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De Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen 2004
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vrijdag, oktober 01, 2004
Volgens de Los Angeles Times heeft John Kerry het debat met een comfortabele voorsprong gewonnen. Maar kiezers kunnen nog steeds beslissen dat president Bush het best de rotzooi in Irak kan opruimen. "In contrast to the president, who at times seemed tired and annoyed at having to share the stage, Kerry's command of the facts didn't get in the way of his being lucid and direct. The senator and former prosecutor delivered a powerful indictment of Bush's foreign policy record."
De New York Times vond inhoudelijk het debat een gelijkspel. Maar John Kerry wist zich presidentieel te gedragen, bracht zijn standpunten helder en kort en hield president Bush in het defensief. Wat dat betreft won Kerry alsnog. " Mr. Kerry found the most effective line of argument when he told the audience that "Iraq was not even close to the center of the war on terror" and that the president had "rushed the war in Iraq without a plan to win the peace." It is the strongest and most sensible critique of the administration's actions." En de Times concludeerde: " Before last night's debate, we worried that the long list of rules insisted on by both camps would create a stilted exchange of packaged sound bites. But this campaign was starved for real discussion and substance. Even a format controlled by handlers and spin doctors seemed like a breath of fresh air." USA Today wil geen winnaar van het debat aanwijzen. Dat laat de krant aan de kijker over. Maar uit het debat werd wel duidelijk dat de Amerikanen echt wat te kiezen hebben over een maand: " In shorthand, the choice is this: A president who will act independently and quickly, even at the risk of alienating allies or making a grievous mistake. Or one who will proceed more deliberately in concert with allies, potentially at the price of missing a crucial opportunity. […] The difference can affect every American. The debate left every voter with a choice." De Washington Post begon al helemaal niet aan het aanwijzen van een winnaar, maar ging in zijn commentaar uitgebreid op de verschillende standpunten in. Volgens de krant scoorden beide kandidaten punten. De krant kijkt in ieder geval uit naar het volgende presidentieel debat: " In the end the candidates drew sharply distinct portraits of themselves and each other. Mr. Bush stressed his own resoluteness, which Mr. Kerry suggested included a dangerous tendency to be divorced from reality. Mr. Kerry stressed his commitment to alliances and patient leadership, which Mr. Bush suggested could mean weakness. Both performed credibly enough to keep voters tuned in for the next debate." gepubliceerd door Marc op vrijdag, oktober 01, 2004 # 
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