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Sensing’s Challenge

by John Cole|  August 25, 20049:10 am| 3 Comments

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Donald Sensing has a challenge up:

Hence my challenge: If you support Kerry for president, I invite you to write a guest post for this blog explaining why. Here’s why it’s a challenge:

To be published, you must explain why Kerry is to be preferred in terms that do not simply say he’s not Bush. This is not an invitation to rage about Bush; it is an invitation to be positive about Kerry.

– It will be insufficient merely to declare that Bush is wrong on Iraq, taxes, education, etc. You must explain why and how Kerry is right.

– You must cite and provide links to Kerry’s speeches or campaign releases to back up your claims. These cites can reach all the way back to when Kerry declared his candidacy for the 2004 race.

– Citing the Dermocratic platform will be unpersuasive, since neither party pays a lot of attention to its own platform once the election is over, even if they win.

– Length limit is 1,500 words. That’s a long post, by the way.

– I will not rebuild your html code, so when you email your entry to me, you MUST email it in plaintext format (not an html email) with html coding revealed intact. Do not email me asking how to do that. You may write the essay as a *.txt document and send it as an attachment if you wish, but I won’t take responsibility if my security software alerts and sets phasers to kill.

– Your subject line must read OHC KERRY CHALLENGE ENTRY. I get pretty well buried in email every day, and unless it’s obvious your entry is there, I may well miss it and even delete it.

– I do not have time to be your editor. If you can’t spell or use good grammar and syntax, I won’t help you. Your essay must be publishable in style and readability!

– I am not promising to publish anyone’s essay. I will publish no more than one essay. I will not fisk any essay that I do publish, I will present it unedited and unabridged with your byline. You MUST include your real name; I will delete pseudonymous essays without reading them.

– I reserve the right to publish (maybe with attribution, maybe not) excerpts of any essay submitted.

– No – “means no” – profanity. Using the first and last letters of a cuss word with *** in the middle counts as profanity. When quoting someone else, delete profanity used in the quote.

ABSOLUTE DEADLINE is Saturday, Aug. 28 at 7 a.m. CDT

Have at it, libs.

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  1. 1.

    CadillaqJaq

    August 25, 2004 at 10:25 am

    Good luck, John

    Micheal Reagan, Rush Limbaugh and a couple of other radio talk show hosts have attempted this with their respective liberal callers… it ultimately turns into a Bush bashing.

    They just can’t help it. Weenies.

  2. 2.

    Gary Farber

    August 28, 2004 at 9:52 pm

    “ABSOLUTE DEADLINE is Saturday, Aug. 28 at 7 a.m. CDT”

    This might have been fun if I’d not just read it just now at 8:49 MTN on the 28th.

    Lots of warning; whatever. Not being a coward about this sort of thing, nor given to obsessive attention to blogs that don’t link to me, well, I might enjoy responding. After a decent warning that isn’t, you know, after the deadline. If those are the terms, it’s clear DS wins. Who could deny such convincing arguments such as that say “reply before you see the challenge”?

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    September 14, 2004 at 9:57 am

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