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...line to go on, has learned from other people's mistakes. He says he watched in growing dismay as the World Wide Web was put to what he views as precisely the wrong use: old-fashioned, top-down publishing. "I had a strong feeling early on that this ought to evolve into a communications medium," he says...
...saying anything a rational human being could possibly disagree with. In the debate, his answers are dominated by unobjectionable statements: I say tonight I'm for opportunity, responsibility and community.... We have to...balance this budget while we protect Medicare and Medicaid and education and the environment.... We ought to help protect our kids from drugs and guns and gangs and tobacco...
...ready," Sipple replied. "And the pictures of the two of you together are so good, you ought to keep it going...
Given incumbent Donald Payne's history of winning re-election races, challenger Williams has her work cut out for her. However, deviating from the standard Republican platform, Williams may draw some moderate votes for her pro-choice and affirmative-action support. Her other stands are more conventionally Republican: welfare ought to be reformed on "workfare" principles, the government should give vouchers to parents to use at whatever school they wish and a balanced-budget amendment should be passed...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Campaigns ought to be about ideas, not money...