If you don't understand the justification and thinking behind the decision, how can you agree with the decision? I may agree that the death penalty should be abolished, but I certainly don't agree that the reason for abolishing it should be because Zorkon the Space God decreed it. I would not be happy knowing that my president was acting on the counsel of Zorkon to begin with.
Regarding the debates, I was impressed with Kerry and unsurprised at Bush. Sometimes when I listen to Bush's speeches I can't believe that the guy pays a speech writer - the majority of his speeches are boringly repetitive and simplistic and seem to pander on the hope that the majority of the audience will believe anything he tells them, no matter how removed from reality it is. Kerry sounded like a leader while Bush sounded like a child (and looked more and more like a monkey the longer the debate wore on).
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