2004 Debate

             The third presidential debate was held at Arizona State University, where President Bush and Senator Kerry tackled various issues such ass jobs, healthcare, the war in Iraq, and taxes. This final debate between these candidates would prove to be the most heated out of the three. Senator Kerry immediately came out firing accusing President Bush of misguiding the war in Iraq, lost jobs at home, and millions without healthcare. Bush responded saying his "Democratic rival has a lifelong liberal bent on raising taxes and government spending." This was just the beginning of an onslaught of remarks from a well prepared Bush campaign while Kerry's party seemed to be disorganized and even dodge questions at times.
             Senator Kerry focused the bulk of his argument on blaming President Bush on almost everything that went wrong in this country. He started by saying President Bush made the country more unsafe by going into war in Iraq. On top of that he lost the most jobs for Americans in recent history. "11 consecutive presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike, have been hit with recession and war, yet none of them lost jobs the way this president has" said Kerry. Later Kerry moved on to health care, stating that five million Americans have lost their coverage during Bush's presidency. "The president has turned his back on the wellness of America, and there is no system and it's starting to fall apart," stated Kerry.
             When it was President Bush's time to speak, he immediately disagreed with Senator Kerry's plan to expand health care by saying "plan is not a litany of complaints, and a plan is not to lay out programs you can't pay for." The President explained under Kerry's proposal it would cost the government an average of seven thousand seven hundred dollars per family. If every family in America enrolled in Kerry's plan, it would cost the country an average of fi...

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