My 2 cents on the de…

My 2 cents on the debates: Overall, I think Kerry did a better job of presenting his views. Bush too often fell back to talking points (he repeated “wrong war, wrong place, wrong time” and “mixed messages” too many times for my taste).

Specifically, I think Bush got some good points in about Kerry wanting to cede our right to defend ourselves to some “global test’. Kerry says he would be pre-emptive if necessary, but only if the boys at the UN let him. What kind of foreign policy is that? He believes he could have done better in Iraq by getting France, Germany and Russia on board, but France has already said it won’t commit troops even with Kerry in the Oval Office. And with all the sweetheart, under-the-table deals with Iraq these countries had with Iraq, do you really think they’d scrap them?

Doesn’t Kerry trust his own country with the big guns? Why shouldn’t we have bunker-busting bombs to go after terrorists in bunkers? If he doesn’t trust himself with the big guns, why should we?

I’ve been spending a lot of time at Redstate.org these days, so here are some links related to the debate from over there: the live blogging (yours truly was there as ‘dpayton’), and commentary by Erick, Pejman Yousefzadeh, trevino, and ConfigSysboy. Enjoy

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