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I don't usually get really worked up too much over specific news reports. But this time it is going too far.

First I read this article in CNSNews about how an anonymous email is being spread stating that President Bush is planning on reinstituting the draft next summer. Apparently there are enough specifics in the email to make it sound very authentic.

The problem is that it was/is anti-War Democrats who have sponsored the bills in question, and who have campaigned for their passage. The White House is firmly set AGAINST the draft.

So, I went looking for some collaboration on the news. It isn't that I don't trust CNSNews, but I figured that someone else would be talking about it. Not much word about it, but I finally found this article in the Rocky Mountain News. It substantiates the claims.

You might question why this is any worse than other rumors that spread through the internet via emails. Well, like a lot of recent hoaxes, it urges people to forward the email to everyone they can think of, especially parents and grandparents of teenage children. Well, most people don't bother to ever check the validity of these types of chain mail, they just get outraged and forward the message along.

But now, just 5 weeks before the presidential election, this is sure to raise a firestorm. And very few people will want to know the truth of the rumour, as there have been rumblings about it for a couple of years, and the email just seems to support the rumblings.

Personally, I see it as a desperate effort by the DNC to stir up support for John Kerry. More and more, the poll numbers are coming back showing that he is falling behind in key states, and may even be vulnerable in some states thought to be firmly in his camp.

Now the big question. Will it work?

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There are some questions that most people are avoiding asking right now. They are simple, fairly easy to answer, and very important to this election.

Who would Hamas and Hezbollah prefer to be President of the US? Why?

Who would Iran prefer to be President?

Who would be better for North Korea? China?

The reason that people won't ask these questions is that the answer is so very clear. The Secretary General of Hezbollah makes it abundantly clear who he DOESN'T want in the White House:
Click here for the story.

Why doesn't he want Bush, Rumsfeld, and Rice in the White House? Because they are frustrating the plans of Hezbollah.

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NETWORKS BALK AT BUSH-KERRY DEBATE AGREEMENT

Although the Bush and Kerry camps have meticulously crafted an agreement on
the rules for this year's presidential debates, the television networks
broadcasting them refuse to go along with the plans.

We'll take you inside both campaigns to find out how the networks' stance will
affect the candidates. Kerry Sr. Adviser Mike McCurry and Bush Sr. Adviser
Mary Matalin join us.

Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/28/...sion/index.html

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So what is the verdict? Who did better in the debate? Personally I think Bush made the mistake of repeating himself too much. Kerry's big mistake is not really saying how his 'better' plan is specifically different from Bush's current strategy.

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It seems like Kerry won this first debate based on the stadistics. He looked more 'presidential' he was less emotional than Bush (you could see he was very upset at certain moments when he was listening Kerry's statements). And Bush could not directly answer the fact of why he went to war against Iraq and not focus his whole attention in Afghanistan when the reports proved that Iraq did not have any involvment with the 9/11 attack.
Kerry lacked specific plans and that would be a big deal for me if I was an American. Nevertheless, he looked stronger than Bush on the debate.

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Kerry may be a better public speaker, but that won't make him a better president. Just because he "looks presidential" doesn't make him qualified to be president. He still can't say what his plan is, only that *IF* it's implemented it will somehow be better than what's happening now. He still can't justify his voting against the $87B for equipment for the troops -- and he tries to point the blame at Bush for not providing that equipment!

I agree, Bush tended to repeat himself a bit much. He also seemed to me to be in a state of exhaustion... But he speaks from the heart, he speaks with conviction, and he has compassion for us, for our troops, and for the people of the world.

IMO
Roz

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I don't pay attention to the debates. I don't use them as a means to make my voting decision. I doubt I am the only one. To me, voting record in the past is the biggest factor in deciding. I am not so much interested in what the tell me they will do as President. I want to know what they did in their other political offices. A politician will promise me anything to get my vote, but their actually prior voting record speaks only the truth.

So, I don't think the debate is all that important, at least not to me. I must admit, I would have been happier if the reports indicated Bush had done better.

I don't consider a lack of emotion a qualification for being president. To me, it is a bonus that Bush feels things deeply. I think it makes him more human/humane/normal. Of course, I thought Howard Dean went to far with emotions in the primaries. It is o.k. to feel, but you must still control them. I don't mind seeing the emotion on your face, but you shouldn't let it control your actions.

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I understand and I agree with both of you, image is not a qualification alone but I do strongly feel that a President should learn how to control his emotions.

Compassion? don't you think is a word kind of 'big' for a politician that sent a country to war when that country was proven had not conection with 9/11?. Now, I know we do not agree with how we see President Bush but compassion for the people of the world? sorry but with all respect, sounds laughable and I think in the quote 'Your actions speak so loud that I cannot hear what you are saying'. I'm terrified that if Bush is elected again he will send the US to another war again....it frightens me.