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How do you feel about not allowing adults to carry fingernail files on airliners?

It was asked of him and he answered. He was asked why he voted for the 87 billion before voting against it. His answer, because the first bill rolled back Bush's tax cuts to fund it and the second increased the deficit instead. He admitted that he changed his vote based on the difference in the bills. That's not answering the question. That's picking out a perceiving flip flop that really wasn't. He dodged many questions on Wednesday night. He lost a chance at my vote when he gave a BS answer to how he would reform Social Security. His answer - change nothing. So I guess I'll leave that part of the ballot blank. Neither of them have a clue how they can get the deficit down. As for your unrelated Bush question, I'd guess the answer is that we don't have more troops to fit such an estimate. We're struggling with the current total as it is. Bush gave the same answer on Social Security as he gave at the RNC in 2000. He didn't follow through then (didn't even try), why do you think he will follow through now?

Since Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney and Mary Cheney have all spoken about it in public and on radio or TV, how does it suddenly become a private matter? No - the indignation is fabricated for political gain. I don't have a "pejudice" either. I do have a "pairo'dice" though

Go on, we're waiting.

Dude, that's your interpretation, you're seeing and supposing things that aren't there. Fine. I'm waiting to hear your interpretation of Lynne Cheney's on-the-record statement denying her daughter's declaration of homosexuality. I'm waiting to hear your interpretation of Dick Cheney's anti-gay voting record as a congressman.

Sounds more like an "it's none of your damned business" kind of remark. This illustrates the problem here, we have a woman who never asked for her sexuality to be discussed nationally and everything is cynically interpreted through a prism of supposed prejudice. How the hell do you know what relationship she has with her Mother? Pure speculation and colored by what you hope and imagine to be there. It's your demons speaking not Cheney's. Lynne Cheney saying "My daughter has never declared such a thing" is on the record, after her daughter HAD declared such a thing. It's called "denial". Is this like Dick Cherney saying he had never meet Edwards when the record showed he had met him several times? Is this like Bush denying that he'd said Osama bin Laden was not a priority when the record shows that he had said that? Why do I have "demons" for pointing out Bush/Cheney hypocrisy?

That is so not true. Inability of leaders to admit error led directly to the carnage of World War I. It led to US embarrassment in Vietnam, and it led to NASA's Challenger disaster.

www.uspa.org/publications/manuals.pdf/SCM.1-5_May2004.pdf See page 7. In essence, be US citizen or permanent resident, have appropriate license, and NOT have competed for another country or in their national championships for last 3 years. Applies to all team members.

www.canada.com/maritimes/news/story.html?id=16bf4ede-af63-4c40-87d6-1e1f5764d5ef (Article includes a great picture of George Bush.)

In answer to a direct question about homosexuality: Kerry: "We're all God's children. I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." In answer to a direct question from Cokie Roberts about her openly gay daughter in an interview in 2000, Lynne Cheney said "My daughter has never declared such a thing." Lynne Cheney apparently has a problem accepting her daughter's sexuality. Perhaps that's why she's so "indignant" now at mention of it. Dick Cheney has one of the most anti-gay voting records of any current or former congressman.

But it wasn't Cheney who was saying the really offensive things -- it was some other Republican. Wendy W. This? www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-keyes02.html

Keep it in perspective. "Penny wise, pound foolish". The problem isn't the half million dollar party. The party is merely a symptom of the overall problem. In the midst of a recession and under an ever-growing threat of terrorism, one branch of the Office of Homeland Security feels justified in spending half a million dollars on what basically amounts to a grammar school awards assembly to hand out plaques to government employees for doing the jobs they are paid to do. They even went so far as to hand out "Lifetime Achievement Awards" for service to a government agency that has only been in existence for two years. The TSA needs to leave the awards banquets to the entertainment industry and focus on the job at hand. True, but shouldn't someone be worrying about the rest of the $412 billion debt the government is running up this year with no plan to pay it off? I'm worried about all of the debt the government is incurring, but when tax dollars are so egregiously misspent, the American people need to take note. Sure, it may be less than 0.0015% of that $412 Billion, but you throw away half a million here and half a million there, and before you know it, it's real money. $200,000 represents roughly 10 SECONDS worth of government debt build up right now. Not 10 seconds worth of government spending, which is way way more than $200,000, but 10 seconds worth of increase in govt. DEBT.

Really? Major gaffes in the debates: 1. Cheney saying he'd never seen Edwards before, when there are photos of them together. Duh. 2. Bush saying it was an exaggeration when Kerry said OBL was not a Bush priority, when the White House's own transcripts have Bush saying exactly that. Duh. 3. Kerry bringing up Cheney's lesbian daughter when there was no point. Duh. All other errors were minor. Kerry clearly won all three, but Bush was improving.

Keep it in perspective. "Penny wise, pound foolish".

Drop in the bucket. The deficit is $412 billion according to today's report.

www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=6505677

They had to do something with their tax savings.

To think such a thing is UNAMERICAN... I believe that distrust of government is highly American and very patriotic. Isn't it a central theme of conservatism?

Technically, oil companies do profit from the prices being higher... but not for long. It depends on the contracts they have to buy oil at fixed prices. These contracts aren't usually very long term, since no good trader would bet it all on something as volatile as oil. Keep in mind, if the oil prices drop, the same companies lose money. Either way, it's all relatively short term until the prices become somewhat stable. I do see a paradox here though... if you guys are all over saying that Bush and his "oil buddies" are guilty of wanting the oil prices inflated... how can you turn around and say that this war is for oil, since that would lower oil prices if we got ahold of Iraqi oil in large amounts? We don't actually know what Bush wants because the membership and deliberations of his energy policy committee have been kept secret from the people. Considering the behavior of companies like Enron, run by Bush personal friend, anything could be possible for Bush's goals and objectives.

And to this http://mt.sopris.net/mpc/military/v/firing.panel.jpg the firing panel of the first a-bomb test (Trinity)

Countries that are building reactors that "could" create weapons-grade fuel are deemed a threat by everyone. Yet, a country with tools that "could" build nuclear weapons is not going to do that? Why because the UN was supervising? The same people who were trading oil for missile parts instead of oil for food? Where did they get a bunch of credibility from? I suppose that he would never use the missile parts to build missiles either. It is amazing how people select the facts to conform to their opinion. Are you saying Duelfer and the CIA got it wrong again? Were Blix and Al-Baradei related to the oil for food program? Are you saying that the US did not inherit sealed and secured facilities and then fail to properly protect them?

That is a correct statement. Still doesn't excuse his outrageous comments. BTW...isn't Bush the only president to fund Stem Cell Research? Hmmmmm. Good point, why didn't Nixon or Hoover or Reagan fund it?

There's no guarantee of success with any research. There is a guarantee of failure if you don't do the research.

Wait a minute, I'm confused... The Democrats have been saying that President Bush lied about his justification for going to war against Iraq, saying that it had no weapons of mass destruction, nor any programs to make them. And now they're saying that Iraq was working on a nuclear bomb! There are two possibilities here: 1) They're lying about President Bush's motive for war, or; 2) They're lying about the nuclear equipment. If there wasn't any effort by Hussein to build a nuclear bomb, then there wouldn't be any of this equipment that they now say is missing. Which is it? It can't be both ways. I wish the anti-Bush people would make up their minds! You could try reading the article before jumping in with a silly response.

You are supposed to put a with statements like that or people will think you are a nutcase.