Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize!
 

Funny this, coming from the Michael Moore party

Michael Barone on the Duelfer Report
 

A distinction without a difference; it's still circular.

Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize!
 

Puhleeze, we'll take an Eisenstein and Riefenstahl any day over your Moore. We would take a Tom Hanks (U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.!), but wouldn't touch your fifth-column propogandist with a ten-foot pole. You people had him sit next to an ex-President at your convention. You wanna talk about propogandists?

Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize!
 

Shit. He makes documentaries too?

http://images.usatoday.com/life/ente...-like-mike.jpg

Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize!
 

actually that probably hurt moore's reputation more than it hurt carter's, didn't it? close call i know.

I'm Pleased
 

I know this is your schtick and all, but I don't even see your point. Sebby says there is an apparent inconsistency in republican policy that favors state's rights on some issues (e.g. abortion, guns, civil rights) but favors federal enforcement in other areas (e.g. drugs, gay marriage).

What, exactly, is your response? That there is no inconsistency? Or that the inconsistency is the result of scared suburbanites? And if the latter, how is that an excuse for the inconsistency?

Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize!
 

Wrong Mike. you're talking about the one where the officials call foul on the other guys even when no one does anything wrong.

I'm mean the mike who calls foul on the officials even when they do nothing wrong.

The October Surprise
 

Nope. First of all, I don't think there is are any secrets about this. It has been all over the place. Second, Kerry's Vietnam experience typifies America's Vietnam experience. He went. He fought. He came back. And he had second thoughts. This will shock no one.

Have you seen the film? 'Cause I really doubt it. In fact, I would suggest that this quote from your article is highly suggestive that this is not true,

""For 33 years, we've been saying that how Kerry portrayed us was utterly false. It was purgatory of the worst kind. It was slander," Sherwood said. "But no one wanted to talk about it. Everybody ran for cover."

Kerry doesn't excite many democrats, but I have only heard a handful say they dislike the guy. And none of them have said this based on his peace activism.

Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize, Sa-Prize!
 

As a friend noted at the time:

"Oh, look who's seated together? It's Mr. Nobel and Mr. Taco Bell"

I'm Pleased
 

Two things.
1. Sebby didn't mention gay marriage as far as I know. That said, iIt ain't my morality, and I do agree that its hypocritical for the state's rights people. OTOH, importing something (narcotics) into this country is inherently a federal territory.

2. The only serious non-criminal voices I hear for legalization are from the hard Right libertarians and economists (I'm somewhere in this mix). Yet, its the Republicans who push Federal drug laws? Who you talkin to? This is the pot calling the white porcelain sink black. No matter, don't accuse me of being in favor of federal drug laws (see below).

There is an inconsistency in the drug thing. The trick is, it ain't my inconsistency, and it ain't the hard Rights. You see any prominent Kerry supporters (whose brains aren't fried) backing either legalization or proportionate penalties for buyers/users? The compromise in this country is that we don't target the buyers/users the same way we target the poor who are the vast bulk of sellers. You want to see this house of hypocricy fold quickly? Start throwing felonies on the buyers.

But this is all of us calling each other's parties names. Why don't we just agree on the positions I previously set out:
1.) Legalize or shoot everybody fairly, but get your hands out of my wallet;
2.) Get the government out of the marriage business, and call civil unions, uhm, civil unions;
3.) And let communities define their own morality. Get rid of Roe.

You guys seem to do great right up til you get up to the larger question of Roe. And Roe itself is a great hypocricy.

The October Surprise
 

Yes, what DOES "Kerry" mean?

The October Surprise
 

It's about Kerry. Bush can demand equal time. Equal, and good, time.

Cubans for Kerry?
 

Everything I've read on the subject suggests that the anti-Castro feelings have become increasingly less important as a motivator for the Cuban-American vote in Florida over the past few years and will likely continue to do so. After all, its been 40+ years now -- the adults who fled Castro are mostly gone. The Cubans born and raised in South Florida aren't exactly desparate refugees stuck in camps in the desert. [Plus, they HATE the new travel & cash regulations.]

Also, re the Florida vote in general -- non-Cuban Hispanic-Americans are more and more numerous and prominent in Florida over the past decade -- very different attitudes and issues.

S_A_M

The October Surprise
 

You think most people don't know this? Anyway, I don't think it will hurt him with either his base or the ABB crowd -- which is not completely overlapping.

The October Surprise
 

A thirty-minute docu? I think it's going to start bumping up against outrage-fatigue. If this gets spun as just more shit from the Mad Swifties, he's gonna get the sympathy vote from it.