As the US economy slows, the Canadian dollar rises hence its more expensive for americans to spend funds in Canada so overall unless you own a NHL team then you are feeling the negative effects.
As for small buisness I honestly wouldn't know, spent most of my adualt life in the army and don't know none the wiser.
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John Kerry
The one thing that I find odd about these elections is the time it takes, now I can understand that in the past every one had to trapes all over America and this took time, and in days gone bye that was not a major problem. These days the President spends nearly 18 months tied up in dealing with getting reelected rather than looking after America, this is almost half his official term of office, does this mean that America is better of when there is no one in charge or not. Any comments from the other side of the pond.
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Wholley
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I don't think Bush has spent much time stumping.
He really has been rather quiet compared to Clinton who spent his entire first term ensuring he would get a second.
To answer your question by comparison,it's a case of scale and money.
GB.65,000,000 people and you could lose the whole British Ilse's in a medium size state in the US.
US.285,000.000 people(thats just the ones we know about)so it stands to reason that it takes a little longer to get your message out.Money is a much bigger deal here than across the pond and if you want some rich guys money or a unions money for that matter you have to get out and "press the flesh",have your picture taken with the donor and kiss his baby.You also have to understand that an incumbent president has a great advantage over his opposition,Air Force One,aka"The flying White House"anything he needs to do he can do from the air.I'd harp on about presidential terms being too short,but thats just a personal opinion
Wholley.
He really has been rather quiet compared to Clinton who spent his entire first term ensuring he would get a second.
To answer your question by comparison,it's a case of scale and money.
GB.65,000,000 people and you could lose the whole British Ilse's in a medium size state in the US.
US.285,000.000 people(thats just the ones we know about)so it stands to reason that it takes a little longer to get your message out.Money is a much bigger deal here than across the pond and if you want some rich guys money or a unions money for that matter you have to get out and "press the flesh",have your picture taken with the donor and kiss his baby.You also have to understand that an incumbent president has a great advantage over his opposition,Air Force One,aka"The flying White House"anything he needs to do he can do from the air.I'd harp on about presidential terms being too short,but thats just a personal opinion
Wholley.
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Frank S.
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Bush hasn't yet been campaigning in the way the Dems have, it's true. Although a token appearance here and there, at the car race (Indy 500) or a factory there, served to show him as a man of the people (cough).
But he has been lobbying very hard. Lobbying people who don't want their picture on TV. How else did he amass a campaign chest of over $104 million? Kerry's is $3 million currently.
Private dinners, fund raisers, retreats with power players have brought in huge, HUGE, amounts to his campaign. But it's just below the media's radar and therefore the voters' radar.
He's already well bought and paid for. The same people are probably going to donate to Kerry's campaign to hedge their bets. If that doesn't happen, however, this will mean one thing: they already know the election's result.
That in itself ought to raise interesting questions.
But he has been lobbying very hard. Lobbying people who don't want their picture on TV. How else did he amass a campaign chest of over $104 million? Kerry's is $3 million currently.
Private dinners, fund raisers, retreats with power players have brought in huge, HUGE, amounts to his campaign. But it's just below the media's radar and therefore the voters' radar.
He's already well bought and paid for. The same people are probably going to donate to Kerry's campaign to hedge their bets. If that doesn't happen, however, this will mean one thing: they already know the election's result.
That in itself ought to raise interesting questions.
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Wholley
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Kerry bought that on himself by supporting McCain-Feingold.
He thought it would keep speicial interest groups quiet.If'n he can't raise the money,then he should bugger off back to Mass.where he can continue to be the bleeding heart liberal that he really is.
As an alternative he could get his foreign born wife to sell more baked beans,that should fill his coffers.
Wholley.
He thought it would keep speicial interest groups quiet.If'n he can't raise the money,then he should bugger off back to Mass.where he can continue to be the bleeding heart liberal that he really is.
As an alternative he could get his foreign born wife to sell more baked beans,that should fill his coffers.
Wholley.
From a very naive perspective over here it seems that the choice is between gun-toting, draft-dodging Bush and Kerry who actually went over to Vietnam and along with many thousands of his countrymen seemed to avail himself well in the whole sorry business. Erm....policies apart, who seems the more attractive proposition 
Per Flank, Per Tank
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Wholley
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Sully.
