Rossi should concede despite those two things still being true.
What's true about it? Is there a big stash of GOP votes that haven't been counted? Unless that is true, or unless the Democrats were loudly calling for a new election (AFAIK they only wanted recounts) your cries of hypocracy are completely baseless.
The hypocrisy of the Democrats here would be stunning if it weren't so predictable.
Riiiiiiight. They asked for, and got their recounts as allowed by law. What's predictable are your reflexive, baseless cries of hypocracy.
Right, because it is good for your Democrat to follow the legal process to challenge the election result when she lost, but not good for the Republican to do it when he lost.
She followed existing law. He wants to pass a new law to allow for a new election so he might win a second time. Could you find a less relevant comparison?
I live in North Dakota, which has a Republican govenor and the state legislature is solidly Republican. And yet our entire congressional representation is Democratic.
To make matters worse, they're intentionally working to keep ballots from servicemen and women
[Dana Carvy's George H. W. Bush voice] If you're in the military, and your vote is illegally cast after the election is over, your vote is...counted. If you're a minority and there's an error on your ballot, you vote is...not counted.[/DCGHWBV]
Nevermind that the GOP is so very concerned about voter fraud, as long as your a minority and are likely to vote democratic. Democrats might have committed shenanigans as well, but you shouldn't throw stones in a glass house buddy.
Let me answer your question: More than any other country.
Irrelevant. Nobody's impressed when a billionare donates ten bucks to charity. The GOP is planning on spending twice as much money for Bush's second inaguration as the amount currently earmarked for disaster aid for the survivors. Tells you where the priorities are...
I think it's not up to the courts to decide this case.
Who else can? The government can't pass legislation punishing a single company.
Now look at the customers. There is absolutely no good reason they would have to buy Windows, or any of the other products Microsoft offers. They have a choice.
That's the point: no they DON'T have a choice. If you are a business, you have no choice but to use what costumers use. And that at the least means Microsoft Office. To do anything else means you risk loosing customers.
However, once customers get smart, see the trends, and stop supporting Microsoft
Impossible. Windows runs the deskop corporate world. Just about any industry you are in, the software you use only runs on Windows. Accounting. Finance. Aritecture. Banking. You will find some exceptions, like Macs in the graphics industry, but those are just that: exceptions. A monopoly doesn't have to have 100% marketshare, just enough to hurt competition and consumers. The only way consumers will stop supporting Microsoft is if their products become completely unusuable, or something comes out that surpasses Microsofts products by decades. Neither is going to happen.
I figure it pleases both the Religious right and liberals (or did you all forget Sen. Liberman vs. video games and Tipper Gore with the PMRC)
Bzzt! Those are the only prominent luddites in the Democratic party, versus many in the GOP. Yes, the Democrats have Libberman (who, as another poster pointed out, is NOT liberal), and Tipper Gore. Actually not so much Tipper anymore, because even if she still wants to censor cds, she has no platform to speak from.
So we have the conservative Liberman for the Democrats, and on the right we have....Ashcroft, Powell, Santorum, Bennett and Falwell, off the top of my head. And yes, you can find Democrats from Bill Clinton to Jesse Jackson making moralistic comments, but making a couple of pandering comments does not a luddite make. Jerry Falwell and William Bennet spend more time moralizing on their days off than Jackson does in ten years.
No, the GOP has firm control over being the party of luddites; they don't have any other choice if they want to continue pandering to Southern Babtists and members of the Moral Majority.
Can you make a thumbs up? Try doing it right now. Do it. Do it. No, seriously, do it. Okay, now lower your thumb down to your index finger. Now, imagine a remote in your hands, and making the same motion. Its that easy.
The first time your kids have to spend signifigant time away from you is when they start going to school. Before that, you have a great deal of control. If we filtered all media to make everyone happy all of the time, all we'd have is Watching Organic Paint Dry on PBS, so stop expecting others to do your parenting for you, and take some responsiblity. The V-chip has been avaliable for what, 10 years now? And any digital cable box also comes with parental controls. Its really not that hard.
