Letters to the Editor
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If McCain Runs...
...I believe the Dems should counter his campaign by running the exact SAME anti-McCain ads that the Bush campaign ran in the 2000 primaries.
I suppose a short voiceover track could add, "Here's what the President himself had to say about John McCain just a few years ago."
--Josh
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Warm and favorable?
Condi Rice?
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Link, please?
How about a link to the poll? "Top 5" and "Bottom 5" are meaningless terms unless we know 1) How many people were ranked, and 2) What their scores were.
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What are these "polls" supposed to show?
This is not a "poll." This is a popularity contest, or a name-recognition contest. By the same standard, you could say that because Adolf Hitler has higher name recognition than Elihu Root that he must have a higher rating. So-called polls like this are, I suspect, another reason that the Washington pundits have over the years given us such deep insights on the unelectability of Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Ronald Reagan in 1980, the "fact" that Ted Kennedy was a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination and the "fact" that Bill Clinton couldn't possibly be reelected in 1996.
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"National Thermometer"
The anal variety, I presume.
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Was Al Gore On The List?
Where did Gore rank?
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AAARRRRGGH!!!!
The presidential election is two years away!
Current Office Holders (McCain, Clinton, Obama, et al.): Stop campaigning and do the job you were elected into government to do! That is, govern!
Wannabe Office Holders: What do you do for living? Where to do get the money run a two-year campaign? How do you put food on the table? How do you pay the bills? Instead going on Lettermen to announce that you're maybe forming a committee to look at the possibility of exploring the likely support for a potential run for office, DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY!
Journalists: We don't even have officially declared candidates and we citizens are already subjected to idea-free, horserace reportage. Go outside, find a story, and report the news. Oh, and when it comes to Iran, remember the words of I.F. Stone, "Governments lie"!
Political Parties: Election's over. Find something else to do besides soliciting me for more money. Republicans, go enlist in the Marines. Democrats, offer something besides Republican-lite. Greens, stop making symbolic gestures. Get elected or get out. Socialists, wage some class warfare. Libertarians, smoke less dope. Maybe then you'll figure out that Keynes was right, Friedman was wrong, and that there never has been, and never will be such a thing as a "free" market.
Fellow Citizens: First of all, how sad is it that to be Politician is now something distinct from being a run-of-the-mill citizen. Some democracy! Let's say, "Screw the politicos!" Keep up on events, study the issues, do some good work, and think about running for office.
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Lieberman...
for President.
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What's Wrong with These People?
McCain and Rice among the top five?
America is doomed. We are a nation of uninformed morons. It is now official.
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one tribal elder too elderly...
In two years McCain will be -- what? -- 72 years old or something like that.
Funny, but the older I get the more I'd like to see a young, vigorous, alert man or woman in the Oval Office.
McCain's long past retirement age.
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Who's hot, who's not,
who cares...
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A link to the poll
I've just added one to the post.
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Standings
Since the scale went from 0 to 100 in the plus category I presume, Bush and gang must be deep in the minus column.
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September 11 didn't change everything
I can't understand the widespread admiration for Rudy Giuliani. Before the September 11 attacks, he was reviled because of his incredible lack of concern over police brutality. He doesn't seem to concerned over the latest NYPD shooting. The more things change, the more they stay the same.