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To: Lane3 who wrote (16959)	4/21/2006 10:56:08 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541877

CNBC has a debate right now "Economy vs. Environment" between a Greenpeace guy and an American Enterprise Institute spokesman. That's all we get - a zero-sum debate between two partisan opposites to inform us more about the political debate. It's all bankrupt. Maybe I should rename this thread "Had Enough!", LOL.

To: Lane3 who wrote (16959)	4/21/2006 11:30:49 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541877

Building the Frankencandidate Very interesting piece. I thought about posting it when I read it this week but then forgot. Switching from Windows to the Mac is taking more concentation and focus than I had anticipated.

To: Lane3 who wrote (16959)	4/25/2006 6:43:38 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541877

Of course in the real world you have to run real people not mish-mashes of what you consider the best qualities of a dozen different people from different areas of life. And candidates prone to answering "I don't know" to important questions probably hurt themselves however honest the answer might be. As for specific policies the article supports - I wouldn't support a $2 a gallon gasoline tax or a draft. "Abandoning the fiction that Topeka and Tupelo are as equally at risk from terrorism as New York and Los Angeles" would be a good idea, but its hard to stop congress from trying to spread the pork around. Reducing the amount of issues decided at the federal level and letting states decide sounds like a reasonably good idea in practice, and IMO follows our constitution more closely than our current regime.