I’ll probably write something more detailed and articulate, but then again, I might decide to get a life.
1) John Edwards is growing on me. He has charisma, he’s a decent politician. He has a southern accent and can charm southern voters.
2) Can someone articulate for me why Kerry ‘sucks’, as my liberal friends keep saying? (Besides the fact that he voted for the war and looks like a tree)
3) I really don’t think its a big deal that Kerry and Edwards voted for the war. Luckily, most Democratic voters don’t seem to think so either.
4) Dean did not invent the concept of civil unions. Dean was also not revolutionary in his support of civil unions. But he did not invent the concept. (Just like Al Gore didn’t invent the internet, hehe) ((yes but Al Gore did take the initiative to fund the project which started the internet in the 80s, if anyone cares))
5) I like Clark better than Kerry in terms of the military men in this race. However, I think a lot of votes that could have gone to Edwards went to Clark. And I like Edwards better than Clark, so I want Clark to drop out
6)Dean even lost to Al Sharpton!
7) People who endorsed Dean really screwed up. First of all, it is really dumb to endorse a candidate that early (ie, the Al Gore endorsement…it made no sense to do a YEAR before the election). Now there are all these pledged delegates who are realizing “Uh, maybe this guy doesn’t have the support we thought he did”. A man supported by college liberals does not a presidential candidate make. (I wrote that sentence just so I could phrase it like that, because I am so cool)
8. Al Sharpton should be given his own TV show. Maybe he can take over the daily show and Jon Stewart can run for president
9) The Daily Show last night rocked, and I want to marry Jon Stewart
10)There should be an industry devoted to gambling on politics
Says:
People who endorsed Dean really screwed up.
You know what messes my head up? The kids who are like “I don’t know how I could vote for anyone but Dean!” Some kid was quoted in Time talking about how all the other candidates are old politics and Dean isn’t.
There should be an industry devoted to gambling on politics
Brent knows about gambling, maybe you two should start a website
February 5th, 2004 at 3:51 pmSays:
you rock
“1) John Edwards is growing on me. He has charisma, he’s a decent politician. He has a southern accent and can charm southern voters.”
-I agree…I’m a little shaky on some of his stances about certain issues, but I like him. I particularly like that he didn’t get into the whole mudslinging mess back in the early stages of the primaries.
“3) I really don’t think its a big deal that Kerry and Edwards voted for the war. Luckily, most Democratic voters don’t seem to think so either.”
-As to this…whatever…the way I see it at that point in time if you voted for the war, good for you, if you voted against the war, you were strung up in Senate. Newsflash Deany-boy…nearly EVERYONE voted FOR the war…old news. so old.
“4) Dean did not invent the concept of civil unions. Dean was also not revolutionary in his support of civil unions. Its great that he backed them as govenor, and I certainly support his efforts. But he did not invent the concept. (Just like Al Gore didn’t invent the internet, hehe) ((yes but Al Gore did take the initiative to fund the project which started the internet in the 80s, if anyone cares))”
-Furthermore contrary to many what many within the GLBTQ community thinks, Dean really isn’t all that great for gay folks. If people actually took the time to go back and look at what Dean was debating back and forth about during the whole civil unions vs. gay marriage thing, I think they’d find that Dean is on par with Kerry. They’re both against gay marriage (and civil unions are NOT the same thing no matter how much the politicians, and some gay activists for that matter, try to dress it up with pretty rainbow ribbons) whereas Edwards actually stated that marriage is a state’s rights issue and while he didn’t come out in support of gay marriage, he also didn’t come out as condemning the recent MA decision either.
“7) People who endorsed Dean really screwed up. First of all, it is really dumb to endorse a candidate that early (ie, the Al Gore endorsement…it made no sense to do a YEAR before the election). Now there are all these pledged delegates who are realizing “Uh, maybe this guy doesn’t have the support we thought he did”. A man supported by college liberals does not a presidential candidate make. (I wrote that sentence just so I could phrase it like that, because I am so cool)”
-no duh AND I just want to state that I was attacked on several fronts by other people who fall into the same categories as I do as A) Democrats; B) liberal arts college grads; C) women and D) lesbians, when I said I didn’t support Dean because his policies were pretty shitty and I don’t trust a man who looks like a woodchuck when he’s trying to smile. And yeah, Sassy…you ARE cool
“9) The Daily Show last night rocked, and I want to marry Jon Stewart”
-Now there’s a man that makes me rethink this whole engaged to a woman thing.
“10)There should be an industry devoted to gambling on politics”
-I’ve got Kerry by a 25 delegate spread over Dean early in the first quarter of the Wisconsin bowl, like tailgate party early. I’ve also got Kucinich, yes that’s right Kucinich over Dean in Maine by a nose. Hmm…you know if we thought this through we could probably make a ton of money off of like-minded political science/government students and could totally scam the Greens. Whaddya say? Grad schools and law schools are kinda expensive…this might make some sense.
-one guess as to who THIS is
February 8th, 2004 at 1:09 pm