JoeUser ForumsNo problem - Kerry went to the Iraq card on the very first question. You're not voting for Bush, anyway, so what's beef? Cheers, Daiwa
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Def - We'll see in a few days whether the tracking polls reflect any real movement based on the debate - the reaction of a small group in one location is tough to peg as a bellweather. The whole jobs vs. minimum wage vs. immigration policy conundrum is problematic for both candidates, not to mention the rest of us. There are so many permutations & combinations, the issue does not lend itself well to a 2-minute debate question. You'd
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This is shaping up as an interesting campaign in regard to the relationship between the debates and how people vote. This may turn out to be the first time that the media's declared winner of all 3 debates loses the election. The polls about who won the debates seem completely disconnected from the polls about who is preferred for President. We'll see. Sure sign that Kerry's is in trouble - Jesse Jackson on Fox trying to backfill for him.
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Personally, I think the job makes the man. No other way to explain how we've had so many rise to the occasion during times of crisis. Surprisingly cynical of you, Drag. The flip side of your argument is that who the President is doesn't really matter in the big picture. And that may be more true than we like to think. I detect a note of "political fatigue" in your comments - deflating from the Lester Holt thing, maybe. <img src="../images/
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Conventional wisdom was stood on its head again tonight. It was Kerry who stepped in it, so to speak, when Bush was the one thought more likely to do so. McAwful is just tap-dancing like crazy - Hannity is just browbeating the hell out of him. It's great. Cheers, Daiwa
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I think there's only one camera guy and all the networks feed off of it. At least he caught some of Kerry's flustered looks. Cheers, Daiwa
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I hope enough undecideds are not baseball fans & saw this. Bush's best performance by far, in terms of both substance and style. He was the kind of person you would feel comfortable sitting next to at the backyard barbecue. You got the impression that he understood what being a real person is about. Ironic, really, when you recall the bar-code-scanner fiasco during 41's second campaign. Kerry came off as the Ivy League dilettante to Bush's common
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The Cheney daughter comment is really frosting people, apparently. A definite case of Kerry shooting himself in the foot. IMHO = geekspeak for in my humble opinion, BTW (by the way ) Cheers, Daiwa
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Many of the "illegals" that we have to deal with in the school district are "multiple offenders." That means they've made more than one crossing. Iris ID could curb this. I'm really divided on this issue, I love my kids that make it here -- but iris ID is something that they are scared of, from my conversations with students.</TD
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I also noticed that even on Fox, they kept the camera on Bush during Kerry's answers far more than they did on Kerry during Bush's answers. Brit Hume's guys, who felt Bush lost the first two debates, are giving Bush an eigth round knockout. Quite a difference. Cheers, Daiwa
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If you ask me, Schiefer saved CBS's bacon. I think Bush came across as much more confident & comfortable than in even the second debate. Kerry came across as negative, negative, negative; Bush as positive, positive, positive. No knockout punch for Kerry. Cheers, Daiwa
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And then Kerry mentions John McCain twice in one answer. You noticed that? Like I said, pander, pander, pander. Cheers, Daiwa
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Folks coming over the border fear this type of scrutiny. It's true. Can it ever happen? Should it? I don't know. The problem is you have to have the iris scan or fingerprint on file to match against. That's why it is such a dumb idea. It's completely ludicrous to consider that sort of technology as a
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What the hell does iris identification have to do with stopping illegal immigration? That business about iris scans and fingerprint ID at the border was the dumbest thing Kerry's ever said. I couldn't believe it. His whole shtick tonite is pander, pander, pander. Cheers, Daiwa
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I'm not saying he made it up, just that all he's done is report a rumor - he's done nothing to confirm it as best I can tell. He could have been right a thousand times before, doesn't matter. We're not talking about Hersh's rep, we're talking about whether an event happened or not. Cheers, Daiwa
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More I think about this, the more pathetic it is. If , and it's a very, very big if , this really happened, I'll be right there to say those soldiers disgraced the uniform and should be dealt with appropriately. I almost hate to hedge at all, though - this just smells to high heaven. blogic shows the occasional flash of objectivity and/or humor, but recently he's scared shitless Kerry may lose and is throwing anything and everyth
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I read through Leopold's full article and there's nothing in it to substantiate his bald claims. He just says what he wants. Not a shred of proof, not even circumstantial evidence. And it's so easy to do a hatchet job on someone by taking sound bites out of context (both sides do it); Leopold has done one here for the sole purpose of making Cheney look bad, a rather desperate move if you ask me. I know nothing about com
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Nice try. When Seymour has facts , rather than unconfirmed hysterics, let us know. Cheers, Daiwa
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I should have been a bit more clear: He was referring to para- & quadriplegics when he said that. Cheers, Daiwa
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Will does not bother to defend the higher costs of private universities as opposed to state institutions. Uh, Steve - Last I checked, the reason "state" institutions have lower costs (assuming you mean tuition; not sure what else you'd mean) is that they are taxpayer-subsidized and made less e
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This also just in. We all thought John Edwards was a lawyer, but apparently we were wrong. Appears he's actually a televangelist - he was on TV yesterday, speaking to a small crowd about Chris Reeve, promising that if we just elect John Kerry, people will be getting up out of their wheelchairs & walking. This is not a joke. (Well, OK it is a sick joke; but it's factual - how's that?) Some of the most ridiculous pande
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No, no, BakerStreet - that was Nuke LaLouche . And Bahu obviously has 1) no clue what our Constitution requires, and 2) no clue . Cheers, Daiwa
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"Whacked out" with fear or possessing a "rational" fear? Sometimes it makes perfect sense to be fearful. The cold reality can hardly be dismissed - the terrorists have demonstrated they are capable of anything . And the Chechen separatists may have either opened their eyes to possiblities or borrowed from their playbook. How could we not take something like this seriously? Courage, after all, is not the absence of fear,
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It's a long and proud tradition, Steve. I'm thinking back to the image of a beautiful little girl, sitting out in a field on a gorgeous day picking the petals off a daisy, dissolving into the image of a mushroom cloud. The tradition goes back a lot farther, to the founding, for that matter, but that one seems the finest example to date, at least during my lifetime. The Republicans are finally starting to get up to speed, though. <img src="../images
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CrispE - My comment had to do with whether oil is presently overpriced and will likely fall to something lower than it is at some point - I happen to agree that it is and will. It could climb higher still before dropping again, but I think it will come down - there hasn't been that sudden an increase in demand and the disruptions in production are likely to be temporary. Iraq is pretty much at pre-war production now. I don't believe it will
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