Is it just me, or do others viewing the Republican Convention get the impression that the nation’s only challenge is to be safe from Kerry? … I wonder how long it took girly-man Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger to get his driver’s license? … To hear terms like — strong, dead or alive, resolute, endless-winless war, freedom in Iraq — you can’t help but lock the image of 59,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial as a mock lesson that our leaders will never learn not to engage in war under false pretenses; let us hope that the 1000 on the future wall of the Iraq memorial will make them finally see the light. … Rather than pussy foot with the insurgents we should be rooting out those detestable kidnaping murderers. … Since Saddam was no overt threat, it should have been the responsibility of the UN to terminate Saddam's control of oil and his siphoning off billions in food for oil aid. … Does the entertainment world really have to stoop even lower by presenting “White Chicks”? … The fatniks are going to miss Julia Child’s recipes, like Thanksgiving was everyday, as they always overlooked her advice to eat well but in moderation. I predict the Republicans will move quickly toward an amendment to allow immigrants to run for the office of president, but on the condition that the spouse is also Republican. … On the other hand, is America ready for a candidate that dismisses concerns for lack of good paying jobs, escalating health costs, shortchanging veterans' benefits, and unilateral outsourcing as girly-man economics? ...
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