As the Election Nears, Sometimes I Feel Like Diogenes

So it is obvious to me where your heart is, if you enjoy the charade, just keep it up, just know that this girl ain't buying it.

Harper- I started this thread, which asked about what people thought about the RNC documentary. Period. You have turned it around, to espouse your particular political agenda. I do not plan to respond to your questions.

Unfortunately, this is not Eisenhower versus Stevenson, or even Carter versus Ford. What we have in this election is cancer versus heart disease.

As I see it, the voter's job in November is damage control. Which man (together with his political beliefs, and gaggle of advisors) will do the country the less harm?

We have all seen what Bush has done in his first term. I do not imagine a second Bush term would be significantly different. But I fear and tremble at the thought of a Kerry administration.

Jim- You said it much better than me. Thanks!

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So it is obvious to me where your heart is, if you enjoy the charade, just keep it up, just know that this girl ain't buying it.

You are entitled to your opinion. For me, that is the end of our discussion!

As James Madison wrote in 1798, "The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has, accordingly, with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature." This republican legislature, in a knee-jerk reaction, transended the warnings of history by vesting responsibility for war within the one seat of power, the administration of the president. I do believe that (not unlike the Tonkin Gulf incident) the future and lives of americans everywhere are more fraught with the loss of the very basis of democracy, a carefully devised separation of powers.

We have all seen what Bush has done in his first term. I do not imagine a second Bush term would be significantly different. But I fear and tremble at the thought of a Kerry administration.

Harper- I am going to say one last thing to you. I don't think that you have any idea as to how to accomplish what you are attempting to accomplish..................convince people that Kerry is the right person for the job. All you are doing is engendering hostility by attacking. My dear, you are shooting yourself in the foot!

FD - if he follows the Platform issued by the Democratic Convention that would be bad enough.

Specifically - higher taxes, more spending (throwing money at problems just for the sake of buying votes), more far-left-of-center Federal Judges and Supreme Court Justices, more counter productive regulations slapped together by lawyers who have never worked on a shop floor, etc ad nauseum.

Jim wrote:

FD - if he follows the Platform issued by the Democratic Convention that would be bad enough.

Specifically - higher taxes, more spending (throwing money at problems just for the sake of buying votes), more far-left-of-center Federal Judges and Supreme Court Justices, more counter productive regulations slapped together by lawyers who have never worked on a shop floor, etc ad nauseum.

Well, personally my taxes were never cut by Bush so I don't expect them to be raised by Kerry.

How is it your taxes weren't cut? No kids?

How is it your taxes weren't cut? No kids?