After the Second Debate

I'm still seeing a John Kerry who's more indignant about the measly $300 I got back from the government two years ago than about the Islamist fanatics who slammed passenger jets into skyscrapers and killed 3,000 Americans just because they were Americans.

Mickey Kaus, meanwhile, reports on Bush's "big whiff":

Bush once again failed to pick apart Kerry's annoyingly opportunistic Iraq/Osama/Tora Bora attack. He could have argued a) Yes we made some mistakes but Kerry is letting a few of Zarqawi's bombs panic him--and trying to get them to panic the electorate. What kind of leader does that?; b) Kerry voted against the 1991 Gulf War, which began the inspection regime he says he wanted to continue! If we hadn't prosecuted that war, Saddam almost certainly would have developed a nuclear bomb, no? c) Bush did note that Kerry's plan for Iraq is basically the same as Bush's plan (plus a summit), but didn't flesh out the point in way that would be clear to the average viewer.