no matter what the date. You can always compare a debate!

I remember i was in the 7th grade when the Kerry vs. Bush campaign was going on. Because of my disinterest to learn about the campaign when i was younger, i decided to take a step back and compare then to now.

While i was reading the 2004 2nd presidential debate I immediately caught Kerry s views on the No Child Left Behind act. He had brought it up because it was one of the things the media was saying he changed his position on. So he decided to clear up everything within his first answer.

"No Child Left Behind Act, I voted for it. I support it. I support the goals. But the president has underfunded it by $28 billion."

When i read this i had a flashback of debate #3 when Obama said"Now we tried to do this under President Bush. He put forward No Child Left Behind. Unfortunately, they left the money behind for No Child Left Behind. "

You can already tell that within 4 years things haven't changed. This is where i see the democratic side staying consistent. The republicans don't show as much consistency on this topic when bush never even really talked about this issue in this debate at all, where as McCain attempted to make it a better plan as he called out Obama cutting him off of his sentences.



The Vice Presidential debate

These debates where so repetitive that i thought my mom kept rewinding the DVR recording of it. But it shocked me when she said she wasn't and it was live. Palin focused on being a regular small town woman rather than answering her questions. As a matter of fact she during the debate she stated "I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record" It then got to the point where no candidate answered a question and the moderator had to say "Governor, Senator, neither of you really answered that last question about what you would do as vice president. I'm going to come back to that..." So i believe both candidates got too off topic with this debate. However with the 2004 debates i believe just as much finger pointing was going on if not more because the issues with iraq where more fresh. As we can see in this commented cheyney made on edwards "What the vice president has just said is just a complete distortion. The American people saw John Kerry on Thursday night. They don't need the vice president or the president to tell them what they saw. " so apparently that never changes.