Post #178,795
10/11/04 4:29:30 PM
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On the Error-free Presidency
On the [link|http://www.moveonpac.org/#| "admission of mistakes"].
Move-On&on (Rob Reiner) has produced an ad re that hemming, hawing non-answer to the simple request.. and previous hem/haw versions.. at end of = the last Q in the #2 faux-debate. Q was ~ "Name three mistakes you've made, and how.. you corrected them.."
If to be human is to err; this sucker doesn't just imagine Gawd Talketh to Moi -- it thinks It Are Gawd cha cha cha.
Let us prey.
..but then, We Knew That
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Post #178,798
10/11/04 4:37:05 PM
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Kerry missed a big chance there.
He should have gone for the jugular after Bush flubbed that one.
"The President has just shown that what he calls being resolute is just stubborn arrogance. The only thing he's done wrong, he says, is appoint the wrong people... something he is obviously blaming on the people and not himself."
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #178,801
10/11/04 4:48:59 PM
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agreed
I heard Dubya's non-response and whispered, "The Lord hath delivered him unto our hands." In a perfect world Kerry would have replied as Saletan set forth in Slate: The pitch was hanging there, waiting to be smacked into the upper deck. All Kerry had to do was walk up to the questioner and say, "You just asked the president to name three mistakes. He couldn't name one. He can't correct his mistakes, because he can't see them, even when his own weapons inspector puts it on the front page of the newspaper. You can't change this president. You can only replace him." But of course, Saletan and I both had the luxury of collecting our thoughts a question at a time, and not in advance for an entire debate, so I am disposed to cut Kerry some slack here. cordially, Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil?
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Post #178,851
10/12/04 6:41:00 AM
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No need
An icy electric wave passed over the audience - I know those people and they were thinking - what a twitchy, strutting, preening, neurotic zero.
My God how did that thing ever manage to get elected to any office at all?
-drl
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Post #178,802
10/11/04 4:49:48 PM
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Thou sayest..
'Twas my thought and phrased just like yours. I can see how Kerry missed it in the instant.. being moi: it's always easier when all one has to do is watch / not perform. (Game show contestants aver this!)
But I'd still hope he's a lot Smarter than moi! if the sucker wants to run *this* cockamamie Zoo. He shouldn't have missed This One :(
{sigh}
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Post #178,814
10/11/04 7:23:04 PM
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I think he covered it in the first one
but he should have hammered it home again. In the first debate he said:
I'm not going to talk about a difference of character. I don't think that's my job or my business.
But let me talk about something that the president just sort of finished up with. Maybe someone would call it a character trait, maybe somebody wouldn't.
But this issue of certainty. It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and be wrong.
It's another to be certain and be right, or to be certain and be moving in the right direction, or be certain about a principle and then learn new facts and take those new facts and put them to use in order to change and get your policy right.
What I worry about with the president is that he's not acknowledging what's on the ground, he's not acknowledging the realities of North Korea, he's not acknowledging the truth of the science of stem-cell research or of global warming and other issues.
And certainty sometimes can get you in trouble.
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And that question was a total soft pitch to bring this up again - I wish he'd done it.
That was lovely cheese.
--Wallace, The Wrong Trousers
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Post #178,806
10/11/04 5:35:21 PM
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Kerry was handed a couple of soft pitches there
and didn't swing at them. I still remember that soft curve where someone asked him to look in the camera and promise not to raise taxes.
I think he flubbed that one too.
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Post #178,807
10/11/04 5:54:14 PM
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What do you mean?
CNN was broadcasting at that moment from the camera that Kerry chose to look in.
He looked in the camera and said it. And then began listing other tax breaks for the middle class.
What did you think he could have done better?
Thanks,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #178,836
10/11/04 10:49:44 PM
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Yep.
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Post #178,842
10/12/04 1:03:44 AM
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As I said: What did you think he could have done better?
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #178,817
10/11/04 8:20:15 PM
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Really should have been ready for that
One of Bush's previous big flubs was being asked a very similar question at one of his rare press conferences, and just stammering around. Both sides should have been expecting to see some variation of that question surface again.
Jay
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