To keep a long story short,
Bush.
Served in the Air National Guard.
Supports the military.
Supports more tax cuts.
Kerry.
On returning from Vietnam,stabbed his fellow servicemen in the back by claiming most of them were insane,bloodthirsty murderers and promptly jumped into bed with Jane Fonda(figure of speech).
Want's to cut back the military.
Want's to raise taxes.
Has the most liberal voting record in the Senate,when he bothers to show up.
Speaks French.
Who would you vote for?
Wholley.
To keep a long story short,
Bush.
Served in the Air National Guard.
Supports the military.
Supports more tax cuts.
Kerry.
On returning from Vietnam,stabbed his fellow servicemen in the back by claiming most of them were insane,bloodthirsty murderers and promptly jumped into bed with Jane Fonda(figure of speech).
Want's to cut back the military.
Want's to raise taxes.
Has the most liberal voting record in the Senate,when he bothers to show up.
Speaks French.
Who would you vote for?
Wholley.
Wholley,
Air National Guard - sounds tasty. Don't you need to be either (1) clever and reasonably competent or (2) have a dad who can pull all sorts of strings? It's easy to commit soldiers to lost causes if you don't know what it's really like. Whatever Kerry's views were/are, I'd be more inclined to listen to him that some rich kid dreamer who spent his draft dunkin' donuts and eyeing up the totty left over from the real heroes. Isn't there a story about Bush scurrying for cover in Air Force 1 when 9/11 happened? Big man.
Not sure what speaking French has to do with it my friend. Some of them are alright
Apart from that I haven't any strong views.
Air National Guard - sounds tasty. Don't you need to be either (1) clever and reasonably competent or (2) have a dad who can pull all sorts of strings? It's easy to commit soldiers to lost causes if you don't know what it's really like. Whatever Kerry's views were/are, I'd be more inclined to listen to him that some rich kid dreamer who spent his draft dunkin' donuts and eyeing up the totty left over from the real heroes. Isn't there a story about Bush scurrying for cover in Air Force 1 when 9/11 happened? Big man.
Not sure what speaking French has to do with it my friend. Some of them are alright
Apart from that I haven't any strong views.
Per Flank, Per Tank
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Frank S.
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The French are enemies of the United States. Not enemy combatants,
but opponents nonetheless, verging on 'enemy' status.
That's what I keep hearing, anyway.
As to the National Guard, well, even though some died during the Vietnam war, chances for overseas deployment were next to nil, which made a National Guard posting just about as safe as a crossing into Canada. Of course, things have changed and the media enjoys showing pictures of Humvees patrolling Iraq with slogans like "one weekend a month my a$$!".
There's much to argue about the notion that Bush supports the military, but that's already been discussed. Politicians view the military either as a liability or as a prop. From the looks of it, I think Iraq is the test-bed for a (not-so-new) way of conducting warfare, with private firms (KBR, Steele and DynCorp) replacing more conventional military units.
This may help in downsizing the military, though it raises many questions.
The problem with Kerry's views is that they either change based on poll results, or are purposely vague, which tends to indicate he does not have a grasp of what to do about the war in Iraq and the larger campaign against terrorism, which is dangerous.
He speaks of reparing relations with 'allies', yet criticizes them, pandering to negative public opinion. All without laying out a clear vision.
That's another thing he has in common with Bush, he wings it along as he goes.
As to taxes, sooner or later, they will have to be raised. The government spends way more and takes in way less. Even Greenspan is starting to mumble about it, a reversal of his more recent comments. I suspect he's been getting a few more gray hairs over the latest GAO (General Accounting Office) report.
but opponents nonetheless, verging on 'enemy' status.
That's what I keep hearing, anyway.
As to the National Guard, well, even though some died during the Vietnam war, chances for overseas deployment were next to nil, which made a National Guard posting just about as safe as a crossing into Canada. Of course, things have changed and the media enjoys showing pictures of Humvees patrolling Iraq with slogans like "one weekend a month my a$$!".
There's much to argue about the notion that Bush supports the military, but that's already been discussed. Politicians view the military either as a liability or as a prop. From the looks of it, I think Iraq is the test-bed for a (not-so-new) way of conducting warfare, with private firms (KBR, Steele and DynCorp) replacing more conventional military units.
