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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (197431)8/11/2004 12:43:54 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1573720
 
>That hardly makes for a strong stance one way or the other. For war but against funding?

Hell, I woulda been a lot more for the war if I believed for one minute that it wasn't going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars... I wish that Kerry had saw the costs of the war in the first place, but lots of people were duped by the administration.

>Voting one way or another as a "matter of principle," knowing something was going to pass anyway?

Happens all of the time... it's part of politics... it's why millions of people vote for Ralph Nader every year.

>There is no conviction behind any of his votes, except his desire to stick his finger up in the air to figure out which way the wind is blowing.

Politicians do that... remember Leave No Child Behind? How about Bush's AIDS bill or hydrogen cars. It happens. Every politician plays to his audience. Every politician is a "flip-flopper." This is one of the reasons I have a strong disdain for our political process.

This "flip-flopper" thing is ridiculous -- the Republicans had nothing on Kerry, so they more or less accused him of being a politician... of course he is! So is every one of them!

-Z
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