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January 06, 2008
And now two Sunday debates
I guess two debates two nights in a row is the sort of thing we have to get used to over the next few months. I watched the Republican debate on Fox, and now I'm watching the Democrats on CNN. I thought Fox was shamelessly plugging Romney (the Luntz stuff with the charts was especially irritating), and I didn't hear Romney say anything new at all. I liked just about everything Fred Thompson said, but I think Chris Wallace didn't ask him much. (Nor was Giuliani asked as many questions.) The whole thing seemed slanted in favor of Romney, who clearly is Fox's Annointed. So much so that I would put my money on him winning the nomination at this point. It's not quite as clear who CNN is plugging. I have a feeling they prefer Hillary ,but they're not being as blatant about it. Obama is still doing well, and Hillary keeps giving him "the look." Edwards continues to look so smarmy it's embarrassing, while Richardson looks repetitive and lost. I guess if CNN used Fox's "viable candidate" standard, they'd cut the cord on Richardson. posted by Eric on 01.06.08 at 10:54 PM
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Last Wednesday I watched as a quarter million dollar printing press was loaded onto a truck destined for recycling in China. It's not that the machine was obsolete. It could still produce a profit. But the profit was squeezed beyond human capacity: by needless local government taxes and business permit fees, OSHA regulations and subsequent insurance standards that added thousands to operating costs, clean air regulations that made me pay offset fees for pollution no greater than a family car produces, artificially high ink and paper costs that foreign producers aren't forced to bear, and finally foreign competition from backwater asshole countries like Vietnam who rely on virtual slave wage labor. My business, and life partner and I have worked 12 hour shifts each, 24 hour days at times. It's not that we are lazy. We still have one machine to see us into old age. But forget about paying wages to anyone. And we are supposed to support globalists in the Republican Party? Or socialists in the Democrat Party, like possibly Obama? I thought it was the duty of government, perhaps the only justification for its existence, to protect the citizen, not just from physical attack, but also from economic attack. Is there really a dimes worth of difference between the two political parties? This is NOT nihilism, but cold, hard reality. And the one who purports to be the populist, Huccabitch, is what we are supposed to vote for? Sooner I should slit my throat. Frank · January 7, 2008 01:09 AM I thought it was the duty of government, perhaps the only justification for its existence, to protect the citizen, not just from physical attack, but also from economic attack. You are so right Frank. If America had a National Socialist government you would have been protected.
M. Simon · January 7, 2008 07:48 AM M. Simon: But also, I know first hand the results of World Bank advocacy on behalf of developing countries. The most favored trading status bestowed on China. You want straight talk? You and I have only one thing in common: the protection of this country from attack by Muslims. As far as I can see, this country would be insane to elect a man raised in a Muslim school in Indonesia a mere 6 years after 9/11. But also insane to elect a woman who embraced Arafat and his wife. Or a bigoted preacher from Arkansas that raises spawn who enjoy killing dogs. This is my last post at this site. I really don't belong here. My knowledge is not from reading Friedman tracts, or juggling my ethics to practice law. Frank · January 8, 2008 02:12 AM Post a comment
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If Fox used the viable candidate standard, they'd stop covering the Republican debates, period.