Article in the Washington Post about mistruths in the debate, and on this score, Bush was the clear winner.

There are SO many “hidables” in the Bush plan that their modus operandi has to be coverup. If they were straight with the Anmerican people about what thy’re trying to accomplish, they’d be booted out. So they use the deceptive names like “Clear Skies” and “Healthy Forests”. They have been moving full bore to dismantle nearly every “protective” regulation so that their bosom buddy corporations can shave off the “hindrances” to higher profits. We need to have an expose about the personell in the regulatory position appointments of this administration– the people who themselves were formerly working in and /or for the very corporations who showed the propensity toward pollution and abuse that the regulations were created for in the first place. Bush’s solution: “Common sense science” (read: Scarp the regulations because they interfere and impede profits– and I suppose they say this while assuming as they do, that these “higer profits” will “trickle down” into lower prices. Bullshit.

Plenty of Flaws Among the Facts (washingtonpost.com)

Bush, hitting Kerry for alleged inconsistency, also asserted: “He said he thought Saddam Hussein was a grave threat, and now he said it was a mistake to remove Saddam Hussein from power.”
Kerry has never said that. This attack is derived from a Kerry statement that “the satisfaction that we take in [Hussein’s] downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.” Kerry prefaced that statement, however, by saying that although Hussein was “a brutal dictator who deserved his own special place in hell,” that by itself was not a reason to go to war.

I wish Kerry would scrap saying “I made a mistake in the way I talked about the 87 billion dollars. Why doesn’t he explain his opposition to the Bush financial irresponsibility that this bill represented. And when Bush says that Kerry voted against the body armor, why doesn’t Kerry point out that the military men have resorted to buting their own by having their families order it over the Internet and ship it to them (a returned soldier who apppeared on NOW about a month ago testified to this)? What did Bush veto or neglect to do that actually contributed to this state of neglect of those very men and women he claims to support first and foremost? (Once again, he says one thing, and does another, often the very opposite, using what Kerry called “Orwellian phrases” — that was one of the few times I ever heard Kerry point out how “Clear Skies” and “Healthy Forests” are camflogue/disguise for doing the exact opposite — Bush actually used the word “harvest” when he was talking about Forests, and then quickly changed his emphasis — a clear picture of his real intents and strategies (which is more like “No Tree Left Behind” — a gem courtesy of George Lakoff who used this as an example of the Bush team’s use of names for programs that give an entirely different sense from what the program actually does.)