It's Very Simple

[corplinx]

As a unix sysadmin, I have had to setup lots of accounts for foreign workers since American educated workers can't fill most high tech programming positions.

When coming up with a username, its usually first initial last name.

When you ask Joe H1B what his name is, invariably he starts by saying "its very simple" and then rambling off some combination of Smurf, Pig Latin, and Loogie Hocking.

Ergo, when I hear "its very simple" prefixed before something, I assume its BS and what I hear will be bewildering.

Is it any wonder I hear this or similar prefixes everytime a Kerry campaign worker is asked to explain Kerry's stance on Iraq?

Now before I suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous partisanship, let me say that I'm on record in this forum defending the 87 billion statement and I would rather be caught dead than chanting flip-flop. I think there are people holding their noses while voting for Kerry will agree that his stances at times seem irreconciliable.

 

[shuize]

It's really very simple. The reason Kerry's Iraq policy has been incomprehensible up until now is that nobody ever asked him:

"Is that your final answer?"

 

[Dorian Gray]

Is it any wonder I hear this or similar prefixes everytime a Kerry campaign worker is asked to explain Kerry's stance on Iraq?

Don't stretch like that - you might hurt yourself.

 

[crimresearch]

Bill Bradley wrote an excellent article many years ago, about coming into politics with goals and a vision...

And he described how the campaign/money system chewed him up, and molded him like a piece of Play-Doh, into a handshaking, grinning, head-bobbing 'candidate' saying whatever it took to get elected...

And both parties have refined the system since that time...neither candidate is ever going to provide substantive answers to the hard questions, much less solve them once in office...not if they ever want to be re-elected.

 

[CBL4]

As each day goes by, the situation in Iraq changes. Should Kerry keep the same strategy or adjust it to the new situation?

Fortunately, Bush has not stuck to a foolish consistency. He went from a "no UN" approach to what Kerry was advocating - "Let's get the UN to help us." Should I call him a flip-flopper or should I praise his ability to adjust to reality?

As to Kerry's quote "I voted for it before I voted against it" makes a very funny sound bite but is actually quite reasonable. He voted to fund Iraq reconstruction with a tax cut rollback. He voted against the funding without a way to pay for it.

You can question the wisdom of the action but it is by no means flip-flopping.

CBL

 

[jj]

As a unix sysadmin, I have had to setup lots of accounts for foreign workers since American educated workers can't fill most high tech programming positions.

Well, corps, that's the problem. When we have politicians supporting claptrap like 'Creation science', we have politicians insisting on traitorous stuff like "faith based government charity", and the like, we won't have much thinking coming from inside the USA.

It's all part of the same syndrome, deny what science teaches us. It's right there with using "polygraphs", measuring head bumps, and arguing that "evolution is only one opinion". We've gotten just what we paid for.

So, when you see the foreign people taking your job, remember, it's your own guys who are responsible for it.