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Originally posted by Buff@Oct 9 2004, 02:10 PM
You missed the point. I understand that above and beyond being opposed to getting taxed in the first place, most people are opposed to specific spending that their tax dollars are going toward.
My point was that in the very same sentence that Kerry said it would be wrong for him to impose the values of some people on other people, he said he was going to impose the values of some people on other people.
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It seemed to me - and I freely acknowledge it's hard for me to be objective about it because of the strength of my feelings* - that Bush was appealing more to his base on the religious right, while Kerry was speaking more to the nation as a whole.
You are right about that.
Of course, I noticed it more when Bush was talking about not appointing Supreme Court justices that will do this or that "because of their own personal beliefs instead of the law." Of course, what one believes the law to be is a matter of personal belief, but hey ...
* That's why I have to ask my girlfriend who SHE thought did better in the debates ... she's far less biased toward either side than I am.