10-11-2004, 06:01 AM
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Location: in the backwoods
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Yup.
This is what I said about it in the veep debate thread.
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I was really struck by the fact that both Cheney and Edwards were poor growing up and have made it on their own, compared to Bush and Kerry who both had the best upbringing and attended the best schools and came from the best families in America. I'll go further out on a limb and say that I wish both tickets were reversed. Not only do I have greater respect for self-made men, but they are more articulate than their top of the ticket partners, and I think either vp candidate would do a better job running the country. Let the super privileged men attend funerals and fulfill diplomatic and ceremonial duties. It's an interesting sociological observation that maybe you can go a long way in America on your own, but where and to whom you are born still has such a dramatic effect. (Well, maybe Clinton is an exception) Maybe it's just me and my personal biases, though. Now that I've goten completely off-topic, I'll just say again that I thought it was a good debate, and if they're going to attack each other, I'm glad they did it face to face, and I think Cheney won, but it was close.
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