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...Ahmann was stuck now defending an imperfect machine, whose potential problems suddenly took center stage. After a few direct questions from Judge Sauls, Ahmann even acknowledged a particularly damning flaw: That a small light could show through on a ballot and the machine might not register a vote...
...impress me, I assure you. It's simply that he loves traveling in academic territory. If his tendency to sometimes talk like a monograph comes off as bullying, it's a flaw of style. Live with it. When he is President, we will all smile it off as a treasurable quirk...
...what they got. The New York Post trumpets "LIAR LIAR" on its front page - and the post-debate spin cycle becomes about Gore's perceived chronic character flaw. And so it has gone every week since the debates. The image is enshrined...
...male to Prozac-ed debater - like an over-the-hill teen pop star searching for a comeback image - the Bush team decided on its plan. It would take all of Gore's perceived weaknesses and find a way to define them as all being part of the same character flaw. And the kicker would be that it was the same defect that the public had detected in Clinton...
...second flaw is that neither plan does enough to combat the use of tax loopholes by wealthy individuals and corporations to escape their tax burden. A report recently released by CTJ and the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy noted that top U.S. corporations have used loopholes to steadily reduce their tax obligations over the last decade. For example, Texaco earned $3.4 billion in profits from 1996 to 1998, but instead of paying taxes it received money from the federal government to the tune of $304 million. If the loopholes were closed, this money could be returned to individuals...