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To: Amy J who wrote (176944)	2/8/2004 10:34:36 AM
From: hueyone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<<Neither candidates appear to have Clinton's sophisticated level of awareness for international issues so our country could be at a huge risk here.>> Thanks for your comments Amy. I thought Clinton was much better domestically than internationally. In my opinion, Clinton put our country at huge risk by presiding over the erosion of our intelligence gathering operations, failing to take action against Osama Bin Laden when he had the chance, and abdicating the responsiblity to confront the rise in world terrorism during his administration. He didn't see what was developing and really dropped the ball on this. Having said that, I would prefer Bill Clinton to Bush going forward as someone probably more likely to be able to effectively build international consensus to tackle world problems. In general, I think he is a smarter fellow than Bush and the current crop of democratic hopefuls, including his spouse that is trying to ride on his coattails.<g> JMO, Huey

To: Amy J who wrote (176944)	2/8/2004 11:37:05 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Thanks for your thoughts AmyJ. Kerry favors providing a manufacturing jobs credit. (What about software?) There is no real need to give a software jobs credit, the US software industry is already more competitive than asia with the most conservative study showing 10% fewer bugs in US created code. Some studies show 40% fewer bugs. Plus with the US media expertise etc, it is difficult to make a case for offshore software as superior. From a business standpoint, the free market has responded to the offshore software threat with open source which will probably deal a fatal blow to microsoft and oracle anyway. Open source commoditizes "coding" and puts all the value add onto implementation and service. The biggest problem the US software industry has right now (I am including only open source and a few smaller companies as truly US), is federal government favoritism towards these huge offshore R&D firms. If the US government stopped awarding contracts to offshore software producers like IBM, MSFT and instead went with Linux that would take care of the problem.

To: Amy J who wrote (176944)	2/8/2004 2:27:39 PM
From: Robert O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

ot response to ot post Amy, I saw a bumper sticker recently that stated: WHEN WOMEN VOTE, DEMOCRATS WIN Car was parked with no driver visible for clues, so wasn't sure if this was tounge-in-cheek. LOL RO