Politics
I’m glad these debates are over and done. I’m not sure what compelled me to watch them all. Life is too short.
Anyway, I’m loathe to admit it but I do believe Bush pulled it off last night. He definitely presented himself better than before. He was energetic, up beat, and had many of his [...]
Kerry 1, Bush, 0.
So by my count, that’s Kerry/Edwards 3, Bush/Cheney 0. I just can’t imagine how anyone who really paid attention to the debate last night could conclude that Kerry didn’t prove his superiority over the issues and the facts. On shear intellect, Kerry is the hands-down master. So unless you base your judgment [...]
Edwards 1, Cheney 0.
Interesting sideline: at one point during the debate Cheney cited factcheck.com as a place to get the details on Cheney’s current relationship with Halliburton. He must have really meant to say factcheck.org. The .com address is a placeholder for George Soros’ blog, the subtitle of which is, “Why we must not re-elect [...]
This morning, in the context of an NPR report on the Bush Administration’s actions to replace federally-funded sex education and drug rehabilitation programs with faith-based programs, a spokesperson for a faith-based organization used the term “extreme secularists” to describe the opposition. I laughed out loud when I heard that because, of course, it conjures up [...]
John Perry Barlow expresses nicely his thinking on Bush vs Kerry:
I’m having a moment of clarity. I realize the obvious. I realize that, along with a lot of other people, I have fallen prey to the peculiar American frailty which has given us so many bad presidents. I refer to our national tendency to treat [...]
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