Amazing - the Bush campaign is refuting Kerry's claims with his own words, including video, while the debate is going on. They are really on the ball over there! Think of the all the info they had to have on hand in order to do this so quickly.
And there is some sassy coverage at the Corner.
Bush did an excellent job tonight; he made his case well, firmly and repeatedly, in keeping with his well-known 'on message' discipline. He answered Kerry's charges and simply made a better case on the information given in the debate. Bush was clearly confident and on top of his subject; the times when his passion turned edgy, he didn't seem petty or mean.
What was noteworthy is how the supposedly brainier and more wonkish Kerry seemed neither more intelligent, nor in command of more detail. Bush deftly turned Kerry's charge of "misleading" us into Iraq around by simply pointing out that both of them reviewed the same intelligence data before coming to the same decision. Touche.
Also, Bush just seemed very human-passionately concerned and engaged, clear in his conviction about why he took us into Iraq, and why it fits into the war on terror. Kerry seemed more the detached legislator who could make a lot of promises but hadn't had years in the actual position of leading the country.