Happy 100 th birthday, you old wasp.
Catch one of my replies re how GW just stood back and let Kerry Ratherize America for 2/3's of the debate so we could have all of his Rathers on tape and for showing the truth.
Free Republic is infected with doomers and gloomers claiming to be conservatives. Conservatives are not doomers and gloomers. Gold bugs, Perorats and those who hate America are the gloomers and doomers. They look for the negative of anything, and if nothing negative happens they Rather about it.
By the way apparently Kerry got a wink form his butt boy liberal moderator last night after the debate. There is no doubt that Kerry had seen the questions before the debate.
What they don't understand is... NOBODY WINS DEBATES!!! The only reason for these media events is to make it possible for somebody to blow it somewhere in the process!!! Nobody really "blew it" last night, so in the end it was a draw and that's GOOD!!! What win elections is NOT debates, but how comfortable the people are with either candidate by the time they vote!!!
That's why the markets are such a good indicator as investors, both big and small, are a grand meter of people's comfort levels with an expectation of future comfort levels with one, or the other. They don't want someone that's "going to change the world," because they hate change and consider it a discomfort anyway they look at it!!!
Human nature is very predictable! History proves this repeatedly!!! I know you know all this, however, as you are MUCH older than I am, Mr. Methusalah! (smirk!)
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