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To: LindyBill who wrote (81892)	10/29/2004 10:10:20 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793755

John Kerry Gets Desperate By Captain Ed on Presidential Election I can't find any other explanation for John Kerry's primal-scream campaigning in Orlando this afternoon except for desperation as the election blessedly winds down to its final hours. Reuters reports that Kerry went "off script" and told America that anyone not voting for him must be unconscious: Kerry also blasted Bush on the economy, taxes, jobs and health care, saying the Republican incumbent had "walked away from the basic bargain" that Americans who worked hard should have the chance to get ahead and chosen his powerful friends over the middle class. "Wake up America, wake up. ... You have a choice," he said. "This election is a choice between four more years of tax giveaways for millionaires along with a higher tax burden on the middle class." Somehow I think that telling people they're asleep is not the best way to make them like you.

To: LindyBill who wrote (81892)	10/29/2004 10:27:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793755

I think everyone has been missing the main point of OBL's tapes. They are (I devoutly hope) a rhetorical substitute for action. Osama doesn't really have The Big One to spring, so he's doing the tapes instead. This substitution of rhetoric for action happens a lot in the Arab world, so I hope that's what happening here.