Changing gears, I thought a telling moment came near the end when a cute, shy-looking woman asked Kerry what he would say to a person who believed abortion was murder. I thought Kerry fielded the question perfectly, but the girl who asked the question looked like she has been put up to it by her church group and didn't really want to have to do it.
The stem cell issue is another one in which Bush is clearly out of his league. He shamelessly panders to the religious right while babbling about "morality", yet not seeming to care about what the vast majority of very moral health care professionals are saying.