On Saturday Night Live this week they mocked the political debate from October 8, which took place in St. Louis, Missouri. George W. Bush replied to a question about reinstating the draft by blaming evil rumors on the internets. The show kept repeating the term “internets” during the parody. Watching the debate after watching Saturday Night Live, I could not believe the President of the United States of America blamed the “internets” for the American public’s concerns of the draft.

By definition the internet is a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks, using internet protocol or transmission control protocol, in order to manage data exchange.

Due to President Bush’s internets statement I declare Senator Kerry the winner of the second debate. The Lone Star Iconoclast, President Bush’s hometown newspaper that supported him in 2000, has endorsed the Kerry/Edwards ticket. Other newspapers to endorse Kerry include: The Oregonian, St.Louis Post Dispatch, Philadelphia Inquirer, and many more.

During Senator Kerry’s rebuttle of the draft question he stated that 90 percent of the casualties and costs of the war fall on Americans. Then, he said that eight countries have deserted coalition forces and America cannot fight this war alone.

Within seconds Bush jumps out of his seat and prepares for his rebuttle. The moderator, Good Morning America host Charles Gibson, said that there will not be another response from the President; Bush proceeded to speak over Gibson and give his unsolicited reaction. Bush said “I have to answer this,” then instructed Kerry to tell Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair the U.S. is alone in this war.

From that moment on the audience seemed to side with Senator Kerry.
Judging by the laughter of the St.Louis audience, Gibson and Bush, Kerry won the crowd over by joking that President Bush’s tax cuts for the rich only benefited three people in that room: himself, Bush and Gibson. Although with no wit involved, Bush received a positive reaction from the crowd by finishing a speech prematurely, then stating that Gibson had a “look” on his face as the reason.

Overall, President Bush sounded just like his commercials revealing that Kerry is a “flip-flopper.” Bush continuously recited a Kerry campaign speech saying “wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time” and those responses did not fit the subject matter. Like in the Saturday Night Live mock debate Gibson stops Bush and says “ummm ... Senator Kerry did not say wrong war at the wrong time right now.”

Although Kerry persistently stated, “I have a plan,” but could not define the plan due to time constraints, however he did give viewers another outlet to comprehend his plan. Kerry directed his audience to the internet at johnkerry.com where the plan may be downloaded and the voter can read in-depth what the Kerry/Edwards ticket strategy is.

President Bush offered no such resource.