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The Living Room Candidate
Karin Ponce writes "I represent the American Museum of the Moving Image , and I wanted to write to you about the Museum's latest online exhibition, The Living Room Candidate. The exhibition maintains a comprehensive and detailed collection of over 300 commercials from the past fourteen elections (1954-2000). As the presidential race heats up, I think this is a very timely exhibition that will equip your readers with insight on the development of the campaign messages crafted by our presidential candidates over the years and provide historical context for the 2004 campaign as the race unfolds. Its convenience (all commercials are available online in the Living Room Candidate website) make this exhibit a must-see for voters and non-voters."
contributions = contributors * f(net_worth_of_contributor)
winning_votes = votes * g(acres_of_land_per_voter)
For some nonlinear functions f and g. This explains how the candidate with fewer supporters won the last election.
Remember to give serious thought to who you are voting for in November and make sure that those around you are at least somewhat educated on what they are voting for.
You mean the choice between the rich hypocritical Christian and the rich hypocritical Christian? Which is the only realistic "choice" I see in any election in America this time around. Oh, sure, there are a few minorities in there- but they're all rich, they've all been corrupted by worship of mammon, which is the biggest problem that our country faces right now.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
So his military career consists of committing war crimes. Good game, Kerry old chap. Wasn't his one kill for shooting a retreating VC in the back?
In any case, he must have at least been swift himself to avoid enemy fire of any consequence. Maybe too swift, tripping over bowls of rice and so quick to retreat that men fall off his turning boat! Then he saves them, and gets medals!
Kerry brought Vietnam into the campaign. I would have left it alone like GWB's drunk driving, abortions, and rampant cocaine abuse, but Kerry claims his service (committing war crimes) as a reason to vote for him, so he invites criticism.
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not polite philosophical debating society
when you change human nature, in all its good, bad, and ugly glory, you will change politics into the beast you imagine it should be
read: never
where i'm coming from is called realism, where you are coming from is called idealism
negative attacks are never going away as long as the word and the concept we now know as "politics" stays the same
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
My retired parents were directly effected by this legislation and they say it is a horrible mess. They used to vote republican but are voting democrat this year with that as one of the main reasons.
I have my own reasons to vote against Bush, such as:
He left the job unfinished in Afganistan, didn't catch Bin Ladin, but instead enganged in an expensive and ill-planned war in Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction that were not there. All he really managed to accomplish was drive a wedge between America and its allies, weaken NATO, increase anti-American sentiment to unprecedented levels, and drive up terrorist recruiting.
He has made us even more dependent on foreign oil. His energy policy was crafted by Enron in secret meetings with Cheney. It gives billions of dollars to entrenched oil interests while nearly ignoring conservation and alternative fuels.
He rolled back environmental laws and increased the amount of mercury and cyanide being released into the environment. He is opening our wilderness preserves to development and logging.
He passed the Patriot Act and is pushing even worse legislation that seriously undermines our personal freedoms. He claimes the terrorists attack us because we stand for freedom, yet he is working to undermine those very values that make us great. you know, little things like judicial oversite of the police, protection from unwarranted search and seizure, right to a fair and open trial, the right to be secure in our own homes.
He ran up a record deficit, after inheriting a surplus from the previous administration. The dot com bust and additional necessary spending on defense can account for some of that, but the deficit could have been contained at a more reasonable 90 billion instead of the half a trillion it has now become. A tax cut paid for with borrowed money is not really a tax cut, any more than taking cash advances on your credit card is a 'pay raise'.
I've usually considered myself politically independent. There are things about both major parties that I like and dislike. There have been republicans politicians that I have admired and respected. It is George W. Bush that is the problem. He is hurting not only our nation, but the credibility of the republican party (at least with me). Kerry has been admittedly bad at getting his message out, but his record in the senate is still far better than Bush's four years as president. Unfortunately, Bush's talent at spin and self marketing could mean we will be stuck with his poor leadership for another four years.
Good thing the aliens will bail us out.
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