It -- book burning is -- is -- is not the -- the -- the greatest tactic in American politics in 2006.

Challenge Allen to debate your record. Challenge to debate whether or not literature should be -- should be censored.

I'm not altogether certain that this is going to work for Senator Allen. I'm not sure this whole thing is not going to backfire.

I think there's a political downside for Allen, and a political upside for Webb, if Webb takes advantage of it.

It's Iraq. And -- and it's clearly the -- driving people's attitudes toward -- toward the country. It's clearly driving the wrong-track number in the country. And -- and people are clearly frustrated about it.

It's Iraq. There are other things that people are frustrated about, but this is the big one.

I think now that it's -- it's a little bit different, that Iraq is one -- is -- is one of the things that causes people to -- to have a negative lens upon which they look at the country.

I think a lot of people are fearful we will be there for another 10 years.

It should have been anticipated before they made this decision.

Yes, I don't know, and I'm not sure it would be politically good for him.

This is unprecedented. And the idea to say, well, there's 7,000 others is a little bit like saying, well, you know, 5,000 planes land safely and a couple of them collide in midair and you want to spend all your time covering that.

If they want to get it passed, what they need to do is attach it to a bill that helps coal companies or pharmaceutical companies or insurance companies. Then the wrath of God would come down on this Congress, and they'd get it passed…

You want to be careful (UNINTELLIGIBLE) have bad reaction shots. You know the principle in a debate, it's better to counterpunch than it is to punch.

You want to have a framework that the candidate can go back to, and you want to practice pivoting.

Things are not going well in America. This is a jobless recovery. Health care costs exploding. Things are not going well in Iraq.

We've got to change that and change it right away. We need to have an administration that understands that.

This administration's attention has been completely diverted to Iraq.

The Kerry campaign didn't have a very good August but the country under President Bush has had a terrible August.

I think they had a bad August. I think that they know that and they're making changes at the campaign.

The lack of respect that we have around the world is costing American diplomacy. It's costing America in prestige.

Their answer to everything is to try to dig themselves out of this quagmire they got in Iraq and not pay attention to things that are happening right here in the United States of America.

I think that's where Senator Kerry needs to be. I think that's where Senator Kerry is.

I think it would be wrong for the Kerry people not to say that there has been an ever so slight, but noticeable, erosion here.

The thing that's going to matter is President Bush's speech, specifically how does he tell American people about Vietnam, now that -- about Iraq now that he said he made a miscalculation.

Mr. President, we ain't got nothing to buy anything, how the hell can we own anything out here in America? Get real.