Presidential Debates

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In debate one the focus was mainly on Homeland Security and Foreign Policy. Senator Kerry, starts it off by implying President Bush sent more than $500 billion to help with security overseas but cut our COPS program here in the United States. Kerry feels that Bush is not concerned with our security. Bush then reminds Kerry that he has spent $3.1 billion on fire and police. Kerry also brought up the tax cut that Bush gave to the wealthy rather than to invest it into Homeland Security. Bush did not have any reply to the tax cut. In the third debate they went back to security issues that dealt with people coming across the border. They wanted to knowhow bush felt about it whether or not it was a security issue, economic issue, or human-rights issue. Bush sees it as all three issues, in order to fix the problem he has increased border security.
The second issue in debate one is “When will the war end?”, and “When will our troops come home?” Kerry wants to say that if he is elected he will be able to pull some troops out. Bush on the other hand finds that to be completely impossible to put a date on when the troops will we sent home. Bush promises that when we achieve our objective, then the troops will start to come home. He would like to see the Iraqis perform and step up and take responsibility. After that, “A free Iraq will be an ally in the war on terror and that is essential.” Kerry comes back to talk about why Bush’s dad didn’t go into Iraq because, because there was no viable exit strategy. And he said our troops would be occupiers in a bitterly hostile land. Kerry believes that, that is where America is today.



In debate number three, one of the major issued discussed was the concern of economic security. President Bush, argues that if they have lost jobs overseas he will provide them with trade adjustment assistance money to learn a new trade at a local community college. However, Senator Kerry, argues tha...