When your kids start going to school, there are even odds they'll be exposed to words worse than "ass" in a matter of hours. The world is not going to wait on your children until you think they are ready, so you better make your children ready for the world.
And many of us think a few words, including "ass", should be kept of the public's airwaves.
And I think that Fox should be taken off the air for journalistic malpractice (if there isn't such a thing, there should be). But the point of free speech isn't to protect popular speech, its to protect unpopular speech.
There have been cultural luddites for thousands of years, wringing their hands over foul language and how the younger generation shows no respect for their elders. And for thousands of years they've been wrong, every step of the way.
Just yesterday, somebody with those asshole lights was tailgating me, you know, the ultra-bright lights which are probably very good off-road, but when blasting through your rear-view mirror by an asshole tailgater, they make it IMPOSSIBLE to safely change lanes.
Yeah, I was driving my dad's SUV when I (doing the speed limit) passed a truck pulling a trailer, and the asshole put his brights on me. At that moment I wish I had a James Bondian type console, hit a button, and a large mirror would shoot up from my dad's tailgate, covering the rear window. Instant blindness for Mr. Dickhead behind me.
And because you were DRIVING WAY TOO SLOW. If the cop has any sense he'll give BOTH of you reckless driving tickets. Driving too slow can be just as much of a hazard as driving too fast.
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Dude. Your driving imposes costs upon everyone else.
Dude, your crazy self-centered argument could apply to everything. Why should I pay for fire and police protection in your part of the city, when different stations cover mine. Why should I pay anything towards the U.S. military, when I don't life in a large city and am under no threat from terrorist attacks.
And you ask all taxpayers to pay for your driving. Even your local neighbor who doesn't drive. Has to pay for your roads.
Thats because all taxpayers benefit from having good roads, regaurdless of how much they drive.
I have one too, but don't feel like digging around the back of my computer to see if its the same model. Mine only bitches when there isn't a keyboard plugged into the keyboard port. So I plug in my cheapass, extra usb keyboard (coincidently made by Belkin) and I'm good to go.
...only if the iMac and eMacs were the only computers that Apple made. As they aren't, I don't see that you have much of a point. People don't bitch at Shuttle for not putting out compact boxes with 6 PCI slots for the cost of an X- Box.
People usually argue that enthusiasts like myself should be buying PowerMacs, but the whole point is that a $500 PC is just as capable of doing these things as a $2000 PowerMac.
Once you add all the stuff you are talking about, its not going to be $500 anymore. Duh. And PowerMacs aren't $2000, either. If you want a deal, either wait till Apple updates the line, and grab a unsold machine of the previous generation for a hefty discount. Or if you don't want to wait, get a refurb, they have the same warranty. The cheapest one they list at the online store is a 1.8 GHz 512MB 160GB SuperDrive for $1400.
If you're complaining that Apple doens't offer a cheap box of parts, just stop because its not going to happen, and that chestnut is older than Ray Charles's great grandfather, and Ray himself is old. And dead.
As for your list, Firewire makes just about everything on your list irrelevant, and iMacs have had Firewire for what, five years now? Six? As for having two giganics, just how many people need two on a personal computer? Certainally not for a firewall.
To a minority, they do matter
Keep in mind that having a plethora of models for every conceivable minority was killing Apple in the mid-90's. Unless there's a major shift in the computing industry, Apple will never deviate from having seperate "consumer" and "pro" lines.
As for using even a first gen iMac...how many cable/dsl modems DON'T have a usb port? And even if they don't, you can get USB -> ethernet adapters pretty cheaply these days. Boom, firewall.
I am not talking about the level of users that are on slashdot, I am talking about the stereotypical mother/grandmother.
Bully for them. However, the majority of users make use of the second mouse button all the time (its indispensible in Windows), and that majority grows all the time as kids learn to use computers and old fogeys kick the bucket.
