Numerous questions to President Bush were phrased in such a way as to put him on the defensive, requiring him to explain how he would correct what Lehrer implies are previous mistakes.
Conversely, most of Kerry's questions were soft balls designed to let him reitrate his new and improved (and presumably final and solid) campaign talking points.
I guess Kerry's two decades of Senate votes on matters effecting foreign affairs were not deemed germane to tonight's discussion of foreign affairs. I'm sure there will be much discussion among the pajamaed (sic?- hell, I don't even know if this is a word-but it should be) hoi polloi regarding this issue.
What's intersting is a novel that Lehrer wrote a few years back. Here's an excerpt: "Taking journalistic activism to unprecedented new heights, the media figures at the heart of this ingratiating post-Clinton political satire overtly change the course of a presidential election. At Williamsburg, Va., a few weeks before election day, Bible-quoting, media-savvy Republican David Donald Meredith will debate an all-but-defeated Democratic challenger. But newspaperman Michael J. Howley, the debate moderator, and the panel of questioning journalists so fear the consequences of Meredith's impending presidency that they conspire to ruin him by dispensing with the set debate format and ambushing Meredith with damning, unpublished documents in Howley's possession." From the novel "The Last Debate: A Novel of Politics and Journalism, by tonights moderater, Jim Lehrer.
Hmm, a cabal of heroic Lefty, err, liberal activists, I mean journalists, go after a Bible-quoting Republican incumbent to in order to save their floundering Democratic challenger. You don't think...no. Of course not.
After all, this was just a work of fiction. I mean really, a Left leaning media. How absurd!
Thanks a bunch. I think Strunk and White might disagree with your assessment of paragraph structure, but I should have used the conjugated form of "It is" in my first line.