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Wow, with an argument like "case closed" nobody can argue with you. Another sure fire all purpose winner is "enough said." Here's what happening in actual reality: "the [North Korean] government yesterday announced it had suspended the dismantling of its nuclear program. The Foreign...

Ahh the "no TRUE Scotsman" defense. "Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again." Hamish is shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such a thing." The next day he sits down to...

1999 was when international sanctions were suspended. And the subsequent negotiations were championed by the French. Iraq has been a catastrophe -- 23 US dead last month in the ongoing quagvictory. Somewhere between one to three trillion in costs. "General Petraeus, the outgoing commander...

A poll is a thermometer. Again, your faith in the markets is no substitute for sound statistical theory. There's no question that polls can be shoddy and done wrong. However, there is science behind them. The argument you have behind intrade is that it's right because the market is...

It's hard to argue with someone who has such a tenuous grip on reality. When Bush announced in 2002 that Libya was in the "axis of evil" it had already been in discussions with French negotiators for years. In fact, international sanctions had been suspended indefinitely in 1999 "after two...

What about the anthrax attacks? Here are just a few more: "July 4, 2002, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian national who lived in Los Angeles, opened fire on the El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two and wounding four others." "Ten people in the...

So when you go outside, rather than reading the temperature, you subscribe to some sort of temperature market to tell you what the temperature is? You know, because the market is more accurate than a thermometer.

What did you think of his website?

Again, I appreciate that you like Intrade, but it's not reflective of actual polls. I'm not even sure of the significance of it at all.

In addition to the subsidy that Alaskan taxpayers receive from the rest of the states.

I agree with you -- he's trying to appeal to the Christian base of the Republicans, and that is not a healthy direction for the country.

I hear you, although the most recent Newsweek poll puts them tied. Undoubtedly McCain received a small post convention bump.

Obama is trying for talking points, but my point remains that the Democrats in general need to repeat the same phrases over and over as the Republicans do. If you watch the Daily Show they show clips of Republicans repeating the exact same phrase, the exact same wording like little machines...

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Then a competent nominee could say "There have been multiple definitions of this, which do you mean?" On the other hand, it's tough to say that when Ari Fleischer helped define the term and it's been used repeatedly by the White House.

Actually Charles Krauthammer "made it up" and he's a conservative commentator. Additionally the term has been used repeatedly by the White House during its press briefings. Fleischer was even asked in detail to delineate the Bush doctrine. So if this term was "made up" it kind of makes a...

Well if you're trying to say that the Democrats need to have daily talking points and repeat them ad nauseam like the robotic Republicans do, I agree. Actually that's one of Obama's points that he keeps making. So it is getting through.

In fairness to Palin, she also doesn't have a clue about many other things, from the Pledge of Allegiance, to foreign affairs.

Don't count your chickens, he may still win and continue the successes of the past eight years. Okay... Well McCain's got a pretty good tactic right now -- the Republicans (as always) game the press by constantly attacking them, and he runs constant attack ads. If Obama responds, McCain...

It is consistent with the illegal vote "caging" that the Republicans were caught doing (caught with their own emails.) The goal is just to make voting a hassle for those voting against them.