Do it based on percentages, or maybe 5 years worth of profits. But along with this would necessarily come more inspectors for oversight...because if the threat of severe punishment were enough, we wouldn't have any drug users in the United States, especially New York state. However, the fines would probably pay for the inspectors, and then some.
This would also help reduce the number of lawsuits. Right now a lawsuit and a good attorney are your only weapons as an employee/consumer, but advocates of "tort reform" want to limit lawsuits so much that they are meaningless to any defendant who has enough money.
Excuse me for hitting Submit instead of preview acidentally.
You're excused.
I DID prove my points, thank you.
Not really. Your responce either consisted of "you know nothing of Opera" or were unreadable italics.
And you, are obviously misinformed, because you made a comment that was false.
As I said before, if you're plugging Opera, its your job to show its superiority, not just two word bullets like "its faster".
Why not narrow it down to three or four features that you think put Opera head and shoulders above Firefox, back them up logically, use the preview button, and I will give them serious consideration.:-)
Whether intentional or not, I think you are dead on - the anti-drug commercials have continued to shatter my mind as they break through new barriers of stupidity.
Dude, have you ever heard Bill Hick's rant on drug commercials? He died about ten years ago, and its still funny shit. If you're interested I could mail it to you. I just about crapped my liver from laughing so hard the first time I heard it.
uses minorities during elections and then forgets about them
Again, based on what? The Democcratic party generally panders to them full time, just as the GOP panders to the religious right full time.
hates freedom of speech [and opposing viewpoints to such and extent they want to cut off people's right to give those viewpoints.. just look at Fox News, and the Left's complete hatred of that].
Blah blah blah. Show me some liberals who seriously say that Fox should be taken off the air, infringing their freedom of speech. They wouldn't have nearly as much a problem with Fox if Fox were just honest about their reporting, instead of parading it as "fair and balanced".
I don't think (or at least would hope) that people represent the Left as a whole, any more than what you stated about the Right.
Oh, you can find dicks all over, certainally the Democratic party is no exception. I would have a very, very hard time voting for Hillary Clinton, but she's the only pure dickheaded Democrat in a position of power that I can name. As opposed to Rumsfield, Cheney, Delay, Lott, Santorum, and so on.
The left peddles hate just as much (if not more) on the internet.
The vast majority of that is a responce to neocon hate. Hating the haters so to speak. As in they hate dittoheads and the morons passing gay marriage amendments, not Farmer Joe down the road who has been voting Republican since 1954.
Just check out DemocraticUnderground for some vivid examples of how left coasters look down their noses at the rest of the country. That's hate right there.
No, thats redneck elitism speaking right there. Just because you never went to college, drive a Ford pickup and watch NASCAR doesn't mean you're any more of an American than an drama major sipping lattes in a NYC cafe. He's just as free to look down on you as you look down on him.
Don't kid yourself... There are a lot of lunatics to go around, on both sides.
The difference being that the left wing loonies don't have control of the DFL, the way the neocons currently dominate the GOP.
Yes, exactly. If CBS or the NYT fuckup, its an uproar. Fox has similar or greater fucks up on a regular basis, nobody cares, because its Fox and everyone knows they are hacks.
I'm not sure how you missed this.. Democrats represent plenty of big monied interest themselves.
He didn't miss it. Somebody put it best, as that big business rents the Democratic party from time to time (see Hollywood and the DMCA) but it co-owns the GOP along with the religious right.
John Kerry, oh sure, he's a real "people's man" who grew up among... err wait, he's stinking rich, isn't he?
Well lets see, he's a deocrated Vietnam Vet, and has spent over half of his life in public service, as opposed to Bush who was in "drunken frat boy" mode until he was 40. And he's 'stinking' rich because of his wife, whome he wasn't born married to. And if you're a Bush supporter, its pretty hypocritical to bash Kerry for his suposed 'elitism', since Dubbya has never had to work for a living or worry about his future.
