I didn't watch the first one, just by chance went through the closing session of the second and out of curiousity checked the BBC page for feedbacks on the same. While whether Bush won or Kerry won the debate will always be debatable and subjective, Kerry did create a problem by talking about a plan and not telling what it was. It was very awkward, but again there may have been reasons for not telling about the plan. On the other hand, I was surprised to see the president of the United States acting as our local politicians act. To his merit he has got strong though controversial views (such as his opposition to abortion) as against Kerry's (a little too) flexible approach (which is more representative than Bush's though). But he clearly failed when he skirted some of the questions, the biggest being the three mistakes he had made. That was a typical political answer which is used when the truth is damaging. At least he could have used this opportunity to admit the mistake of trusting false and unverified intelligence reports and still justify the decision of Iraq invasion for all the other blah blah he is telling about it. By not coming clean about it when given a chance, I guess he doesn't want to confront the real issues.

All in all I guess if Kerry starts hammering home some of the points in his so-called plans, he might get a bigger lead, because that seems to be the only problem area in his campaign.

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