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OfflineDivided_Sky
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3059305 - 08/27/04 06:18 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

These kinds of polemics will not win swing voters and change the opinions of any open minded person. You already have to be indoctrinated into a very narrow (IMO unrealistic) political typology to buy any the claims Mr. Livergood makes. The problem is that you already have to hate Bush to believe any of his highly partisan and sensational opinions. Independents and undecided voters are independent often because they do not believe this type of propaganda for either side.

If he had made an argument based on established facts, and not the same old unsupported 'Bush Lied', 'No War for Oil' mythology, and not deliberately over-simplified and distorted the facts, people might take him as credible. Fortunately, the far-left hasn't realised they won't change any minds with the same old knee-jerk claims.

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OfflineZahid
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Divided_Sky]
    #3059323 - 08/27/04 06:24 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Fortunately, I am right and you are wrong.


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OfflineAncalagon
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3059342 - 08/27/04 06:29 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Zahid said:
Fortunately, I am right and you are wrong.



No Colonel Sanders, YOU'RE WRONG!


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?When Alexander the Great visted the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.?
-Henry Hazlitt in 'Economics in One Lesson'

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Invisiblesilversoul7
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3059353 - 08/27/04 06:31 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Zahid said:
Fortunately, I am right and you are wrong.



Careful. You're starting to sound like luvdemshrooms.


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Invisiblez@z.com
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3059465 - 08/27/04 07:03 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Just thought I would jump in here and ask who you were voting for.
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Oh wait! You're a Canadian.


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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: z@z.com]
    #3059469 - 08/27/04 07:04 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

That's right. In this instance, I know what's best for Americans.


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OfflineViveka
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3059723 - 08/27/04 08:02 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

That's right. In this instance, I know what's best for Americans.




Sure. Becoming more deadlocked in the illusion of "democracy" projected by the Republicrats (ie:republicans and democrats are the same machine) is surely the best thing for this country.

Are you performing an excercise of deliberate ignorance or what?

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OfflineZahid
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Viveka]
    #3059735 - 08/27/04 08:07 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

I am full of wisdom.


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InvisibleEvolving
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Viveka]
    #3060087 - 08/27/04 09:41 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

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EvilEye? said:
Sure. Becoming more deadlocked in the illusion of "democracy" projected by the Republicrats (ie:republicans and democrats are the same machine) is surely the best thing for this country.



Ah... wisdom once again shines it's light in PA & L.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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InvisibleLe_Canard
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3060105 - 08/27/04 09:46 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Kerry has my vote, that's for sure! :laugh: :thumbup:

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InvisibleEvolving
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3060224 - 08/27/04 10:16 PM (19 years, 7 months ago)

Yep, it's time to turn our underwear inside out - vote for Kerry, for a change. :rolleyes:


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Evolving]
    #3063567 - 08/28/04 09:43 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

What about the fact that John Kerry and Bush went to Yale 3 years aprt, BOTH were in Skull and Bones, BOTH say they cant talk about it. Yet BOTH say they didnt know eachother.

Hmmmmmm
I dont trust either of them, and I hate being forced into this situation everytime.

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OfflineViveka
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3063727 - 08/28/04 10:41 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)



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I am full of wisdom.




Dude, what are you on?

Like when you posted the picture of Kerry and his running mate "Sen. John Edwards" (Wellstone). You already had me rolling then.

By the way, I don't really understand the basis for a "Muslims for Kerry" campaign. Kerry's record in no way indicates that he would be any less interventionist in the Muslim world. In fact, he's on record stating that he doesn't favor bringing home troops from abroad.

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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Viveka]
    #3064194 - 08/29/04 01:26 AM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Kerry wishes to internationalize the Iraq effort so that it no longer has the brand name of a U.S. occupation. Bush is stubborn, Kerry is able to adapt.


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Invisiblez@z.com
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3065292 - 08/29/04 01:33 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

Zahid said:
Kerry wishes to internationalize the Iraq effort so that it no longer has the brand name of a U.S. occupation. Bush is stubborn, Kerry is able to adapt.



Bush has been asking for international support for a long time. He never wanted for us to do it alone.


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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: z@z.com]
    #3065346 - 08/29/04 01:46 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

No,
he demanded support and cried when people told him to hold on a fucking minute

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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: vampirism]
    #3065365 - 08/29/04 01:51 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

:thumbup:


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OfflineViveka
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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3065373 - 08/29/04 01:54 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Aside from a lot of rhetoric, how does Kerry intend to "internationalize" the Iraq effort? By involving officials from other countries whose populaces are unwilling to get involved? By involving NATO and the UN? I'm sure an increase in the beuraucratic quagmire is exactly what that country needs. Why would anyone trust the motives of an international governing body who answers to no one?
I'll agree that there are many things very wrong with the US "liberation". In fact i'm pretty much entirely opposed to everything about this "war". But that doesn;t mean i'm gonna get suckered into voting for a candidate who is no more worthy of my vote than W. Voting should be a decisive act, not a half-assed strategy guided by quips and cliches like "lesser of two evils" "enemy of my enemy...". The only way voting will ever truly matter is if people are willing to vote the way they truly want to, instead of for who they feel they must in order to avoid discomfort.

Hate Bush but don't really wanna vote for Kerry? Then don't. Vote for a third party or yourself or Frank Zappa. The logic that we must vote for Kerry or else Bush will ruin the country is a fantasy. The status quo will remain for another four years with Bush, or the status quo will remain with Kerry, with a slight alteration in the surface political rhetoric. I'd sure like to see a little courage from the voting public. A little integrity of decision. A little willingness to endure perceived shittiness in the name of a greater cause and that cause is the breaking of the stalemate between the Democans and Rebublicrats.


Leave it to Kerry to say anything that will convince the insipid, intellectually lazy Amerikan voters to pick him. Hell, he might as well say he's the best of the two uncandidates because he swatted W. with the paddle at the Skull&Bones barbque out in the Redwoods more times than W. swatted him.

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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Viveka]
    #3065397 - 08/29/04 02:04 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

What about the economy.


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Re: Why Americans Must Vote for John Kerry [Re: Zahid]
    #3065406 - 08/29/04 02:06 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

Kerry's policies (if he can persuade congress to implement them) would immediately halt the booming recovery in the US.

pinky


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