I also find it humorous that people who support tax cuts are 'greedy'.
Because they generally are? Wanting a frugal government is one thing, but having tax cuts for the sake of having tax cuts is another.
play robin-hood and siphon money from my pocket to produce social welfare program for the children/puppies/old people/environment/insert my cause of the day here
And you wonder why people think you're greedy. Just because your tax dollars don't come back to you directly doesn't mean don't benefit from them. And yes that includes social programs.
I'm not a rich man, I squeak out my living as I can.
How'd you like your $300 cut of the trillion dollar income tax deduction? Where you excstatic to find out that payroll taxes weren't going to be cut at all?
I read the republican *platform* and smile in admiration, but year after year, it is completely ignored by those in office.
Ignored? How about completely abandoned? Everything from non-intrusive government (gay marriage amendments, Patriot Act) to 'smaller government' (Homeland Security, No Child Left Behind) to responsible federal budgeting (extending the debt limit so we can have an even bigger deficit).
Not that the Democratic party isn't in a mess...no goals, 'moving to the center' even though it keeps costing them elections, modeling their responces to GOP attacks on the Dukakis campaign, weak responces to the GOP's 40 year lead on PR. But at least they don't consistently act against their supposed core principles the way the GOP leadership does.
How much critism from the mainstream media did he really get for NAFTA?
Why would they? NAFTA was a bipartisan peice of legislation and passed with plenty of votes. And free trade was just as much an issue for Republicans as it was for Clinton.
Or bombing Kosovo?
WTF are you talking about here? Kosovo was one of the most bloodless (for us) operations in history. It stopped Serbia from invading Kosovo and putting over a million people out of their homes. So I say again, wtf are you talking about?
As for non-sex scandals, I have three words for you: Whitewater and Hillary Clinton.
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Rossi should concede despite those two things still being true.
What's true about it? Is there a big stash of GOP votes that haven't been counted? Unless that is true, or unless the Democrats were loudly calling for a new election (AFAIK they only wanted recounts) your cries of hypocracy are completely baseless.
The hypocrisy of the Democrats here would be stunning if it weren't so predictable.
Riiiiiiight. They asked for, and got their recounts as allowed by law. What's predictable are your reflexive, baseless cries of hypocracy.
Right, because it is good for your Democrat to follow the legal process to challenge the election result when she lost, but not good for the Republican to do it when he lost.
She followed existing law. He wants to pass a new law to allow for a new election so he might win a second time. Could you find a less relevant comparison?
I live in North Dakota, which has a Republican govenor and the state legislature is solidly Republican. And yet our entire congressional representation is Democratic.
To make matters worse, they're intentionally working to keep ballots from servicemen and women
[Dana Carvy's George H. W. Bush voice] If you're in the military, and your vote is illegally cast after the election is over, your vote is...counted. If you're a minority and there's an error on your ballot, you vote is...not counted.[/DCGHWBV]
Nevermind that the GOP is so very concerned about voter fraud, as long as your a minority and are likely to vote democratic. Democrats might have committed shenanigans as well, but you shouldn't throw stones in a glass house buddy.
Let me answer your question: More than any other country.
Irrelevant. Nobody's impressed when a billionare donates ten bucks to charity. The GOP is planning on spending twice as much money for Bush's second inaguration as the amount currently earmarked for disaster aid for the survivors. Tells you where the priorities are...
I think it's not up to the courts to decide this case.
Who else can? The government can't pass legislation punishing a single company.
Now look at the customers. There is absolutely no good reason they would have to buy Windows, or any of the other products Microsoft offers. They have a choice.
That's the point: no they DON'T have a choice. If you are a business, you have no choice but to use what costumers use. And that at the least means Microsoft Office. To do anything else means you risk loosing customers.
