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

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (74260)	3/6/2006 7:06:58 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 81568

He had guts. But does he have them now? I don't think so. Both Edwards and Kerry gave concession speeches. I believe that Edwards was given first. Orca

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (74260)	3/7/2006 11:25:29 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You're right, Kerry failed to anticipate the smearvets campaign. That was his one big mistake. And I for one tried to warn him. Kerry believed that the truth would win out. He was partly wrong. On the other hand, I spoke to Anne Richards who was also a victim of a Rove smear campaign. She told me that you're damned if you do damned if you don't, in terms of responding directly to a smear campaign. If you take the smear jockeys on directly, they gain prominence. Sadly though the press gave smearvets prominence anyway, which was outrageous and sad. Those smearvets didn't tell the truth a single time. The new congress in November should make smear campaigns illegal. Some kind of truth in advertising needs to be applied to politics just like it is dishwashing detergent and automobiles.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (74260)	3/8/2006 8:16:47 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 81568

chinu...could be that bin laden has been found? Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat Friday, 24 February 2006, news.bbc.co.uk A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi. "We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said. Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat. "When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up". Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case. "They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.