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Originally Posted by tom12
Kerry is just promising and promising but he's promising way more than he can deliver especially if he wants to reduce the defecit even if he repeals the tax cuts, maybe he did win but he just keeps promising things he cannot give
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Yes, I agree. They're both promising things they will either have a difficult time fulfilling or will be unable to fulfill.
The difference is, Bush is promising that if we just keep on keepin' on, things will get really damn good in the next 4 years. Kerry is promising that if we change things, things will get really damn good in the next 4 years.
But Bush has already had 4 years and things got really damn worse. In some cases, due to events which were out of his initial control, but his responses have been demonstrated to fail.
The logical decision is to change course.
The one thing in this debate which was finally vocalized, even though it was asked 3 times in a previous debate - how do both candidates promise to cut the deficit in half while Bush has shown a propensity to over spend and Kerry also intends to spend? FINALLY Kerry answered that question with the unstated truth: both expect their future actions to create a turn-around in the economy. (Well, Kerry didn't state that this is what Bush expected, but clearly there is no other logical explanation for why Bush would believe he could cut the deficit in half).
Again - Bush has been promising that almost daily for the last 3 years. Simply based on the fact that there IS a question on how he expects to cut the deficit is to demonstrate that he has failed to enact any initiatives in the past 3 years which have had any ability to move the country in the direction he continues to promise.
Time for new blood.