However, once customers get smart, see the trends, and stop supporting Microsoft
Impossible. Windows runs the deskop corporate world. Just about any industry you are in, the software you use only runs on Windows. Accounting. Finance. Aritecture. Banking. You will find some exceptions, like Macs in the graphics industry, but those are just that: exceptions. A monopoly doesn't have to have 100% marketshare, just enough to hurt competition and consumers. The only way consumers will stop supporting Microsoft is if their products become completely unusuable, or something comes out that surpasses Microsofts products by decades. Neither is going to happen.
I figure it pleases both the Religious right and liberals (or did you all forget Sen. Liberman vs. video games and Tipper Gore with the PMRC)
Bzzt! Those are the only prominent luddites in the Democratic party, versus many in the GOP. Yes, the Democrats have Libberman (who, as another poster pointed out, is NOT liberal), and Tipper Gore. Actually not so much Tipper anymore, because even if she still wants to censor cds, she has no platform to speak from.
So we have the conservative Liberman for the Democrats, and on the right we have....Ashcroft, Powell, Santorum, Bennett and Falwell, off the top of my head. And yes, you can find Democrats from Bill Clinton to Jesse Jackson making moralistic comments, but making a couple of pandering comments does not a luddite make. Jerry Falwell and William Bennet spend more time moralizing on their days off than Jackson does in ten years.
No, the GOP has firm control over being the party of luddites; they don't have any other choice if they want to continue pandering to Southern Babtists and members of the Moral Majority.
Can you make a thumbs up? Try doing it right now. Do it. Do it. No, seriously, do it. Okay, now lower your thumb down to your index finger. Now, imagine a remote in your hands, and making the same motion. Its that easy.
The first time your kids have to spend signifigant time away from you is when they start going to school. Before that, you have a great deal of control. If we filtered all media to make everyone happy all of the time, all we'd have is Watching Organic Paint Dry on PBS, so stop expecting others to do your parenting for you, and take some responsiblity. The V-chip has been avaliable for what, 10 years now? And any digital cable box also comes with parental controls. Its really not that hard.
When your kids start going to school, there are even odds they'll be exposed to words worse than "ass" in a matter of hours. The world is not going to wait on your children until you think they are ready, so you better make your children ready for the world.
And many of us think a few words, including "ass", should be kept of the public's airwaves.
And I think that Fox should be taken off the air for journalistic malpractice (if there isn't such a thing, there should be). But the point of free speech isn't to protect popular speech, its to protect unpopular speech.
There have been cultural luddites for thousands of years, wringing their hands over foul language and how the younger generation shows no respect for their elders. And for thousands of years they've been wrong, every step of the way.
Just yesterday, somebody with those asshole lights was tailgating me, you know, the ultra-bright lights which are probably very good off-road, but when blasting through your rear-view mirror by an asshole tailgater, they make it IMPOSSIBLE to safely change lanes.
Yeah, I was driving my dad's SUV when I (doing the speed limit) passed a truck pulling a trailer, and the asshole put his brights on me. At that moment I wish I had a James Bondian type console, hit a button, and a large mirror would shoot up from my dad's tailgate, covering the rear window. Instant blindness for Mr. Dickhead behind me.
You hit them because YOU WERE TAILGATING.
And because you were DRIVING WAY TOO SLOW. If the cop has any sense he'll give BOTH of you reckless driving tickets. Driving too slow can be just as much of a hazard as driving too fast.
Dude. Your driving imposes costs upon everyone else.
Dude, your crazy self-centered argument could apply to everything. Why should I pay for fire and police protection in your part of the city, when different stations cover mine. Why should I pay anything towards the U.S. military, when I don't life in a large city and am under no threat from terrorist attacks.
And you ask all taxpayers to pay for your driving. Even your local neighbor who doesn't drive. Has to pay for your roads.
Thats because all taxpayers benefit from having good roads, regaurdless of how much they drive.
Red herring. Seriously, every time some new network pops up, people wring their hands and say "oh, wont somebody please think if the kiddie porn!"
I have one too, but don't feel like digging around the back of my computer to see if its the same model. Mine only bitches when there isn't a keyboard plugged into the keyboard port. So I plug in my cheapass, extra usb keyboard (coincidently made by Belkin) and I'm good to go.
