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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (18900)	8/16/2004 11:00:55 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

g'morning ChinuSFO why did you sit quietly in 2000?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (18900)	8/16/2004 12:02:20 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 173976

"After listening to John Kerry's acceptance address...I did a little experiment. ... I edited out phony religiosity and pointless political platitudes of the sort that could be used byany politician in any situation, including Hitler (i.e., "We're the optimists"). I also chopped out all gratuitous flag-waving all forced and hollow tough-talking, and all draping of the clearly unworthy self in the ill-fitting cloak of the great figures of history. Further down the line were the intellectual crimes. Lies went out right away, but I also cut out things that were not lies exactly, but mere words. Also banished were the many species of literary fraud -- from facile generalizations to redundancies to such crass, hypersentimental, factory-generated cliches as 'trees [are] the cathedrals of nature.' There were also many shades of disingenuousness to deal with, most of which came into play when Kerry levied attacks against George Bush. ... When I was done cutting, there were only two lines left. 'I was born in Colorado. America can do better. Amen'. " --Matt Taibbi

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (18900)	8/16/2004 12:04:10 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"John Kerry is too strange to be president. I don't mean 'strange' in the way of his predecessor, Al Gore, the first Android-American to run for president.... [W]ith Kerry, even before any gaffes or scandals, the official narrative makes no sense. He's publicly opposed to the Vietnam War. But he volunteers for it. Then he comes back disgusted with his experience in war, publicly hurls his medals away (or someone else's: that story keeps changing), denounces his fellow veterans as war criminals, torturers and rapists, and claims that he personally committed atrocities. But then he decides to run for president and suddenly Jane Fonda morphs into John Wayne and all those war criminals are war heroes he wants at every rally and he's got his medals back and his disgust at his wartime experience has mysteriously turned into pride in his wartime experience to the exclusion of all else. If Steven Spielberg...got a script like that, [he]'d send it to rewrite. Either that or [he]'d figure [he]'d got an early, rejected draft of the new Manchurian Candidate. That's what people mean when they talk about how 'complex' and 'nuanced' Kerry is. They don't mean his positions on the great questions of the day are complex and nuanced. Quite the contrary. ... If Kerry had exhibited the slightest trace of any interestingly complex view of any policy matter, you can be sure we'd have heard about it. But he hasn't. So the only 'complex' aspect of the Kerry campaign is the man himself, who's complex in ways that don't seem entirely healthy." --Mark Steyn