No one, and I mean no one, is sure *who* is going to win. Or, if they are, they just have a 50-50 chance of being right. Even the futures market which I bloged about has been going from 49.5 to 50.5 percent.
There was also a time he said "idear" instead of "idea." Yeah, the rocking was kind of annoying, but it's good he finished the speech early, so that it would get the coverage it needs. It was powerful yesterday when Edwards said "You cannot run, you cannot hide. We will find you, and we will destroy you." Talk about unexpected, but it will likely come out as showing his strength.
BTW, providing incentives isn't really the same thing as corporate welfare.
I like how he tied one of the commandments, "Honor your mother and your father," with keeping social security secure. I think both he and Edwards brought the Dems to the left again; except for some fiscally conservative issues which are just plain smart. Clinton showed that Dems too can learn the lessons of economics; and Bush has proved that supply-siders still exist on the Reps side, even though there are very, very few supply-siders remaining in the field of ecnomics (reason: it's flawed; it was even refered to once by Bush Sr. as "voodoo economics").
So, basically, as a former Green who knows economics, the ticket is basically right where I'd like it to be. I don't feel the compromise I did with Gore (where I voted for Nader in MA instead), and I don't feel the compromise I did with Deal (when I donated to him only because he was in the lead and I already determined not to waste my vote).
As per your other comment before: IRV and proportional representation are tied. The point Nader was probably making was that, under a system of just IRV, the result isn't too different than with pluralty voting: the winners are in the center and only throw bones (some with bits of meat on them, even) to the extreme bases.
PS: good to see Kucinich come to his senses. I think now that that was his plan the whole time. To be a beacon of hope for the far-left democrats, never giving up for them (and, if you saw the roll call, all of the votes only went to Kerry or Kucinich, though Kucinich would only pick up single digit delegates for only a single-digit number of states), and then finally uniting them with Kerry.
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Date: 2004-07-30 07:28 am (UTC)There was also a time he said "idear" instead of "idea." Yeah, the rocking was kind of annoying, but it's good he finished the speech early, so that it would get the coverage it needs. It was powerful yesterday when Edwards said "You cannot run, you cannot hide. We will find you, and we will destroy you." Talk about unexpected, but it will likely come out as showing his strength.
BTW, providing incentives isn't really the same thing as corporate welfare.
I like how he tied one of the commandments, "Honor your mother and your father," with keeping social security secure. I think both he and Edwards brought the Dems to the left again; except for some fiscally conservative issues which are just plain smart. Clinton showed that Dems too can learn the lessons of economics; and Bush has proved that supply-siders still exist on the Reps side, even though there are very, very few supply-siders remaining in the field of ecnomics (reason: it's flawed; it was even refered to once by Bush Sr. as "voodoo economics").
So, basically, as a former Green who knows economics, the ticket is basically right where I'd like it to be. I don't feel the compromise I did with Gore (where I voted for Nader in MA instead), and I don't feel the compromise I did with Deal (when I donated to him only because he was in the lead and I already determined not to waste my vote).
As per your other comment before: IRV and proportional representation are tied. The point Nader was probably making was that, under a system of just IRV, the result isn't too different than with pluralty voting: the winners are in the center and only throw bones (some with bits of meat on them, even) to the extreme bases.
PS: good to see Kucinich come to his senses. I think now that that was his plan the whole time. To be a beacon of hope for the far-left democrats, never giving up for them (and, if you saw the roll call, all of the votes only went to Kerry or Kucinich, though Kucinich would only pick up single digit delegates for only a single-digit number of states), and then finally uniting them with Kerry.