This may help in downsizing the military, though it raises many questions.
The problem with Kerry's views is that they either change based on poll results, or are purposely vague, which tends to indicate he does not have a grasp of what to do about the war in Iraq and the larger campaign against terrorism, which is dangerous.
He speaks of reparing relations with 'allies', yet criticizes them, pandering to negative public opinion. All without laying out a clear vision.
That's another thing he has in common with Bush, he wings it along as he goes.
As to taxes, sooner or later, they will have to be raised. The government spends way more and takes in way less. Even Greenspan is starting to mumble about it, a reversal of his more recent comments. I suspect he's been getting a few more gray hairs over the latest GAO (General Accounting Office) report.
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Frank S.
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This is what Kerry had to say about candidates' military service:
"We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.
But while those who served are owed special recognition, that recognition should not come at the expense of others; nor does it require that others be victimized or criticized or said to have settled for a lesser standard."
But wait, he said that in 1992, when Clinton was running against Bush sr.
What's good for the goose...
Now we have Bush jr. and Kerry, which is the wrong lizard?
(I think they're both wrong, but hey..!)
"We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.
But while those who served are owed special recognition, that recognition should not come at the expense of others; nor does it require that others be victimized or criticized or said to have settled for a lesser standard."
But wait, he said that in 1992, when Clinton was running against Bush sr.
What's good for the goose...
Now we have Bush jr. and Kerry, which is the wrong lizard?
(I think they're both wrong, but hey..!)
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Wholley
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Kerry has been quoted many times as the only Senator who in his many years of service to the country has never accepted soft donations.
He strongly supported McCain-Feingold along with his fellow elitist Kennedy.
Well.Here's where he's going to get caught.The Soldier Citizen Fund.Although called a fund it really is a PAC formed by Kerry to raise soft money,which he claims to be against.His rationale for this is that his PAC does not accept money from corporate PAC's instead it takes money directly from the corporations themselvesSo in effect he is just cutting out the middleman and accepting cash from the"powerful interests"he claims to despise.Before the Soldier Citizen Fund was shut down by McCain-Feingold Kerry's coffers were increased by $1.4 million.
He also accepted donations of over $50.000 from at least three Miami law firms each.His claim to accepting only private donations is palpable nonsense.
Of course this will not be reported in the liberal press here,or by the BBC
over the pond I would imagine.
Wholley.
He strongly supported McCain-Feingold along with his fellow elitist Kennedy.
Well.Here's where he's going to get caught.The Soldier Citizen Fund.Although called a fund it really is a PAC formed by Kerry to raise soft money,which he claims to be against.His rationale for this is that his PAC does not accept money from corporate PAC's instead it takes money directly from the corporations themselvesSo in effect he is just cutting out the middleman and accepting cash from the"powerful interests"he claims to despise.Before the Soldier Citizen Fund was shut down by McCain-Feingold Kerry's coffers were increased by $1.4 million.
He also accepted donations of over $50.000 from at least three Miami law firms each.His claim to accepting only private donations is palpable nonsense.
Of course this will not be reported in the liberal press here,or by the BBC
over the pond I would imagine.
Wholley.
I wish I was president. I'd deregulate like a Tom Jefferson. Tell people, here's your tax money back, governor's you make your own damn state work. I'd handle Iraq by saying, okay you are free now, we can either handle your oil in the big market and leave you alone, or handle your oil in the market with us and what we bring over there. I'd tell old Pakistan, look cough up Bin Ladden, or else you become part of India, we will help them. Then I'd take OBL and put his ass on pay preview getting tortured for a year or so and then a William Wallace hia ass.
Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of demons were I to make a whore of my soul. (Thomas Paine)
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Wholley
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Well,it seems Kerry's been caught again.
he denied being present at a meeting of 'Veterans Against the War" in 1974.At this meeting it was suggested that pro-war Congressmen should be assasinated.The FBI,who were taking a good look at Kerry at the time,place him at the meeting.
This guy just keeps digging.
Wholley.
he denied being present at a meeting of 'Veterans Against the War" in 1974.At this meeting it was suggested that pro-war Congressmen should be assasinated.The FBI,who were taking a good look at Kerry at the time,place him at the meeting.
This guy just keeps digging.
Wholley.
