I agree with this 100%. The questions were a total set-up to make for Lurch look good, and the President to look bad. That being said, I think that most of the debate the President did well, I wish he would have landed a few more blows, but that is really not his way.
I kept hoping Bush would turn to Kerry and say "Senator, since you believe the war was a mistake, how will you ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake?"