My $.02 on the debate this A.M.
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My $.02 on the debate this A.M.
| Fri, 10-01-2004 - 9:15am |
So from what I got from the debate...
Bush is tired. (I can imagine that spending the day with hurricane victims and relief workers can be pretty draining, what did Kerry do all day? I can only imagine.)
Kerry did better than I expected, although, I completely disagree with him.
One thing really stood out...Kerry wants to deal one-on-one with Kim Jong Il and leave out important allies like China and South Korea, and yet says the war in Iraq is a bust b/c we don't have enough allied support?!?
Just shows me that Kerry will disagree with ANYTHING the President supports and support anything Bush disagrees with.
Hey, it'll give the "anybody but Bush" crowd a boner!

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I've been looking and looking for his itinerary that states that he spend the day at the spa. Please show me your source (not that I care where Kerry spent his day preparing for the debate)....I just want to make sure that these claims being repeated over and over are indeed true and not another rumour gone wild.
It's sadder with hockey (because we think of it as OUR sport) but even if every single person in our sparsely populated country were die-hard fans there's no way we can compete with big American business. In some ways with the hockey situation we are victims of our own success. At one point only Canada and northern American (Boston, Philedelphia etc....) teams dominated the league. Now we've managed to successfully sell the sport of hockey to the rest of the Americans and being the skilled cpaitalists that they are, knew a good investment when they saw one. I don't even see it as the US "stealing" a Canadian team....it's more like we are selling out. The reality is, we cannot sustain the huge salaries and perks offered to our players by American business and it's hard to blame someone for going to where the money is or a team being sold rather than cease to exist. It's sad though that the old concept of loyalty to the team (and the fans) is being replaced by loyalty to one's pocketbook. Perhaps one could say that the US is trying to steal our best players....once the best players go, the team stops being the great team that it once was.
At least with hockey a great number of the players on American teams are Canadian. When Florida won the Stanely Cup (auuuurrrgh! how CRAZY is that????) some of the Canadian players got to bring the cup to their hometowns. Even if they played for Florida, we loved them anyway.
Sorry, don't have a link, I heard a network news story before the debate that he got a manicure in his hotel's spa. And it's really of no consequence to me either, but I do think he would have been smarter not to have done so.
< Sorry, don't have a link, I heard a network news story before the debate that he got a manicure in his hotel's spa. And it's really of no consequence to me either, but I do think he would have been smarter not to have done so. >
Did I say he spent the entire day at the spa? No. I said he spent the afternoon at the spa. Yes, I do think he would have been smarter to get his manicure in the privacy of his room, and I have no idea, nor any interest, in whether Bush gets his nails done or not. It's not a question of what I personally approve, as I've said several times I really don't care. It's a question of how it looks to others-someone trying to portray himself as the champion of the middle class having his nails done at the hotel spa while his opponent greeted hurricane victims. A bad political move, IMO. But in the end it didn't really matter, because he did well enough at the debate to take the focus off of that little gaffe.
I do talk about real issues, but I also find it entertaining sometimes to talk about the quirky little aspects of politics. You of course are free to talk about whatever you choose.
Heaven forbid we should get ourselves a president who doesn't come by his tan honestly (by wasting hours of his time baking in the carcenigenic sun).
You are so right on and you make me smile. Kerry shows his intelligence, once again, by choosing the bottle over the carcinogenic type of tan. LOL.
"Patriotism means to stand by the Country. It does not mean to stand by the President." -- Theodore Roosevelt.
"Patriotism means to stand by the Country. It does not mean to stand by the President." -- Theodore Roosevelt.
It was also the same strategy that the Carter administration used with Iran in dealing with their nuclear ambitions. Look where that has us now too.
Kerry cannot see what is happening even though the events are unfolding right before his very eyes.
The ONLY way to deal with North Korea is to have China, Russia, Japan, South Korea put diplomatic and economic pressures on North Korea. Only then will Kim Jung Il realize that if he continues in his current quest, he will be doing so alone.
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