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I wish that the Swift Boat people would stop arguing about the medals and move onto the lies Kerry spread in front of Congress in the 1970s and 1980s. Claiming that he and other solders regularly participated in war crimes pisses me off to no end, as my father is a Vietnam vet and a great deal of my teachers and older friends were vets as well. At least one of the vets, who became the warden of Parchman penitentiary in Mississippi as well as a professor of criminal justice, was attacked on his way back from Vietnam because he had to switch planes in San Francisco. The labeling of veterans as baby-killers helped fuel opposition to the war and direct frustration about it onto normal guys who were already having trouble coping with what they'd seen over there.

Saturday, August 28th USC Thursday, September 2nd Utah TCU Friday, September 3rd Washington State Tiebreaker #2 Saturday, September 4th Michigan Oklahoma California Virginia Michigan State UCLA Clemson LSU Tulane Colorado State Toledo Notre Dame Sunday, September 5th Purdue Louisville Washington Tennessee Monday, September 6th Nevada Pittsburgh Miami - Tiebreaker #1 Tiebreaker #3: How many total points will be scored in the Florida State/Miami game? 55 Tiebreaker #4: How many yards will USC's Matt Leinart throw for against Virginia Tech? 325

OK, finished the Republican campaign by using Reagan... Democratic candidates- 1. Wes Clark 2. Bill Richardson 3. Jimmy Carter 4. Dick Gephardt 5. Al Gore 6. Bill Clinton 7. Lyndon Johnson 8. Woodrow Wilson 9. FDR 10. Thomas Jefferson, sucka! Republican- 1. Condi Rice 2. Arnold Scwartzeneggar 3. William Taft 4. Gerald Ford 5. Ulysses S. Grant 6. Richard Nixon 7. Teddy Roosevelt 8. Ronald Reagan 9. Abe Lincoln 10. George Washington

Sound like these people need a complimentary copy of the new book "Shut The Fuck Up" by Dr. Denis Leary

I'm not the guy who buys what the SwiftVets are saying without any grain of salt. No, you dismiss them out-of-hand. HUGE improvement. Nobody with an IQ above 5 should. Man coddles dictators like nobody else, is fervently anti-Israel, is an absolute jackass. And, fuck, you think BUSH is "holier-than-thou"? Carter takes the damned cake. He should've remained a peanut farmer and not humiliated this country by being the most useless President this century. -=Mike That's slightly debatable... Gerald Ford was pretty goddamn useless, as was Warren G. Harding (president after Woodrow Wilson with the most corrupt cabinet this side of Ulysses S. Grant). The only saving grace for Ford is that he stumbled into the office (no pun intended) through Agnew and Nixon's resignations, meaning he got stuck with their mess, while Carter and Harding were both voted in overwhelmingly and then proceeded to screw up.

Thanx. Unfortunately, Clinton's already unlocked in the normal game, so it's a waste of a campaign IMHO. I think I need to go back to saying I'm a better war-time leader than Lincoln for a while...

OK, does anyone have the complete list of unlockable candidates? From my campaigns, I've faced and/or unlocked the following: Republican- Condoleeza Rice (1st opponent) William Howard Taft Gerald Ford Ulysses S. Grant Teddy Roosevelt Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan *Abe Lincoln (still haven't defeated) Democrat- Wesley Clark (1st opponent) Jimmy Carter Bill Richardson Dick Gephart ?? I know that FDR, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington are all in the game. That still leaves four candidates unaccounted for. Who else is in there? Harry Truman? Woodrow Wilson? Andrew Jackson?

What's funny is that the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, with or without Bush's support or collusion, managed to get more publicity than all of the Democrat 527s combined for a fraction of the money. George Soros spent at least $5 million on MoveOn.org ALONE and they haven't gotten this kind of publicity outside of the "Bush Is Hitler" ad flap.

Occasionally you'll get some good luck. Things I've gotten out of the $5.50 bin: 1. My Fellow Americans (Pan & Scan only, unfortunately) 2. The Deep 3. Fatal Attraction 4. Shane 5. Strange Days 6. Vanilla Sky 7. Airheads Your selection depends on the store involved, but I find that some stores tend to get a LOT of the Paramout DVDs like Vanilla Sky and Shane that are the better values in the bin.

