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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (33941)	7/6/2004 9:12:36 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I don't have much of an opinion concerning the Waco situation as I have not studied it. I lean toward the opinion that the government was in the right though. They had plenty of time to surrender and have their day in court. I thought she was also right in sending the boy back to Cuba. Ruby Ridge is another situation like Waco in which I don't know a whole lot about. I think there were mistakes made in all 3 cases but all in all when you compare Reno to Ashcroft I think Reno looks much much better. Ashcroft is pushing too hard for powers which this administration can not be trusted with.

To: lorne who wrote (33941)	7/6/2004 9:21:08 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

A formidable ticket. And this is why. The Big Decision The wisdom of picking Edwards. By William Saletan Posted Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 9:29 AM PT Kerry's best salesman Think about this for a minute: He left college, and he volunteered three different ways. First he volunteered for military service. Then he volunteered to serve in Vietnam. And then he volunteered for some of the most dangerous, hazardous duty you could possibly have in Vietnam. As a result, he was wounded multiple times. He won a whole series of medals while he was there. And now—this is an amazing thing—a vice president of the United States who avoided service four, five, six times—I've lost count—[and] a president of the United States who can't account for a year of his national guard service are attacking John Kerry for the medals he won in Vietnam? You have got to be kidding me. That's John Edwards talking about John Kerry at a Florida Democratic Party fund-raiser three weeks ago. This is why Kerry had to pick Edwards: Kerry sounds so much more attractive when Edwards is doing the talking. Five months ago, after watching Kerry strut his stuff in New Hampshire—such as it was—I warned that Democrats were on the verge of nominating a guy who had plenty of selling points but couldn't make the sale himself. How was this mediocre campaigner attracting voters? The answer, it turned out, was that he wasn't attracting them. It was Kerry's sales force—Ted Kennedy, former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, Iowa's first lady Christie Vilsack, and others—that was doing this job so well. The problem with this arrangement, I thought, was that the candidate would eventually have to stand and fight alone. "If you nominate Kerry, you don't get the sales force," I wrote. "You just get him." contd. at....http://slate.msn.com/id/2103432/?GT1=4244