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by John Cole|  October 13, 20043:26 pm| 2 Comments

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I am not going to watch the debates because the WVU Mountaineers take on the U. Conn Huskies at 7:30pm, and, well, a man has to have his priorities right.

The other day someone asked me if there was anything that would get me to vote for Kerry, and I responded with “A partial lobotomy.”

There is no point for me to listen to Kerry moan, whine, and lie or to listen to lopsided attacks from Schieffer about the actual state of economic affairs over the past four years. Plus, I hate domestic affairs debates. If campaigns were allowed to be blunt, the entire economic message From Bush/Cheney:

“We inherited a recession. We have fought two wars. Despite all that, the economy is rolling along at a pretty nice clip with low inflation, low unemployment, and low interest rates. The Democrats are damned liars.”

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    Ralph Gizzip

    October 13, 2004 at 7:51 pm

    Glad I read this post. Football = good. Listening to Bob Schiffer = bad.

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  1. Who Tends the Fires says:
    October 17, 2004 at 12:46 am

    Just making shit up as we go along, like REAL “NEWS”men do…

    The Word for the Day is: “PRESS-idential Selection”. “The other day someone asked me if there was anything that would get me to vote for Kerry, and I responded with ‘A partial lobotomy.'” – John Cole It’d have to be…

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