If you're comparing a 2 port to a 4 port switch, of course the 2 porter is going to cost a lot less. So how much is CompactCable's 4 port switch?
...only if the iMac and eMacs were the only computers that Apple made. As they aren't, I don't see that you have much of a point. People don't bitch at Shuttle for not putting out compact boxes with 6 PCI slots for the cost of an X-
Box.
People usually argue that enthusiasts like myself should be buying PowerMacs, but the whole point is that a $500 PC is just as capable of doing these things as a $2000 PowerMac.
Once you add all the stuff you are talking about, its not going to be $500 anymore. Duh. And PowerMacs aren't $2000, either. If you want a deal, either wait till Apple updates the line, and grab a unsold machine of the previous generation for a hefty discount. Or if you don't want to wait, get a refurb, they have the same warranty. The cheapest one they list at the online store is a 1.8 GHz 512MB 160GB SuperDrive for $1400.
If you're complaining that Apple doens't offer a cheap box of parts, just stop because its not going to happen, and that chestnut is older than Ray Charles's great grandfather, and Ray himself is old. And dead.
As for your list, Firewire makes just about everything on your list irrelevant, and iMacs have had Firewire for what, five years now? Six? As for having two giganics, just how many people need two on a personal computer? Certainally not for a firewall.
To a minority, they do matter
Keep in mind that having a plethora of models for every conceivable minority was killing Apple in the mid-90's. Unless there's a major shift in the computing industry, Apple will never deviate from having seperate "consumer" and "pro" lines.
As for using even a first gen iMac...how many cable/dsl modems DON'T have a usb port? And even if they don't, you can get USB -> ethernet adapters pretty cheaply these days. Boom, firewall.
I am not talking about the level of users that are on slashdot, I am talking about the stereotypical mother/grandmother.
Bully for them. However, the majority of users make use of the second mouse button all the time (its indispensible in Windows), and that majority grows all the time as kids learn to use computers and old fogeys kick the bucket.
Maybe they're deliberatly pulling New Coke style schenanigans? :)
Do it based on percentages, or maybe 5 years worth of profits. But along with this would necessarily come more inspectors for oversight...because if the threat of severe punishment were enough, we wouldn't have any drug users in the United States, especially New York state. However, the fines would probably pay for the inspectors, and then some.
This would also help reduce the number of lawsuits. Right now a lawsuit and a good attorney are your only weapons as an employee/consumer, but advocates of "tort reform" want to limit lawsuits so much that they are meaningless to any defendant who has enough money.
Excuse me for hitting Submit instead of preview acidentally.
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You're excused.
I DID prove my points, thank you.
Not really. Your responce either consisted of "you know nothing of Opera" or were unreadable italics.
And you, are obviously misinformed, because you made a comment that was false.
As I said before, if you're plugging Opera, its your job to show its superiority, not just two word bullets like "its faster".
Why not narrow it down to three or four features that you think put Opera head and shoulders above Firefox, back them up logically, use the preview button, and I will give them serious consideration.
Whether intentional or not, I think you are dead on - the anti-drug commercials have continued to shatter my mind as they break through new barriers of stupidity.
Dude, have you ever heard Bill Hick's rant on drug commercials? He died about ten years ago, and its still funny shit. If you're interested I could mail it to you. I just about crapped my liver from laughing so hard the first time I heard it.
one could say that the Left hates Christianity
Based on what, exactly?
uses minorities during elections and then forgets about them
Again, based on what? The Democcratic party generally panders to them full time, just as the GOP panders to the religious right full time.
hates freedom of speech [and opposing viewpoints to such and extent they want to cut off people's right to give those viewpoints.. just look at Fox News, and the Left's complete hatred of that].
Blah blah blah. Show me some liberals who seriously say that Fox should be taken off the air, infringing their freedom of speech. They wouldn't have nearly as much a problem with Fox if Fox were just honest about their reporting, instead of parading it as "fair and balanced".
