Comments on: The One Lingering Bite?

by: Jack

Sat, 02 Oct 2025 13:42:36 +0000

Yes, but he is not hitting it very hard. Burning Kerry on it in the debate would have made it a major sound byte and would have defined the campaign. This is a point on which Americans feel very strongly. Bush really missed a great opportunity.

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by: Bill

Sat, 02 Oct 2025 05:59:49 +0000

About Bush not attempting a “knock out punch” with the “Global test” gaffe, doing so might have alerted Kerry to the gravity of his mistake and caused him to address it in the debate. Now Bush has a big fat defining quote with no in debate rebuttal to muddy the rhetorical waters.

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by: Teri

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 23:55:14 +0000

I wonder if Kerry meant “global” in the sense of “comprehensive” but if so, he is a total moron for trying to be so nuanced and failing to realize how normal people use the word “global.”

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by: The Galvin Opinion

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 22:41:04 +0000

DEBATE RECAP: KERRY DIDN’T GET NEEDED KNOCKOUT
Kerry is behind Bush in the polls. He needed a major effort to make an impression on the American people on why he should be commander-in-chief. He had to shake things up, dramtically. John Kerry failed in that mission.

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by: The Lonewacko Blog

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 20:41:08 +0000

Kerry’s use of “global test” is being misrepresented. See my discussion here, which includes Bush today misrepresenting Kerry’s remarks.

He’s saying that we shouldn’t preemptively strike if we can’t prove that it was the right thing to do, and gives Colin Powell having to apologize for his speech as a counterexample.

Is that really so hard for Bush to understand? Shouldn’t we care about world opinion and our own credibility? Or, does Bush not care if America’s credibility around the world is reduced? Should America be known as the country that fibs?

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by: Rob M

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 20:33:43 +0000

In watching the debate with my High school seniors they asked a good question. I was asked “Kerry said we did not use allies in Iraq but said it was wrong to use allies in Afganistan and North Korea. So which is it should we use allies or not?”

I was at a loss for an answer. Outside of starting an answer with “well you just have to understand….” which sucks. I know why each situation is different but how to explain in a short way to a group of people who don’t know much about world politics?

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by: Jack

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 18:52:20 +0000

Bush really missed that softball. He should have said, “It is always important to have allies on our side, but other countries have different interests. That is not necessarily bad, but it is a fact. Unlike my opponent, I will never subordinate our national security to any other country or body. When it comes to national security, my decisions will be based upon the “America Test,” that is, what is best for America.”

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by: Don

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 18:22:39 +0000

Kerry has a new slogan. Check out

www.seriousfake.blogspot.com

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by: Johnny Walker Red

Fri, 01 Oct 2025 17:32:19 +0000

I think that line was infuriating, and I think it will be devastating in ads. I also think it will resonate with women.

Another point: did the Gulf War “pass the global test”? Because he voted against it.

What this shows is that world opinion actually IS irrelevant to Kerry - he is always anti-war, no matter what the international community thinks. He’s of course only using the “global test” canard this time because the rest of the world happened to agree with his anti-war stance this time.

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