"Dennis Miller and Chuck Norris"

Note: I originally wrote this while listening to the second presidential debate between Bush and Kerry with the intention of coming back to add to it later. However I didn't have the time and currently have no internet access so I am posting this as is.

I realized I should explain the title of the last entry: I am constantly looking at a clock and/or timer at various points in my day. Takes an hour and 10 minutes to get to work every day, 50 minutes to get home and I take two 15 minute breaks that absolutely must be 15 minutes long. You might say my life has become a rather predictable routine.

You might say the predictability of my day currently allows me to form a plan. Yes, I have a very formulaic plan. My plan is the most import part of my day. And it is because of this plan I successfully arrive on time and take my breaks and lunches on time. Because of the plan.

Ahah! Perfect transition. I am currently listening to the presidential debate. Mr. Kerry is using the term plan an awful lot. It's a little annoying.

Today's title, on the other hand, is also referring to the debate. The long-lasting pet-peave of NEVER using the term "socialism". What's wrong with the term? Why is it so taboo?!? Bush actually came quite close. He pointed out Kery's plan for "cheaper" health care is in fact a plan for SOCIALIZED medicine. JUST SAY IT: SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. Jesus tap-dancing Christ! Why can't anyone say this?

What's more comedic is Kerry's denial of such a concept. Bush says "this is a plan for the federal government to completely take over and run the medical system" (a.k.a. "socialized medicine") to which Kerry says "no, you can keep your current system if you want it". Hah! What a sack of shit! You want socialized medicine, you've been proposing socialized medicine for the ENTIRE campaign without having the GUTS to refer to it as "socialism". So just quit the bullshit. You want socialized medicine and that's all there is to it. DO NOT insult my intelligence by saying there's going to be a choice: there will NOT be choice.

And for the love of GOD stop saying the word "lables". What the fuck does that mean?

See? Kerry wants to pass some tax hikes "on the top 1%" but not on the "working class" and yet at the same time "roll back the Bush tax cuts". Yeah, lemme 'splain: "rolling back" a tax cut is another way of saying "raising taxes" and since Kerry already said he would leave the tax cuts for the "working class making less than $200,000 a year" I can only assume he is indirectly admitting the Bush tax cuts were not in fact "only" for the absolute wealthy. And from that I can only assume that Kerry *IS* in fact proposing a tax hike on EVERYBODY who pays taxes. See, this is Kerry's plan in fact and Kerry is, in fact, a sack of shit.

I think I've figured out why Kerry seems to have such incomprehensible views on issues like Iraq: he's trying to speak in sound bites. He's trying to speak in past, present and future tense at the same time while appealing to any number of demographics at once. Demographics who will only get their news from the radio as they drive to and home from work every day. And also the focus groups: diode suction cups are hooked up to the heads of the focus groups while a number of words and phrases are read to them. When the right combination for a particular response is reached those words are written down and integrated into speeches and debate question responses. Since Kerry is trying to speak in sound bites often times the sentences end coming off not making any sense. But for selective radio and TV stations for the audience in question they make the right sense to the right demographic. Why can't a radio or TV personality say something like that?



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