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This is my one real gripe about the debate.
Both Bush and Kerry, in response to this question, resorted to their positions on other things: Kerry on the general need for health care, and Bush for tort reform???
Now I believe the question was for Kerry, and he should have, IMO, made the following points:
1. There's going to be unplanned for events in a presidency. Like 9/11.
2. We're going to restore the nation's public health infrastructure. Here is where he could have sneaked in his health plan, but public health is more than just insuring everyone. It is, in effect, a matter of national security if we cannot get a vaccine distributed quickly and safely to most Americans.
3. He should have looked at Bush when he was from Mars when he said, "tort reform." He should have- even if it was piggybacking on another question- mentioned that if this were the 1918 pandemic, it wouldn't be a really good idea for a president not to get a flu vaccine.
Otherwise, of course, Kerry looked like the president more than Bush. And so Kerry won. But I was a tad piqued at this response- it's the sort of thing that turns voters off. Luckily, Bush was worse at it.
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