Getting back to strategy tips... As a Democrat, the best way to beat Nixon et all is to build up a lot of endorsements then to do the following: 1. Find a Hollywood director (50% off of all ads in a selected state) 2. Hire at least one Webmaster in that state (75% off maintenance of ads in a selected state) 3. Run ads on every subject of importance until you've hijacked that issue as your own. (Example- Run 15 ads on War On Terror. That makes it an issue important to a high percentage of voters AND will also skew voter opinion on that issue so that you are considered to be a better choice than your opponent) If you want to exploit a bug in the 1.0 version of the program, hire 4-5 webmasters in a single state and create a LOT of ads there. Because of the bug in the program, taking that 75% off for maintenance multiple times ends up CREATING money for you for each ad. I kicked Nixon's ass roughly 470-60 using this strategy as I made about 4-5 issues into ones that 10% or more of voters cared for and I was seen as the better choice on all of these issues. On some like Universal Health Care and The Environment, it was 100% support for me an 0% for Nixon.

Pretty much. They've been suffering since 2001 between WWF New York, the XFL, the failed music label, etc., so this is one of the few periods of time where they aren't taking a huge accounting hit for something. OTOH, they're about to make another big mistake, as this new WWE Movies experiment has "disaster" written all over it. The plan is to make low-cost movies but one of the first plans was a Trips vehicle that they commissioned writer/director John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) to cook up. When you add that into the fact that they've never done a movie before, cost overruns on films with EXPERIENCED personnel and management are a serious problem, and there's no guarantee they can get distribution for it, it has a very ugly downside that is likely to happen.

I'd add Superstar Billy Graham to that list. Mike Tenay has a ballot, as he detailed his voting on WOL some time back, and I think that Larry Matysik (misspelled, I think) has one too. Larry, BTW, was a part of the St. Louis territory's office for a long time under legendary promoter Sam Mushnik.

This is closer to a boardgame that Doonesbury, except that it has a lot less bugs and (supposedly) biases than Doonesbury. The only "biases" per se that I see with Political Machine are that someone got the bright idea of putting Barbara Bush and Laura Bush in as candidates instead of someone like John McCain. (I'd say Bob Dole too, except that Bill Mason seems to be based on him)

Oh, BTW... At least one of the gases that Saddam used was Phosgene Gas, which is based on a mixture of chlorine and ammonia.

My empathy towards the people of Iraq is at a low point today after hearing the members of the Iraqi soccer team speak to the press. A guy who would have been looking at certain torture by Uday and Qusay if they were still in power talking about how he'd be an insurgent if he wasn't competing in the Olympics makes me sick to my fucking stomach. If it was a common citizen saying this, I'd feel sympathetic. A pampered athlete who used to be under threat of torture, mutilation, and death for their performance in international competition shouldn't be biting the hand that freed them.

IMHO, Bush's National Guard service would have been a legitimate issue if they'd stuck to the fact that he was in a unit that was never deployed while Kerry was a combat veteran. However, they decided to go down the "He went AWOL" road and it got dirty when they refused to accept anything that came out to the contrary. Example- Accusations that Bush's records were "conveniently" lost in the mid-90s when the military reported that a bunch of archived 30-year old payroll records were damaged

Saudi Arabia and Iran are IRRELEVANT. Iraq DID have WMD at the time that the UN inspectors were kicked out in the mid-90s and the UN had specifically sanctioned Iraq on this subject but did little to back it up. You may paint a rosy picture on pre-invasion Iraq but it was not all sunshine and lollipops. The Iraqi soccer team, which was featured in an article today proclaiming that if they were not in the Olympics that they'd be part of the insurgency, used to get tortured by Uday and Qusay Hussein when they did not perform up to the standards they expected. The average Iraqi was also getting starved out because Saddam was screwing around with the UN Oil-For-Food fund which was SUPPOSED to be used to feed his people. Investigations are still ongoing in that case but there were MILLIONS in the account that were never used to buy food for his people. Oh, BTW, Clinton and his administration made QUITE a few comments about the weapons that Saddam had and the airstrikes he ordered in 1998 WERE against suspected chemical sites in Iraq. Clinton also advocated a position that something had to be done about Saddam but, frankly, he wasn't in a position to do much of anything at that time.

You're deliberately misunderstanding me... The fact that Saddam couldn't produce documentation about what happened to the weapons indicated one of several things. 1. He still had them 2. He sold them to another country and/or a terrorist organization or 3. He disposed of them in an improper and sloppy manner knowing FULL WELL that the UN Weapons Inspectors were looking over his shoulder and that sanctions against Iraq were staying in place until he could prove he disposed of them properly. Take a look at those three choices and tell me which of them could be eliminated using common sense.

