Thursday, 14 October 2004
Bob Schieffer as Moderator
« Bush vs Kerry - Round 3 | Main | Why Bush? »And that is, will our children and grandchildren ever live in a world assafe and secure as the world in which we grew up? What is he talkingabout? Didn't we grow up in a world with fear of a nuclear war? a fear ofcommunism? I am not sure what he is talking about.
Both of you are opposed to gay marriage. But to understand how you havecome to that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic question. Do youbelieve homosexuality is a choice? What the hell kind of question isthis? The issue of gay marriage is a real issue, but this is a questiontrying to trap Bush
Health insurance costs have risen over 36 percent over the last four yearsaccording to The Washington Post. We're paying more. We're getting less.Nice editorial of we're paying more and getting less. That comes rightout of the Kerry talking points
The gap between rich and poor is growing wider. More people are droppinginto poverty. Yet the minimum wage has been stuck at, what, $5.15 an hournow for about seven years. Is it time to raise it?This question fired me up more than any other question. The gap betweenthe rich and poor is growing wider? This is a flat out lie perpetrated bythe left for years and to add it into a question is a complete outrage.
Mr. President, I want to go back to something Senator Kerry said earliertonight and ask a follow-up of my own. He said, and this will be anew question to you, he said that you had never said whether you would like to overturn Roe v. Wade. So I'd ask you directly, would you liketo?Since the candidates can't ask each other questions, I guess it is okfor the moderator to ask the question for Kerry?
Senator, the last debate, President Bush said he did not favor a draft. Youagreed with him. But our National Guard and Reserve forces are beingseverely strained because many of them are being held beyond theirenlistments. Some of them say that it's a back-door draft.More Democratic talking points
Senator Kerry, after 9/11 -- and this is a new question for you -- itseemed to me that the country came together as I've never seen it cometogether since World War II. But some of that seems to have melted away. Ithink it's fair to say we've become pretty polarized, perhaps because ofthat would be your attitude on that?Gee, I wonder how Kerry will answer this one? This time we will putthe softball on a tee!
After going over the questions, I can tell you one thing for sure. BobSchieffer didn't do anything to lessen the charge that CBS is a biasedshill of the DNC.
