Stem cells: Kerry just pointed out the single overwhelming fact here, that hundreds of thousands of embryos are either going to be destroyed eventually, or they could be used to find cures for diseases.

Bush is saying “embryonic stem cell research requires destroying lives.” If he believes that, why isn’t he outlawing fertility clinics? By his definition, they’re mass murderers, and the thousands upon thousands of Americans who have created and destroyed embryos in the course of fertility treatments should be locked up in jail. There is no logic, no morality, nothing but pathetic politics in Bush’s stem-cell policy.

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I don’t understand what that business about the president’s lumber company was, and it’s appalling that the moderator isn’t stopping to clear it up for us.

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The questions from the town hall audience are good — at least as good as Jim Lehrer’s at the last debate, in some cases better. Another blow for the wisdom of the crowd…

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Yes, that was President Bush who just said, “I’m a good steward of the land.”

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For Bush, last debate’s “hard work” is this debate’s “It’s not credible.” He’s repeating that like it’s an incantation.

Bush is now attempting to patch together a defense of his environmental record. Big problem he’s solved: The forests “aren’t harvested”!

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Kerry just vowed never to raise taxes in his first term on people earning les than $200K. Good politics, I’m sure, but probably bad government. Someone’s going to have to pay for Bush’s profligacy, and there’s no one here but us, the American people.

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Good question on the deficit, points out that Bush has had a Republican congress and still broke the federal bank. Bush says it’s the recession’s fault. “That cost us revenue.”

Kerry: “The president was handed a $5.6 trillion surplus. We now have a $2.6 trillion deficit. The biggest turnaround in the history of the country. The first president in 72 years to lose jobs. First time the USA has ever had a taxcut when we were at war.” FDR knew how to ask the American people for sacrifice. Tax cut was tilted to the rich.

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The people in the audience of this debate were, I guess, browbeaten into not showing any emotion, not breaking into cheers or applause, and so on.

Unfortunately, as a result, they all have glazed eyes. They look drugged.

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I thought Kerry just landed a pretty significant blow when Bush tweaked him about his record on Medicare in the Senate. He said that not only did they fix Medicare in the Senate in 1997, “We did something you don’t know how to do — we balanced the budget… and created [millions of] new jobs at the same time.”

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Oh, so the only reason that we’re not allowing drugs to be imported from Canada, Bush just said, is to make sure they’re safe. Doesn’t have anything to do with pharmaceutical companies’ campaign contributions and lobbyists. No way. Those scheming, conniving Canadians, they’re out to send us poison pills! Block the Canuck drug tamperers at the border!

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