Posted on 10/08/2004 5:43:50 PM PDT by andrew1957
October 8th Bush/Kerry Debate
I turned off MSM and listened to the call-ins to C-Span. Most said Bush won the debate. Some great calls tonight!
They are not doing so because they want to. This oligopoly would love to charge a higher price in other markets, but the governments there have formally and informally instituted price controls.
A Machiavellian would love your strategy as it would end the price controls in other countries--drug co. would sell only here if the price controls didn't budge in an upward direction.
I completely understand the freeloader aspect of what's going on. Drug co. should refuse to sell in those countries, but I reject intereference with their selection of price here.
Those "flash polls" are like black powder, the smoke and stench of them drift away on the wind...although they are fun to shoot...lol, but it's tuff to hit anything with 'em...
I wish President Bush would've had time to say,"I have undoubtedly made a couple of mistakes,because when you actually DO something that can happen. Senator Kerry would've actually had to DO something in the Senate for twenty years,to make a mistake."
Breaking---Bombing at polling station in Afghanistan
Or raise the price until supply equals demand. Free market at work, and all that.
(Canadians are gonna generally be P.O.'d if that happens)
Hiring Chris Wallace was the lst sign of FOX's catering to the "other side".
Here's the timber company background from a yahoo news article:
"I own a timber company?" Bush asked. "That's news to me." Then he paused and added, "Need some wood?"
That baffling exchange arises from an analysis by the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org debunking Bush's claims that Kerry's plans to raise taxes on the richest Americans would increase the tax burden on 900,000 small businesses.
The analysis found that the Bush campaign is counting every rich person who has even $1 of outside business income as a small business owner, even if they have no employees.
The analysis said even Bush qualifies under that definition because he reported $84 in income from his part-ownership of a timber enterprise on his 2001 federal tax return.
I was talking with a lady friend on the phone for twenty minutes during the debate. What was the context for the wood comment.
No doubt the MSM is biased. But beyond that, they DO want it to be perceived as close, even if it isn't. Think back to previous elections. Even when Clinton was winning big in 1996, it was still "close" if you listened to the media.
Bush did MUCH better. All Kerry did was attack. He never answered any questions. Bush started strong, I thought a little weak in the middle, but finished strong. It will be interesting to see how Kerry's performance plays to the masses. Because he was just an attack dog.
Yeah, a troll who has been here since 2000.
You found me out. /sarcasm
Excuse me for saying where he could have done better.
He still hit it out of the park.
Yup.
I think Begala is a bush baby, no pun intended.
Cheney misspoke. It's Factcheck.org.
And it's WhiteHouse.org
The dot.com is a porn site.
Real well for W.
Let's just say my ma ma was a most naive person, and there seems to be a in my "genes"!
Right. (Kerry): I "respect" your point of view and your beliefs/feelings only because we're on nat TV and you've already expressed yourself. But you must be TOLERANT of my more enlightened view, and of course, once I am in power, trust me, your view WILL be silenced... /disgust
Thalidomide is the drug you are talking about. Bad stuff!
No, it's whitehouse.gov.
No drug companies could sell at any price they wanted to, just not price discriminate. They would sell at any price they wanted to in the US, and the freeloaders in the other "rich" countries, would either pay the same price, adjusted for volume sale cost savings, or do without. Drug companies will always deem it mandatory to sell in the American market and will, and will have to, in order to fund drug research.
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