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...good for bonds--stocks because of the dividend-tax issue and bonds for a couple reasons. One is that Clinton's policies produced budget surpluses and Kerry sees things much the same way. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney is saying that deficits don't matter. Then you have the gridlock argument. The bond market would assume Kerry's spending initiatives would get frustrated. So you lower the deficit that way. And Bush does talk about Social Security reform. Under typical proposals, that would add about a hundred million dollars a year to the deficit for the next 10 years...
since the end of the cold war. And yet, when Kerry spoke to the VFW two days later, he attacked Bush's position, using an argument with some merit but of microscopic import in the midst of a presidential campaign: he said it was a "hasty" and "political" plan and certainly not a good negotiating tactic to withdraw troops from Korea while we are trying to get the North Koreans to drop their nuclear program...
...that the Olympic Games are not a contest between nations, that the Olympic spirit dwells in the hearts of countless athletes who dedicate themselves to their sports and dream of nothing more than doing the very best they can on the world's greatest stage. But traditionalists lost that argument decades ago. Every four years, readers and viewers turn to the daily medal tables to see how each nation has done. And as the Athens games got under way, the tables told how the world has changed. In the first week of competition, South Korea had won more medals than...
...Fahrenheit 9/11 Critics are willing to apply a stricter standard to Michael Moore's presentation of his opinions than they do to Bush's argument for his [July 19]. That's exactly the reason Moore's movie is necessary. Those who desired a serious debate in the lead-up to the Iraq war waited in frustration for serious journalists to ask hard questions and apply critical scrutiny to the Administration's case. Moore's questions are the ones that should have been debated before we went into Iraq. Why should Moore's movie receive closer scrutiny than the Administration...
When George W. Bush announced a major recall of around 70,000 U.S. troops from Europe and Asia, he kicked off an argument in the U.S. - but the reaction in Europe was muted. Challenger John Kerry said the plan shortchanges U.S. allies and the war on terrorism: "This is clearly the wrong signal to send at the wrong time," he said in a speech to veterans. But in Germany, where the cuts will hurt the most, they were portrayed as an overdue change in mission that will mostly be felt in the small towns where the soldiers are based...