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Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry

Posted by michael on from the all-hat-no-cattle dept.

ramoth4 writes "Local Crawford, TX (Bush's adopted hometown) paper The Lone Star Iconoclast has endorsed John Kerry for president. Kerry's home paper, the Boston Globe, hasn't come out with an endorsement yet. It's a very interesting editorial, especially in light of Bush's performance in the first debate."

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  1. This is news? by Neil+Blender · · Score: 3, Informative

    A paper in town of 46,000 people makes an endorsement? Who cares if it's Bush's 'adopted' home town?

    1. Re:This is news? by j-turkey · · Score: 3, Informative
      This word, "ironic", I do not think it means what you think it means...So, unless you think the paper is really FOR Bush, you misused the word "ironic".

      You left out the third definition from your link, which fits the use of the word pretty nicely:

      3a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

      One would expect Crawford's local paper to be pro-Bush. They did not -- hence the irony.

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      -Turkey

  2. It's sad... by Your_Mom · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's sad that the AP picks up the fact that a paper with a circulation of 425 supports Kerry. But there is not mention that the Lowell Sun, a ciculation of 100,000+ and a major newspaper in Massachusetts, Endorses Bush.

    No Bias here. Noooooosiirrreeee.

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  3. Re:Doesn't matter. by (trb001) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorta. From the Baltimore Sun:

    Sen. Kerry and President Bush also differ sharply on estate taxes. Under current law, the basic exclusion from federal estate taxes this year is $1.5 million. That exclusion is scheduled to rise in stages, reaching $3.5 million in 2009, while the top tax rate, now 48 percent, is set to decline in stages. The estate tax is scheduled to vanish completely in the year 2010 -- only to reappear in 2011.

    Sen. Kerry favors raising the basic estate-tax exemption to $2 million "immediately," Furman says, and also setting an exemption of $10 million for a small business or family farm. The exemption would grow with inflation. President Bush wants to kill "death taxes" completely.

    I'm still trying to determine how an estate tax is fair at ALL. I get taxed on my income, I get taxed on my interest, I get taxed on profit from my property when I sell it...how many times do I need to get taxed? The fact that the estate tax is 45% is also a killer.

    --trb