Official Debate thread

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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Oct 9 2004, 10:04 AM
I thought Bush did marginally better than last time.

As far as playing religious angles ... while Bush pandered to the "civilization as we know it will end if God is removed from the pledge" crowd, Kerry did just as well with his thoughtful answer on abortion - "I respect your right to your beliefs, but as a public servant I can't force my beliefs on other people." There are an awful lot of Roman Catholics out there - not very noisy ones, but a lot of them nonetheless - who share that belief.

What bothered me is that Kerry said yeah, he can't enforce his beliefs on others, while at the same time saying that he was in favor of using tax dollars to fund abortions for people who couldn't afford them. So he wouldn't force his belief that abortion is wrong on people by trying to get abortion outlawed or something, but he'd enforce the idea that abortion is a right, by forcing taxpayers who might be opposed to abortion to pay for other people's abortions.

I appreciated his honesty on the issue, even if he was circumlocutory about it, but a lot of people are not going to want to be taxed to pay for abortions. I'm one of them.