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To: scott blomquist who started this subject10/4/2000 10:31:28 AM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
(Off Topic) Humor and the Debates

My take on the debate last night was that George W. Bush has potential. He would have made a nice VP candidate in a MCCain run at the presidency. But George has a very small act, a one suitcase act. Too bad he wants to give away 1.4 trillion of the Social Security tax surplus as a tax cut to Mr. Young and his friends. Sorry George its an idea that makes no economic sense.

Gore comes across as having a Pullman car full of suitcases. He certainly caught Georgie on his failure to understand that Putin (ex KGB now Russian Czar) is not our friend and can't just be told to do our bidding. Not an employee or lackey George, head of another superpower. Unfortunately Gore let some of his smugness show. Not that Bush didn't deserve it because Georgie is sarcastic as can be with his lessers. But I don't vote on smugness.

Clearly of the two Gore is the choice. Bush has been moved forward too fast and too soon by his handlers. And his handlers are probably all contemporaries of Mr. Young and Mr. Chaney.

At least Gore computes. And actually he has much more potential than that poor excuse for a President we have now.

So I think what happens now is not the undecided going for Gore but actually more Republicans going for Gore, based largely upon the small size of that suitcase of ideas that George carries around.

One last note: It wasn't nice that they barred Ralph Nader from the debate hall even though he had a ticket. That smacks of Russian style totalitarianism. What did they think, that a 65 year old Nader was a security risk.

PS. Neither candidate seemed to acknowledge that if you give away the SS surplus as George would in the form of tax cuts or you pay down the debt as a way of prolonging the systems life span, eventually the system goes broke or doesn't fulfill its original purpose. Solving that problem is the real challenge. I guess George was partying during Reagans supply side deficit era. I suspect he is a captive of the destroy SS wing of the Republican Party. (got to filter out some of those bad ideas George)

But Gore better take another look at that Washington insider smugness. No Al you don't have all the answers. Can't wait to see what you do when they blow up in your face. They will.

But you do have the ability to pick good people to advise you --- like Eric Schmidt. I'm counting on that ability (call it the FDR factor) with my vote.
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