I'm looking at the polls of realclearpolitics.com --- and NONE of the swing states seem to be outside the margin of error presently. I'm still sticking with my historical perspective: If a challenger does not give a real reason for people to vote for him --- namely, fairly sizable differences in present policy --- they will not win the election. -=Mike has a massive panic attack......a nice calm response~! Kerry in 2004 = Dole in 1996... The campaign slogan "Clinton/Gore Out In Four" was NOT enough to get Bob into the White House and Bubba out of it.

1. That still does not constitute a lie. 2. We MIGHT have been willing to do this without going to war if UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix hadn't been doing everything he could do to prevent an invasion. It's one thing if he didn't find any NEW weapons. It's another entirely if he couldn't get the Iraqis to produce documentation that they had destroyed the weapons the UN *PERSONALLY TAGGED* during previous inspections. Considering the amount of material that the UN tagged in the early 90s inspections, it's a BIG red flag if Saddam can't prove that he got rid of it in compliance with UN sanctions and guidelines.

Please bring up a specific instance of Bush lying and do NOT say "about the weapons of mass destruction." All intelligence (and not just ours) says that they were there, they were used in the late 1980s in northern Iraq, and recent evidence indicates that the weapons could have been smuggled to Syria right before the most recent Gulf War. Hell, stuff tagged by the UN Weapons Inspectors that Iraq was supposed to destroy has ended up on the black market recently, nearly TEN YEARS after Saddam was supposed to have destroyed this shit. As for Kerry, there is public record that he's since contradicted in which he claimed to have committed war crimes and that the military hierarchy was aware of those actions and supported them. (Kerry is quoted on The Today Show in 1971 as saying he did, in fact, participate in war crimes) If he DID lie about his involvement in war crimes, it means that he lied before the Senate in the 1970s as well, spreading information that the North Vietnamese turned to their advantage. The North Vietnamese tried to coerce at least one POW into signing a confession that he committed war crimes using Kerry and his testimony as part of their interrogation tactics. Hell, a photo of Kerry is contained within the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum in Saigon, along with one of Jane Fonda.

IMHO, what Kerry did in battle 35 years ago isn't sticking in my craw nearly as much as what he did about 30 years ago by testifying in the Winter Soldier hearing. Kerry took the stand before Congress during a war and proclaimed that he and others not only committed war crimes on a regular basis, but that they did so with the full knowledge of the military hierarchy. QUITE a few people dispute that one and, I believe, Kerry has since claimed that he never committed any war crimes. If he has done so, then he purjured himself before Congress and helped destroy the image of the US military at a time when it couldn't afford it.

Karma's a bitch... Phillips was a low-class punk at Nebraska and a low-class punk in the NFL, so it doesn't surprise me to see him fall this far. I'm not feeling any sympathy for him, either, considering all the chances he's been given.

I figured that Angle would be a stretch this year and it turned out to be right... From the voting breakdown that Meltzer listed, Angle's entry is mainly due to huge support from current wrestlers and retired wrestlers. "Wrestling journalists", the last group, didn't support him nearly as heavily. I'd say that current wrestlers see Angle as pretty much the #3 guy in the WWE, although he was actually the #1 full-time performer until recently, as guys like Trips, Austin, Taker, and Rock have all been part-time since 2001 due to various reasons. He pretty much had four years as a full-time performer, three of those as a headliner / top-tier guy. Even as a part-timer over the last year, he's still been a top guy and put on good matches. As for older wrestlers, they see him as a great in-ring performer and the Olympic background probably gives most of them a woody, especially those who grew up in territories which had legit shooters like Karl Gotch as enforcers. Wrestling journalists probably look at Angle's lack of longevity and take into account the good chance that Angle's in-ring performances are hyped right now but will not stand up over time. Angle's a serious borderline case, especially where he is now in his career, but he could justify this if he can go another year without breaking his neck again. As for Trips, he got huge support from current wrestlers but MUCH less from retired wrestlers. There are no notes on "journalist" votes on him but I'd guess they probably fall into the same category as the retired wrestlers, some of whom said they withheld their votes because of his political nature, the fact that he's so protected, the fact that he's practically Vince's #2 guy, etc. I wouldn't vote on Trips considering 2002 and 2003, although this year has been somewhat tolerable once Benoit took the belt off of him. Actually *gasp* LOSING helped him considerably, because it made him interesting again.

Because they got drunk and thought it was 1997 again?