Two K&B debates later (and one E&C debate), I am still unmoved either way. I don't like K, but I especially don't like B. K is correct, B really does own a timber company.* K&E for tort reform in the healthcare industry? Hmm. B speaking out of turn and interrupting the moderator, fancy that. B shouting for most of the debate doesnt become him. K said "ideer" instead of "idea" - is it a ploy to relate better to the average schmuck? K stutters just like the best of B. K looks like Frankenstein, but B looks like a hamster. E is a sexy bitch and should be on advertisements for men's underwear. Cheney reminds me of the Tootsie roll tootsie pop owl. He is a wise old hooter. Ah one ah two ah three, and bite.
*Kerry startled Bush by saying that the president is counted as a small business for tax purposes because he once earned $84 from a timber company he owns.
"I own a timber company?" Bush asked. "That's news to me." Then he paused and added, "Need some wood?"
That baffling exchange arises from an analysis by the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org debunking Bush's claims that Kerry's plans to raise taxes on the richest Americans would increase the tax burden on 900,000 small businesses.
The analysis found that the Bush campaign is counting every rich person who has even $1 of outside business income as a small business owner, even if they have no employees.
The analysis said even Bush qualifies under that definition because he reported $84 in income from his part-ownership of a timber enterprise on his 2001 federal tax return.
-Associated Press
*Kerry startled Bush by saying that the president is counted as a small business for tax purposes because he once earned $84 from a timber company he owns.
"I own a timber company?" Bush asked. "That's news to me." Then he paused and added, "Need some wood?"
That baffling exchange arises from an analysis by the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org debunking Bush's claims that Kerry's plans to raise taxes on the richest Americans would increase the tax burden on 900,000 small businesses.
The analysis found that the Bush campaign is counting every rich person who has even $1 of outside business income as a small business owner, even if they have no employees.
The analysis said even Bush qualifies under that definition because he reported $84 in income from his part-ownership of a timber enterprise on his 2001 federal tax return.
-Associated Press
venice:
I don't know why I've even bothered watching the debates, I know they're not going to influence me really, and generally they just make me angry. I dislike K, as a person he kind of gives me the creeps, and I feel like he's lying to me. One the other hand, I know B is lying to me. I guess, although I don't like to be, I'm in the "anyone but B" camp, and I'm kind of stuck. The whole thing just makes me want to move far far away.
suicidal_george:
On one hand I want bush to win, because america is like a crackhead. We need to hit rock botttom and have everything fall to shit before we realize there's a problem. But on the other hand that's a whole lot of suffering and death that's going to come down on the underdogs of the world. So I guess that I'm anybody but Bush. The fucker is evil, corrupt and probably brain damaged from coke, alcohol, and nutrasweet. Kerry won't be much better. He's skull & bones too and has a greater loyalty to his little secrcet sorority than to the constitution. It's not like he's going to expose the fake war (on terror and on Iraq) or the massive corruption. The only thing that's going to change is to whom the checks get written out.