Brand X wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:kuvasz wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:All that not withstanding; John Edwards is a scumbag.
takes one to know one
How might you know that?
some of us are gifted with hindsight
There is little doubt that this is a referendum on Bush's term in office. IMO It has been a monumental failure. As in any sport or business failed coaches and CEO's are replaced, so too should the abject failure in the oval office be replaced. Will Kerry be better, that remains to be seen. IMO he will be, however, as the saying goes the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In any event a change in direction is absolutely necessary. One that will never occur with an individual in office who cannot recognize mistakes or errors in judgment. I am not sure whether he is resolute, arrogant, stubborn or just stupid. In my opinion he is both stubborn and stupid.
'The people holding their noses while voting this November will not all be folks voting for Kerry...not by any means.'
I won't argue that. Hell, I was against the idea of going to Iraq from the start. I think Bush has done quite a few things with which I disagree.
I know I can't vote for Kerry because he doesn't have political courage. If he did, he would have never waffled around about Iraq, but he has. He knows in his heart that given the intelligence we had about Iraq at the time, his vote was 100% correct. But he won't stand behind it...except sometimes.
We will need more courage than that going forward.
willow_tl wrote:Brand X wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:kuvasz wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:All that not withstanding; John Edwards is a scumbag.
takes one to know one
How might you know that?
some of us are gifted with hindsight
Is that anything like hind end sight?
OCCOM BILL wrote:willow_tl wrote:Brand X wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:kuvasz wrote:OCCOM BILL wrote:All that not withstanding; John Edwards is a scumbag.
takes one to know one
How might you know that?
some of us are gifted with hindsight
Is that anything like hind end sight?
If that means i know a good ass when i see one..turn around love... :wink:
Oh! He's coming out as a bi-sexual and trying to make us jealous that he gets twice the sex.
<He's going to be competition. He will flirt with TWICE the people I can flirt with.>
Lash wrote:Oh! He's coming out as a bi-sexual and trying to make us jealous that he gets twice the sex.
<He's going to be competition. He will flirt with TWICE the people I can flirt with.>
Um, ah, whom are you referring to as "he"? Is there something I should know... and don't?
Oh....
I must have mis-assigned a sex part again.
<nevermind>
I hope so!
... because it would appear one of us have...
neue regel wrote:'The people holding their noses while voting this November will not all be folks voting for Kerry...not by any means.'
I won't argue that. Hell, I was against the idea of going to Iraq from the start. I think Bush has done quite a few things with which I disagree.
I know I can't vote for Kerry because he doesn't have political courage. If he did, he would have never waffled around about Iraq, but he has. He knows in his heart that given the intelligence we had about Iraq at the time, his vote was 100% correct. But he won't stand behind it...except sometimes.
We will need more courage than that going forward.
Changing tactics when the situation calls for it...
...is sometimes referred to as "waffling"...
...by people who don't have the courage to admit mistakes and to change their mind when it is appropriate...
...and by people who support those courageless people.
Today's endorsement of John Kerry by the New York Times is a gem.
Hope you can get through using this link...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/opinion/17sun1.html?th
Comprehensive bit of writing there, thanks Frank, I hope everyone will read it.
I had forgotten about how people hoped, because he had been put in office with no clear mandate, that Bush would try to find a way to govern from the middle. If was himself, afterall, who said he was a uniter not a divider, then came his choice of John Ashcroft, his mis-use of Whitman, the insistence on giant tax cuts and on and on.
and that was before he lost the world's, and our, admiration over his conduct of the War on Terror(ism).
He's fired.
Joe
'Changing tactics when the situation calls for it... '
IMO, Kerry hasn't talked about tactics, let alone change his mind about them. He cannot answer the fundamental question about the need to go into Iraq. He has said both yes and no....and when finally pressed, said it 'depends what the outcome is...'
