{"id":130,"date":"2004-10-01T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/53\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T22:20:54","slug":"53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/01\/53\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched the debate last night with some friends, and we all felt that Kerry had a definite edge. He managed to state his position consistently, while phrasing it in different ways. Bush merely repeated stock phrases. Kerry addressed every question, and I counted two that Bush completely ducked. I was glad Kerry got a chance to confront the “flip-flopper” issue, which I think he did well. I appreciated his resolute stand on nuclear proliferation – his answer to a question about our greatest threat, to which he could have waffled and tried to cover more bases. Admittedly, I’m biased toward Kerry and agree with him on most issues.<\/p>\n

So, I was interested in how the coverage played out in today’s paper. I read all the articles with interest, but one of them pissed me off: a public-reaction piece about two young, single women who are still undecided<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was fuming when I finished reading it. All they could talk about was how the candidates (and their families) looked<\/strong>! They never got to any real issues, just how things “felt” and “sounded”. They barely mentioned any issues by name, except to admit their ignorance on them.<\/p>\n

In the end, they both concluded that they liked Bush best because they felt he was talking right to them. Ack! I don’t want people thinking that all young women are this fucking shallow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched the debate last night with some friends, and we all felt that Kerry had a definite edge. He managed to state his position consistently, while phrasing it in different ways. Bush merely repeated stock phrases. Kerry addressed every question, and I counted two that Bush completely ducked. I was glad Kerry got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}