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Social Security: Q to Bush — where do you get the money?

Bush: “Seniors: You’ll still get your checks.” Problem is for youngsters. “We need a different strategy.” (He looks like he’s struggling very hard to remember the facts — the name “Daniel Patrick Moynihan” seemed to be hauled from the deep lumberroom of memory.)

Kerry: You just heard the president say that young people should be able to take SS money into their own accounts. Disaster. The CBO said there’d bea $2 trillion hole. Today’s workers pay into the system for today’s retirees. President has never explained where the transitional money comes from.

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/726/

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Bush is charging Kerry with “no record in 20 years in the senate” on healthcare.

Kerry: 56 individual bills that I’ve personally written. I was one of the original authors of early childhood healthcare in the 1990s. The president’s wrong.

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/725/

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Here’s what Bush said about Osama that he couldn’t remember tonight:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven’t heard much from him. And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/723/

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Do you believe homosexuality is a choice? Bush: I just don’t know. Treat people with tolerance and dignity… I believe in the sanctity of marriage. Defense of Marriage Act.

Kerry: “We’re all God’s children. If you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter she would tell you she’s being who she was born as. It’s not choice.”

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/722/

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Bush’s cadence is strangely repetitious, and I’m sorry to report it looks sometimes like he’s literally frothing. The camera is showing some very unflattering accumulations of what I can only describe as excess spittle.

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/721/

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Kerry: “This president is the first in 100 years not to veto a single bill.” Bush is replaying the “98 votes to raise taxes” canard. It doesn’t seem to matter that this “fact” has been exploded a thousand times.

Bush’s shorthand for “pay as you go” is “paygo”???

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/719/

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Kerry’s talking about reinstating “pay as you go” rules for the budget. He sounds calm and confident about improving things; Bush is not as amped as he was last Friday but somehow fidgety and, despite all the coaching, a little petulant.

http://www.wordyard.com/2004/10/13/718/