(Molly Ivens in the rag I grew up reading!)
May I remind you what this election is about? Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, unprecedented presidential powers, unmatched incompetence, unparalleled corruption, unwarranted eavesdropping, Katrina, Enron, Halliburton, global warming, Dick Cheney's secret energy task force, record oil company profits, $3 gasoline, FEMA, the Supreme Court, Diebold, Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, Terri Schiavo, stem cell research, golden parachutes, shrunken pensions, unavailable and expensive health care, habeas corpus, no weapons of mass destruction, sacrificed soldiers and Iraqi civilians, wasted billions, Taliban resurgence, expiration of the assault weapons ban, North Korea, Iran, intelligent design, Swift Boat hit squads, and on and on.
Let's not lose sight of the real issues
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And, stem cell issue which Mother Jones forgets to differentiate into the two almost diametric areas, Adult Stem Cell and Embryonic Stem Cell. Well, the lefties don't always use words for their definitions.
But beyond that stem cell issue raises other questions of life and death and of privacy that increasingly lie just below the surface of political debate. Every so often they emerge in highly charged debate that eventually draws the local, state and federal governmental agencies, the Congress and the court system into deciding whether a person should live or die, whether the state can intrude on an individual's privacy the case of Terri Schiavo providing the most recent example.
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It's about $1.85 gasoline. 4.4% unemployment (phenomenally low!) and an all-time record-high stock market.
If Molly Ivins says it's the issue, it isn't.