You can practice assertiveness and get a better result than bludgeoning aggression. Try the later if you're trying to sell anything. You'd lose a lot of customers. We each are trying to sell our own ideas about a subject, right? Not someone else's out of a book, but our own opinion? I like the idea of letting the politicians and the pundits fight their wars (often in their petty little ways) and we just have some fun fencing and not trying to draw any blood.
Some egos may bleed, but it should heal quickly.
Hey, in the period I concentrate on, bleeding was therapeutic!
A few pin pricks at some over-inflated egos and you can hear them popping. As to bleeding, leeches were the preferable technique, right, hobitbob?
So, guys.
Who has the greater ability to take Bush down---Clark, Dean, Kerry?
Get rid of some bad blood -
Ability or charisma? I haven't seen an election won on the basis of ability in my lifetime.
What else are you given when voting for the ruler of the world
TV is the stage of today and one must know how to preform
Somewhere in the distant past, I've heard many reasons why we vote for presidential candidates, and they vary from looks, easy name to remember, like the way they talk, and because they belong to the same party. Rarely that the candidate has the skills to understand domesitic and foreign policy issues. That's the reason why candidates live on sound bites, because they know it's the way American People vote. Kind'a sad, huh?
Kucinish was in town today,a dn spoke at Auraria to about 20 or so people. I was
not impressed. he spent a great deal of time bashing Bush and Dean equally. I got bored and left.
Hmmmm ... The Ten Little Indians as medicinal leeches, huh? Interesting concept. It seems to me Clark's meteoric rise among "The Faithful" following his dark-horse, and late, entry into the lists cleary indicates the overall weakness of the Democratic Party's campaign. In reference to polls, I see more a current dissatisfaction with particular aspects of Bush the Younger's performance than any upswell of support for the Democratic Party or any of its candidates-elect. I note too that while the Democrats have been in full-out campaign mode for months, Bush the Younger, with a far better financed, more cohesive campaign machine behind him, has not yet begun to fight. I figure there's more bite in that dog than in the whole pack chasin' him, and he's wiley enough to let that pack whittle itself down some in the chase before takin' on the survivors.
True, Timber, Bushy-Poo II is going out of his way to buy this election.
Oh, I wouldn't say he's ought to buy it, bob ... but I figure he can sell his re-election a lot better than the Democrats will be able to sell his defeat.
'Course, I gotta admit he did a crappy job of sellin' the Iraq intervention.
anyone remember the dog eat dog, splattered entrails of the Bush/McCain conflict?
"McCain ran a spot implying that Bush sets aside no money from the budget surplus for Social Security. Not so, Bush said, so...
--Bush ran an ad accusing McCain of distorting the facts. "John McCain's ad about Governor Bush isn't true and McCain knows it," the announcer intoned. McCain said it was filled with half truths, so ...
--McCain released his new ad, featuring footage of an early Bush spot where he promises to run a positive campaign, then footage of the handshake, then footage from last week's attack ad. It ends: "Do we really want another politician in the White House America can't trust?"
Even as it prepares its own spot featuring that same handshake, the Bush camp is crying foul over the new McCain salvo.
"Suggesting that Governor Bush is as dishonest as Bill Clinton is a disservice to our party and our principles," Fleischer said in a statement. "Our nation has been through enough and John McCain's ad has gone too far."
As for McCain's offer to pull his ads if Bush will do the same, Fleischer said that the Bush campaign had not yet been formally approached.
Meanwhile, Bush is also contemplating new ads that hit McCain for his role in the Keating Five case, when he and four other senators were accused of improperly intervening with federal banking regulators on behalf of a wealthy developer, as well as ads on taxes and public financing of elections, an adviser said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
For his part, McCain says he won't hold back.
"We won't just respond, we will respond doubly. There will be a price to pay and we will have a lot of fun while we're doing it," McCain told reporters Monday. "We can play as rough as anybody."
CNN 2/08/2000
