I came across this article in this month's Reason Magazine, although this online version has hyperlinks the print version doesn't (obviously). Sometimes I get annoyed with over-hyperlinking because you get distracted with other articles and lose track of what you're reading about in the first place. But they are informative in any case.
I laughed at the description of Kerry as a "sanctimonious statist blowhard."
I've turned into a real swing voter in recent times. Just yesterday I was reading an article in BusinessWeek about Bush's "Ownership Society", which, while not perfect, almost makes me want to vote for him. Almost. And then I read Reason and I learned deeply what it's like to have to choose the lesser of two evils.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Makes you sick doesn't it? Kerry doesn't support gay marriages but he's definately not Bush so the LGBT community is behind Kerry.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"[Kerry] voted for the war in Iraq..."
Y'know, no matter how often people keep saying that, it's not going to be come any less false.
No-one in Congress voted for or against the Iraq war. They voted to give Bush the authority to use the military there if necessary. Bush was the one who abused that authority.
Imagine this: A friend comes to you and asks to borrow a gun. They say they might need it for defensive purposes. And let's say your friend was recently attacked, and so you feel inclined to help out. So you give your friend the gun, and they immediately go out and start shooting people with it, unprovoked. Now, should you really e accused of having approved of your friend's actions, just because you gave them a weapon and trusted them not to misuse it?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...he's also got problems that Bush doesn't have, like his support for stricter gun controls."
Isn't that like saying "he has problems Bush doesn't have, like being a Democrat"?
"Kerry doesn't support gay marriages..."
Doesn't this fall under his not legislating his religious beliefs, like with abortion?
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
This is a Libertarian magazine, hence the position against stricter gun control.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote:Isn't that like saying "he has problems Bush doesn't have, like being a Democrat"?
(I've read, well, none of these, so I'm not vouching for the validity of any particular reason.)
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
quote:5. Patriot and its progeny.
My wife and I are buying a new house. We had to sign a form, apparently called for in the Patriot Act, and required as part of the loan process, in which we essentially certified that we were not going to use the transaction to launder money to aid terrorists.