Who won the debate?

[1stdeadeye]

Well????

[Will Wood]

I take sides to neither, but I support bush as the lesser of two evils.


But kerry owned the debate. Simple as that.

[who_311]

I tought they both did quite well. They both spoke strongly about what they think. Kerry seems to be a bit more experienced when it comes to public speaking but, I thought Bush did a great job talking to the people, not just lecturing them. Both of them cleared up a few questions I had on their stances.

Now, that being said, I thought Kerry did a better job answering the questions, but Bush really did a great job.

alex

[personman]

Well, its a toughie, but I would have to say Kerry.
Bush has always been a pretty bad speaker, thats one of his main weaknesses that makes people believe that he is so stupid. It most certianly showed in this debate. There was alot of hesitation on his part. He did do a decent job though, and he got the point across.
Kerry was just meh.

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

Kerry definitly won the debate, although he brought up Vietnam too much.

And Bush in some cases, would say something and not support his points.

[VC8228]

Bush keeps stammering, making faces, and he's repeating himself when he answeres every single question.

Kerry is calm and collected, and he is talking like he's actually prepared for this debate.

Bush is losing this debate something fierce.

Found this in the other debate thread, and it's exactly how I feel.

[tony3]

I think they both were bsing around the issues and not making exact points. Coming into the debate, Bush was going to have a much harder time, overall in all the debates Bush will have a harder time, just because Bush has been president for 4 years and Kerry has a lot to knock him about, Bush on the other hand, has to just play defensive and try to prove Kerry wrong.

Honestly, I don't care who wins, I dislike both of them.

[i_baked_cookies]

kerry completely killed bush in the debate. bush lacks the lingual skills required to even debate... plus i hate him. kerry is a very good speaker, but i dont really like him either. i think kerry is the lesser of two evils, but thats only in the case of me having to choose one or the other.

vote nader

[PissedGodzilla]

This wasn't even close... i actually felt bad for Pres. Bush towards the end. Kerry owned this debate.... BIG TIME... yet Hannity is like "bush destroyed kerry" what a loser....

[PyRo]

We had to pick apart speachs by both of them in English class. The general agreement we had on the whole was Bush had much better written speechs. Although I didn't see the debates tonight.

[PissedGodzilla]

We had to pick apart speachs by both of them in English class. The general agreement we had on the whole was Bush had much better written speechs. Although I didn't see the debates tonight.

It was a massacre... Bush spent half of his time just staring blankly at the camera, trying to think of something to say... if this was a football game, the score would be something like

Kerry 49
Bush 10

ugly to say the least....

[the electrician]

Kerry brought up the most important point.

there is nuclear material in countries that are unstable. these countries cannot afford to pay us to take care of the situation. the current plan will take 13 years to fix this problem.this is true, this is real, this is serious.

what does bush say afterwards, they didn't cut the funding, they increased it and the need to spend money on missle defense programs.

that is not true.

if bush was really interested in "homeland security" he would do something about this and the other real problems around the world, not send our troops to iraq.

[Kevmaster]

No question. Kerry won this debate. While I disagree with a lot of the things he said (and, notably many things Bush said), he won hands down. He was much more composed and well prepared. I was surprised...i was expecting Bush to win in a landslide.

[MaChu]

I think Bush had more substanance while Kerry had more composure. Bush just kinda paused and thought, didn't say things articulately, BUT he had his ideas straight and I think thats what counts. Kerry on the other hand had more public speaking experience, sounded nice, but had more contridictions than a scitzo on ritalin. I call it a draw.

[FooTemps]

bush sounded like a broken record that skipped like a bad cd player. Although I didn't watch the whole debate, Bush seemed to only have on point that he kept returning to, which was a rather weak point in the first point. Kerry on the other hand was composed and tried to at least not repeat the same topic in one sentence. Kerry did bring up the point about the nuclear materials, which hit pretty hard against bush IMO. Yeah, bush got destroyed... he stood by his point, but he still got destroyed.