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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:51:04 -0700, PJMalone wrote:
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No charges placed, no access to
council or even to family members, no trial, and no release date other than
"when the war against terror" is over? Whatever happened to the US
Constitution?

Doesn't apply; when you join the enemy, you forfeit that, don't you.

Right, and who makes the determination that someone has "joined the
enemy?" How is it that they don't have the right to even contest that?
Because to do so might make then eligible for due process, which would
be *really* inconvenient in terms of getting another notch on Ashcroft's
belt.

Kerry may well NOT be the best person for the job. But Bush is the worst
thing to happen to DC since the British burned it in the War of 1812. Kerry
could hardly worse.

I disagree profoundly with Kerry on several issues that are important to
me, so I'll be voting against him. Seeing how he lied about the Assault
Weapons Ban, equating them to machine guns (they're not) and saying that
lifting the ban on cosmetic features such as bayonet lugs and flash
surpressors makes Americans more at danger from Terrorists (what an absurd
thing to say, yet he said it)... He's another slicky-boy politician who
can't tell the truth about anything.

I agree that Kerry's opinion in this regard is totally brain-dead.
However it's also pretty run-of-the-mill and pretty broadly held
(granted, doesn't say much for the average IQ.) And since when have you
ever heard of a presidential candidate that wasn't a "slicky-boy
politician who can't tell the truth about anything." PLEASE don't say
that GW doesn't fit that description to a "T" as well.

I don't trust him any more than
I trusted Clinton, they're both cut from the same cloth. Then the guy
misses what, 70%? 80%? of his senate obligations, and he wants a
freaking promotion?

I don't think so.

I see, but it doesn't bother you that Bush had taken 250 days off as of
August 2003 (27% of his presidency spent on vacation) - compared to the
average American having 13 days off a year? And if you want to bring
Clinton into the mix, he took off a total of 152 days in the entirety of
his first two terms. The only close runner up to GW in days off is his
father, who took off 543 vacation days (speaking of being "cut from the
same cloth"). Please spare me the "working vacation" stuff - that's
easily on par with Clinton's "didn't inhale."

- Al