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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

A Desertion of Common Sense

By Kim Petersen

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Posted 09/15 |

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This whole issue is a distraction. Bush has been the prez for over 3 and a half years. He has a record and he should be judged on that, not whether or not he did something that he shouldn’t be blamed for doing.

Posted by micah holmquist from on 09/15 at 02:08 PM

I must respectfully disagree. Otherwise it is implied that attaining the presidency through fraud is irrelevant?

Again, with all due respect, the election itself is a distraction from the fact that the so-called democratic system is a farce and should be scrapped and replaced with a people-centered system.

Why the system is farcical and why it needs to be scrapped is relevant.

Posted by kim from on 09/15 at 03:29 PM

So George was scared of killing yellow people. At least the anti-war challenger killed many yellow people. And he brags about it. I think George should start bragging about NOT going to Vietnam. I mean, it’s not like it was a good war.

Posted by Kap Fulton from on 09/15 at 06:19 PM

“Good” war?

Posted by Mickey Z. from on 09/15 at 06:25 PM

Seven years ago the kids on my street played a very aggressive form of Capture the Flag...that was a damn good war.

Posted by Kap Fulton from on 09/15 at 07:08 PM

Were any of those kids terrorists? They weren’t burning the flag after they captured it, I hope.

Posted by Mickey Z. from on 09/15 at 07:45 PM

Kim,

My comments were made in haste and thus may have come across wrong. In the technical sense, I do believe this is an issue, but as fraud in Team Bush goes, this is minor to the point of being unimportant. One can say that it makes Bush into a hypocrite, but so what? The “war on terror” would be no more justified if the prez was a decorated war hero who had no questionable actions in her/his background.

FWIW, if Kerry didn’t feel the need to brag about his stint in the military, I wouldn’t hold his actions in the Vietnam intervention against him, which doesn’t mean I would support him by any means, since he did have an admirable record of speaking out and exposing the intervention once he got back to the United States.

As far as capture the flag goes, I think there are a whole lot of YMCA campers and counselors that need to be rounded up.

Posted by micah holmquist from on 09/16 at 08:53 AM