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I only hope that Thursday night’s debate finally sent a clear message to the undecided and swing voters in this country about who deserves to win the election come November 2 and lead this country back from where it has strayed. Thursday night we saw two very different men standing before us. John Kerry showed us his true colors. He was humble, where Bush was arrogant, he was elegant, where Bush was awkward, he was articulate, where Bush was unintelligent, he was experienced, where Bush was immature, he was clarifying where Bush was redundant, he was concise, where Bush was...

Letter: Time to compromise We cannot achieve 100 percent safety from those who seek to destroy us. A half -ton of garden fertilizer with suitable additives fitted into the trunk of a car would blow a hole the size of a bus through the pavement down into the subway lines below and up to the buildings above. The reason we've not been victim of such an attack is our enemy's probable lack of funds. All the money in the U.S. Treasury cannot prevent such an eventual, inevitable tragedy despite the costly efforts of our Homeland Security. Remember, many great empires...

Eeven the ditziest blondes in Hollywood feel the need to pipe up with their opinions about presidential elections. On her cheesy Web site, Melanie Griffith opines: "I am a full-blown Democrat. I always have been. I did visit President George Bush Sr. [sic] and his wife when they were in the White House. However, I feel their son is in there without truly having won the election. I think he is a C-minus president. Don't you have to have straight A's to be valedictorian of a college class? " "How is it possible that we, the great country of America,...

In Canada, if the Prime Minister took over a record $230 billion surplus and four years later had turned it into a $300 billion plus deficit there would be no fn way that he'd be elected to another term. He'd be toast. Bush will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to have a net loss of jobs during his tenure. If this was an election in any western democracy but the States they'd throw the bums out just for this singularly inept economic performance. No question. But Bush faced no challenge for the Republican nomination and is not just...

I think it is absolutely hilarious how you people get so upset by what others have to say about you. Are you really THAT insecure about being a republican that you have to bash down anyone else's views. REPUBLICAN IS NOT the only party out there. Deal with it. Bush is a moron. The war on terrorism is stupid. I think Ani Difranco summarized it best in her poem. So how about you quit your whinning and deal with the fact that the whole worlds population IS NOT REPUBLICAN. If I remember correctly, freedom of speech is one of our...

Like a lot of you, I was willing to cut Nick Berg's father a lot of slack considering the tragedy of his son's death, but this is disgusting: George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes. Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives.

WHEN I eulogized my son Nick, I said that he was my teacher and my hero. He was the kindest, gentlest man I know -- no, the kindest, gentlest human being I know or have ever known. Did you know that he quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun? Nick, too, poured into me the strength I needed and still need to tell the world about him.

George Bush never looked into Nick's eyes Even more than the murderers who took my son's life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives Michael Berg Friday May 21, 2004 The Guardian My son, Nick, was my teacher and my hero. He was the kindest, gentlest man I know; no, the kindest, gentlest human being I have ever known. He quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun. Nick, too, poured into me the strength I needed, and still need, to tell the world about him. People ask me why...

> > by Charley Reese > > If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are > constantly being propagandized to approve of war - not just the wars in > Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. > > We should resist. War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings. It > is so disgusting and horrible in reality that even the most "realistic" > Hollywood movie sanitizes it. The news media sanitize it. The government > sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. Most of all, > it...

The High Representative of the European Union for the Foreign policy and Seguridad Comu'n (PESC), Javier Solana, noticed of the inconvenience of an out of proportion reaction the terrorist threat and affirmed that Europe is not "in war" against the terrorism after the attacks of Madrid. After the attacks, in which 202 people died, "Europe is not in war", emphasized Solana in an interview granted to the newspaper German ' Bild a.m. Sonntag'. "We must energetically oppose the terrorism to us, but we do not have to change our form of life. We are democrats who love their freedom. If...

Why Can’t Bubba Vote Democrat? by Allen Snyder OpEdNews.Com ‘Bubba’, you may recall, is the generic name for the guy Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean appealed to; the blue-collar white guy with the pick-up, Confederate Flag (if he’s a Southerner – the North has its Bubbas, too), gun rack, spit cup, NASCAR ball cap, ‘I Pledge to One Nation Under God’ bumper sticker, and big chip on his shoulder. It’s false that people who like NASCAR, Confederate flags, and guns are Bubbas and, being a professional critical thinker, I see the gross overgeneralization involved in saying so. Instead, we’ll say...