The Two Big Whoppers

[varwoche]

Bush: Iraq.

Kerry: Pay for programs and half the deficit with tax rollback on incomes > 200k.

 

[TillEulenspiegel]

I think one can judge the failure of Bushes Iraq debacle on the ground every night by watching the news.

The Kerry declaration is much more difficult because numbers are abstractions and where do you get reliable figures? The CBO? Indie economists? Then theres the whole projection process...that's just guess work. Bush couldn't have accounted for the economic impact of the 9/11 disaster .who can predict the future?

 

[varwoche]

The Kerry declaration is much more difficult because numbers are abstractions and where do you get reliable figures? The CBO? Indie economists? Then theres the whole projection process...that's just guess work.

The main factor is the health of the economy, part of which is the "business cycle". Kerry's no fool; he knows these are tenuous variables to rely on.

 

[corplinx]

Here is a good one, what are the two big whoppers they tell about each other?

Bush: kerrys record on tax votes
Kerry: the "we had bin laden, outsourced to overlords" thing he started each debate with

 

[varwoche]

Statements that have been the most unfairly twisted...

Kerry: I was for it and then against it.

Bush: Mission accomplished.

 

[apoger]

This entire political season has been a festival of mud-slinging.
I've never seem people get so worked up over such a pathetic choice.

I makes me sad.

 

[TillEulenspiegel]

democracy is like sex...it's noisy ,squirmy, laden with human short comings ( no pun ) often mis-directed and at times cannot reach accommodation.

The past American politic is rife with examples of political barbs that were extreme. Whether it be a cartoon of a drunken U.S. Grant on horseback or Lincoln as an ugly buffoon, even Hamilton and Burr in a duel.

The discourse has become decidedly base . At least We don't have brawls like Taiwan.

 

[Dorian Gray]

I think this is how we should decide who is president: Take $300 million in chips, or roughly one chip per person in the US. Give any and all legitimate candidates a number of chips based on a synthesis of polls conducted according to percentage (For example, Nader would get $3 million in chips because he has about 1% in polls), and make them play Texas Hold 'Em. Whoever ends up with all the chips is president.

Huh? Huh? Tell me that wouldn't be infinitely more interesting than watching debates or voting.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I think this is how we should decide who is president: Take $300 million in chips, or roughly one chip per person in the US. Give any and all legitimate candidates a number of chips based on a synthesis of polls conducted according to percentage (For example, Nader would get $3 million in chips because he has about 1% in polls), and make them play Texas Hold 'Em. Whoever ends up with all the chips is president.

Huh? Huh? Tell me that wouldn't be infinitely more interesting than watching debates or voting.

That's silly. I have a much more elegant plan for deciding who's president. It involves a locked room, a monkey trained to strangle people with piano wire, twenty rabid weasels, an electrified floor, nitrous oxide, and ten thousand gallons of strawberry jello. The survivor who is best able, on emerging, to sing "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" without falling over or losing consciousness becomes president.

Of course, that means that we'll usually wind up with an assassin monkey as president, but I feel that a bold new direction in leadership that involves a vision of peace, prosperity, and throwing feces at people might be a step forward for America.

 

[Kerberos]

That's silly. I have a much more elegant plan for deciding who's president. It involves a locked room, a monkey trained to strangle people with piano wire, twenty rabid weasels, an electrified floor, nitrous oxide, and ten thousand gallons of strawberry jello. The survivor who is best able, on emerging, to sing "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" without falling over or losing consciousness becomes president.

Your proposal is totally unacceptable - It discriminates against mutes, and gives an unfair advantage to people wheelchairs (since they can't fall over).

 

[TragicMonkey]

Your proposal is totally unacceptable - It discriminates against mutes, and gives an unfair advantage to people wheelchairs (since they can't fall over).

I said "best able to sing". That might well be a mute. But really, I'm not expecting multiple survivors to emerge from the contest. The monkey would be exceptionally well-trained.

 

[TillEulenspiegel]

I like whoppers ....w/ xtra mayo.