Early in the speech he said he would be cutting the deficit in half and also said that the tax cuts needed to be permanent.
Then he got into his domestic laundry list of increasing Pell grants, funding for community colleges and a number of other things.
If I were Kerry, I would go back to other Bush domestic pledges and demonstrate that he talks about them but they rarely come to fruition and if they do they are underfunded.
We could have a conservative/liberal debate about government spending until the cows come home but this administations biggest failing and the reason they deserve to be sent home this election is the mishandling of the war on terror.