Last Presidential Debate

I’ll leave the specifics to the fact-checkers, but a few things jumped out at me.

Is "Pay As You Go" sometimes called "Pay Go" or did the President just make that up? Also, I wonder what he set out to say when he said, "quote leading…never mind."

I couldn’t believe Bush denied what he himself had said about not being concerned about Bin Laden. Even I remembered something to that effect. And when he said Kerry had no record on health care, I found that hard to believe. Kerry countered that he wrote 56 bills. On the other hand, I want to know why Kerry claimed Bush hadn’t met with the Black Caucus. Bush didn’t meet with the NAACP recently, but he met with the Urban League.

Kerry was right about gays. Anyone who has a gay relative knows it’s not a choice. Some people are just born that way. I heard that today the right wing is all worked up about Cheney’s daughter. That’s what Republicans do, they pick a detail and then they keep freaking out about it.

I appreciated that Kerry brought up religion a few times, and I think this could convince a lot of Americans to finally give up on the Republican Party once and for all. I’m disgusted with Republican "Holier than thou" posturing. Democratic Party ideals, at least in theory, more closely adhere to the Golden Rule, which is at the core of the Christian faith. And, of course, the Green and Nader movements would be best able to put those Democrat ideals into practice, because they are free of the corrupting influence of big money.