to anybody, it's not choice." and later "You can't disallow someone the right to visit their partner in a hospital. You have to allow people to transfer property, which is why I'm for partnership rights and so forth."

And finally the results: (very preliminary 11:21pm from MSNBC)

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dantallion said:

Good recap. These are the things that stood out for me as well.

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