Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <The Dems did run someone infinitely smarter.> Well, no. I'm quite sure that neither of the Presidential candidates the Democrats ran against President Bush had a better college GPA or SAT scores. <2004 wasn't a contest about who had the smarter candidate. One candidate was willing to tell more lies. He won.> Nonsense.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Well, no. I'm quite sure that neither of the Presidential candidates the Democrats ran against President Bush had a better college GPA or SAT scores. <2004 wasn't a contest about who had the smarter candidate. One candidate was willing to tell more lies. He won.> Nonsense." Stow it, no one cares. Truly.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Well, no. I'm quite sure that neither of the Presidential candidates the Democrats ran against President Bush had a better college GPA or SAT scores. << Don't be so sure. <a href="http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html" target="_blank">http://www.insidepolitics.org/ heard/heard32300.html</a>
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Stow it, no one cares. Truly.> If you're not interested in the truth, why do you even bother to post here? If you just want to post incorrect information, you should just start a blog.
Originally Posted By DAR Honestly we're still bitching about past elections. We need to get over it. It still angers me when I see people with Bush/Cheney or Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers. Actually I have a low opinion of anyone who uses bumper stickers to push forth their political views. It puts them in the sheep category.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <If you're not interested in the truth, why do you even bother to post here? If you just want to post incorrect information, you should just start a blog.> Actually, you did when you said "I'm quite sure that neither of the Presidential candidates the Democrats ran against President Bush had a better college GPA or SAT scores. " 2oony's link shows that Gore did in fact have better scores. Care to admit you didn't have "the Truth" in this case, and in fact posted something untrue?
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Care to admit you didn't have "the Truth" in this case, and in fact posted something untrue?> I'll admit that Mr Gore had a better SAT score. The rest of my statement still stands. SPP's statements are still erroneous.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Not only a better SAT score, but better GPA also, based on what's in that link. Now that's an incomplete transcript to be sure, but you seemed awfully sure of yourself to say that neither Gore nor Kerry did better than Bush on GPA. Can you show that? If not, you shouldn't say it. You're already wrong on the SAT score. Your "truth" is looking pretty threadbare. The rest of your statement that apparently still stands is "nonsense," in response to SPP.
Originally Posted By Mr X **With as bad as President Bush did in college, you'd think the Democrats could have nominated someone smarter than him, wouldn't you? But they couldn't. It's kind of strange.** Do you really believe that Doug, or are you just being sarcastic? I'm sorry, but if you really think that George Bush is "smarter" in any way, shape or form than Al Gore...well, I'd have to say you're the dumb one then. Obviously, getting elected involved more than intelligence...but MY point is, seriously, how scary is it that our own leader has no opinion or information about the near future of his own nations economic outlook? Don't you find that disturbing, Doug? Or would you rather just throw in some stupid quips about how Democrats suck?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "If you're not interested in the truth, why do you even bother to post here? If you just want to post incorrect information, you should just start a blog." Other people have beaten me to it, so I won't embarrass you any further and show you're wrong. One thing strikes me. As I read your "response", all I could hear was some radio show host with his voice getting higher and higher yelling "It's the truth! It's the truth! That's nonsense!"
Originally Posted By Mr X Doesn't anyone ELSE find that disturbing? Wouldn't you rather have a leader that dares offer an opinion, an outlook, a "forward looking statement" of some sort? Anything would have been better than "don't ask me, I'm a moron". Even "well, we can't be certain about what economic factors will come into play here, nobody can predict the future, but considering all the information at my disposal my outlook would be xyz..." You know, like a person who actually knows what they're talking about.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <One candidate was willing to tell more lies. He won.< the key word in this statement is 'more' as this was an awful choice to the people
Originally Posted By Mr X Well, "the people" are also in charge of deciding which parties to support (hey, how bout more than two...what a concept!?)...and which polititians should receive their parties' nomination. So, to say the people had an awful choice may be correct, but it was the people themselves that made it so.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 agreed - I would love to see a viable 3rd party candidate - and not a retread .
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "the key word in this statement is 'more' as this was an awful choice to the people" Bingo.
Originally Posted By jonvn And a ton of money was spent and a several year long process got us there. Not really a very good system.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Not only a better SAT score, but better GPA also, based on what's in that link. Now that's an incomplete transcript to be sure, but you seemed awfully sure of yourself to say that neither Gore nor Kerry did better than Bush on GPA. Can you show that?> The information is out there. You can look it up.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Do you really believe that Doug, or are you just being sarcastic?> I really believe that. <I'm sorry, but if you really think that George Bush is "smarter" in any way, shape or form than Al Gore...well, I'd have to say you're the dumb one then.> Well, I'd have to say I don't really care what your opinion of me is. <Obviously, getting elected involved more than intelligence...but MY point is, seriously, how scary is it that our own leader has no opinion or information about the near future of his own nations economic outlook?> What is scary is that you think "our own leader has no opinion or information about the near future of his own nations economic outlook" based on his answer to one question.
