LEHRER (in his opening remarks): The umbrella topic is foreign policy and homeland security, but the specific subjects were chosen by me, the questions were composed by me, the candidates have not been told what they are, nor has anyone else. [Emphasis added]
KERRY: All of these, and especially homeland security, which we'll talk about a little bit later. [In response to the first question.]
KERRY: "This president has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the United States of America.
LEHRER (in his next question): "Colossal misjudgments." What colossal misjudgments, in your opinion, has President Bush made in these areas?
KERRY: "But the president made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is worse?"
LEHRER (in his next question): Are Americans now dying in Iraq for a mistake?
KERRY: " So what I'm trying to do is just talk the truth to the American people and to the world. The truth is what good policy is based on. It's what leadership is based on."
LEHRER (in his next question): You just -- you've repeatedly accused President Bush -- not here tonight, but elsewhere before -- of not telling the truth about Iraq, essentially of lying to the American people about Iraq. Give us some examples of what you consider to be his not telling the truth.
KERRY: "So the choice for America is, you can have a plan that I've laid out in four points, each of which I can tell you more about or you can go to johnkerry.com and see more of it; or you have the president's plan, which is four words: more of the same. I think my plan is better. And my plan has a better chance of standing up and fighting for those troops.
LEHRER (in his next question): Speaking of your plan, new question, Senator Kerry. Two minutes. Can you give us specifics, in terms of a scenario, time lines, et cetera, for ending major U.S. military involvement in Iraq?
KERRY: Darfur has a genocide.
LEHRER (not the very next question to Kerry, but the second following): Senator Kerry, you mentioned Darfur, the Darfur region of Sudan. Fifty thousand people have already died in that area. More than a million are homeless. And it's been labeled an act of ongoing genocide.
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Now this is a large majority of the questions posited to Sen. Kerry. Either Sen. Kerry has the greatest insight ability on the planet, or....
You made your case!! WOW!