I don't think (or at least would hope) that people represent the Left as a whole, any more than what you stated about the Right.
Oh, you can find dicks all over, certainally the Democratic party is no exception. I would have a very, very hard time voting for Hillary Clinton, but she's the only pure dickheaded Democrat in a position of power that I can name. As opposed to Rumsfield, Cheney, Delay, Lott, Santorum, and so on.
The left peddles hate just as much (if not more) on the internet.
The vast majority of that is a responce to neocon hate. Hating the haters so to speak. As in they hate dittoheads and the morons passing gay marriage amendments, not Farmer Joe down the road who has been voting Republican since 1954.
Just check out DemocraticUnderground for some vivid examples of how left coasters look down their noses at the rest of the country. That's hate right there.
No, thats redneck elitism speaking right there. Just because you never went to college, drive a Ford pickup and watch NASCAR doesn't mean you're any more of an American than an drama major sipping lattes in a NYC cafe. He's just as free to look down on you as you look down on him.
Don't kid yourself... There are a lot of lunatics to go around, on both sides.
The difference being that the left wing loonies don't have control of the DFL, the way the neocons currently dominate the GOP.
Yes, exactly. If CBS or the NYT fuckup, its an uproar. Fox has similar or greater fucks up on a regular basis, nobody cares, because its Fox and everyone knows they are hacks.
I'm not sure how you missed this.. Democrats represent plenty of big monied interest themselves.
He didn't miss it. Somebody put it best, as that big business rents the Democratic party from time to time (see Hollywood and the DMCA) but it co-owns the GOP along with the religious right.
John Kerry, oh sure, he's a real "people's man" who grew up among... err wait, he's stinking rich, isn't he?
Well lets see, he's a deocrated Vietnam Vet, and has spent over half of his life in public service, as opposed to Bush who was in "drunken frat boy" mode until he was 40. And he's 'stinking' rich because of his wife, whome he wasn't born married to. And if you're a Bush supporter, its pretty hypocritical to bash Kerry for his suposed 'elitism', since Dubbya has never had to work for a living or worry about his future.
I also find it humorous that people who support tax cuts are 'greedy'.
Because they generally are? Wanting a frugal government is one thing, but having tax cuts for the sake of having tax cuts is another.
play robin-hood and siphon money from my pocket to produce social welfare program for the children/puppies/old people/environment/insert my cause of the day here
And you wonder why people think you're greedy. Just because your tax dollars don't come back to you directly doesn't mean don't benefit from them. And yes that includes social programs.
I'm not a rich man, I squeak out my living as I can.
How'd you like your $300 cut of the trillion dollar income tax deduction? Where you excstatic to find out that payroll taxes weren't going to be cut at all?
I read the republican *platform* and smile in admiration, but year after year, it is completely ignored by those in office.
Ignored? How about completely abandoned? Everything from non-intrusive government (gay marriage amendments, Patriot Act) to 'smaller government' (Homeland Security, No Child Left Behind) to responsible federal budgeting (extending the debt limit so we can have an even bigger deficit).
Not that the Democratic party isn't in a mess...no goals, 'moving to the center' even though it keeps costing them elections, modeling their responces to GOP attacks on the Dukakis campaign, weak responces to the GOP's 40 year lead on PR. But at least they don't consistently act against their supposed core principles the way the GOP leadership does.
How much critism from the mainstream media did he really get for NAFTA?
Why would they? NAFTA was a bipartisan peice of legislation and passed with plenty of votes. And free trade was just as much an issue for Republicans as it was for Clinton.
Or bombing Kosovo?
WTF are you talking about here? Kosovo was one of the most bloodless (for us) operations in history. It stopped Serbia from invading Kosovo and putting over a million people out of their homes. So I say again, wtf are you talking about?
As for non-sex scandals, I have three words for you: Whitewater and Hillary Clinton.