This campaign season is depressing me.

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This campaign season is depressing me.
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Thu, 09-09-2004 - 1:48am
Convention visits to the World Trade Center site... Fenced protest zones (on both sides, yes I know)... Purple heart *BAND-AIDS*... If I see one more misleading/patronizing TV ad, I think I might puke. Anyone else find any of this incredibly offensive, or am I all alone? Glad to get this off my chest, even if no one agrees with me! ;-)

Christine

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Registered: 03-30-2003
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 7:25am
Im with you on this one.

I cant believe people are more interested in someones "records" from 30 years ago then they are with the current hot issues.

Homeland security

Education

Taxes

Healthcare

Doesnt anyone care about these issues? Or are they so consumed with the "Im a war hero and the other guy didnt even serve." business.

I fear for this country. I really really do.

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 8:11am
The last time Kerry was in the public eye we had the same turmoil in America. This is somthing that I would have preferred forgetting, but Kerry's presence on the scene, it seems, brings out all the wierdos in droves. With a Kerry presidency you would have to endure all this nonesence for four long years.
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Registered: 07-12-2001
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 9:21am
I agree with both of you!!! I can't believe we are spending so much time on this board debating their war records. Let's talk about the issues that matter for a change!

Bev

girl in chair
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Fri, 09-10-2004 - 2:00am
From where I sit, there's been quite a bit of national turmoil in the last few years too, since well before Kerry's campaign began. Personally, I am not going to hold a grudge against anyone who speaks up to tell the truth as they see it on issues of importance, be it now or years ago. I would much rather listen to that than this "You're with Bush or you're against America, end of discussion" campaign theme. I am really looking forward to the debates - maybe then we could actually hear a conversation between the candidates about something that matters.

>>>The last time Kerry was in the public eye we had the same turmoil in America. This is >somthing that I would have preferred forgetting, but Kerry's presence on the scene, it >seems, brings out all the wierdos in droves. With a Kerry presidency you would have to >endure all this nonesence for four long years.

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Registered: 07-20-2003
Fri, 09-10-2004 - 5:29am
I'm looking forward to the debates as well.

Apparently the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis is causing concern for Bush and his advisors:

>> "President George W. Bush's campaign is refusing to confirm or deny reports that he might decline to participate in the St. Louis forum.

"Nothing has been ruled in. Nothing has been ruled out," Bush campaign spokesman Danny Diaz said. "The discussion has just begun."

A report in Wednesday's Washington Post, citing a "presidential adviser" who "refused to be identified to avoid annoying Bush," noted a preference for two other presidential forums - set in Florida and Arizona - because of their targeted focus on domestic and foreign policy issues.

The Oct. 8 debate in St. Louis would be a more free-wheeling town hall forum where undecided voters, chosen by the Gallup polling organization, would ask questions to the candidates directly. << STLtoday.com

Bush isn't afraid of facing the public with unscripted questions is he?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The schedule according to http://www.debates.org/pages/news_040813.html

First presidential debate:

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL

Thursday, September 30

Jim Lehrer

Anchor and Executive Editor, The NewsHour, PBS

Vice presidential debate:

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, OH

Tuesday, October 5

Gwen Ifill

Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator, Washington Week, PBS

Second presidential debate:

Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO

Friday, October 8

Charles Gibson

Co-Anchor, ABC News Good Morning America

Third presidential debate:

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

Wednesday, October 13

Bob Schieffer

CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Moderator, Face the Nation

Each debate shall begin at 9:00 p.m. EDT.


Format

The format for the debates, as announced on June 17, 2004, shall be as follows:

* Each debate shall have a single moderator and last for 90 minutes.

* In the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate the candidates shall be seated with the moderator at a table.

* The first presidential debate shall focus primarily on domestic policy and the third presidential debate shall focus primarily on foreign policy. The second presidential debate shall be held as a town meeting in which citizens will pose questions to the candidates. The vice presidential debate shall cover both foreign and domestic policy topics.

* There shall be no opening statements; there shall be two-minute closing statements.

* The order of questioning and closing statements shall be determined by coin toss.

* The moderator's job in the first and third presidential debates and the vice presidential debate will be to introduce and change topics, to ensure that the participants have equal time, and to encourage some direct exchange among the candidates. The moderators will select all topics and questions.

* In the second presidential debate, the town meeting participants will pose their questions to the candidates. The town meeting participants will review their questions with the moderator before the debate for the sole purpose of avoiding duplicate questions. The participants in the town meeting, to be chosen by the Gallup Organization, will be undecided voters from the St. Louis, Missouri, standard metropolitan statistical area.

* The moderators will have discretion to ask follow-up questions in all debates.

* Each debate shall take place before a live audience.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-10-2004 - 6:10am
It's going to get worse.


Elaine

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Fri, 09-10-2004 - 7:26am
WAHHH!!

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Fri, 09-10-2004 - 7:55am

Absolutely agree.

The first key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.  -
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Registered: 07-12-2001
Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:15am
"I feel there is no candidate worthy of being elected."

You know, that's pretty much how I feel at this point. Sorry to say, for me it's a matter of choosing between the devil I know and the one I don't.

Bev

girl in chair
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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 6:48pm
Dear cburn9,

Cheer right up- America shall have a new President, John Kerry,

and once again business shall roar

as America once again repays the phenomonal debts

chalked-up by Republicans' 'trickle-down-ecomomy' lies ...

tune in for the Presidential Debates, because that is likely the only chance we all have as voters to hear these candidates confront one another,

and at last the truth of these past four years shall be voiced for America to consider.

"Are you better off today than you were four years ago,"

is the standard question each Presidential election year,

and America is demonstrably much worse off after these past four years ...

Negativity / Positivity is relative, and bias built into each listener

leaves some people open to read these words I have written to you,

as EITHER positive OR negative- depending upon one's own experience-

My focus is upon the positive four or more years ahead,

in post-Bush America, because I believe that history IS repeating itself:

just as in 1992, when America elected business-positive Democrats,

and repaired the nation's Bush1 debts and built budget surpluses,

America shall again elect pro-business Democrats (John Kerry)

and rebuild a positive American economic base.

I do not believe that the US Supreme Court would again appoint as

President of these United States of America,

a candidate known to have lost the election by more than one half million American votes.

(Leaving American claims about our elective system of governmentopen to international ridicule.)

ForeverHugs,

--Genie



ForeverHugs,

--Genie

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