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CNET News.com's Washington watcher, Declan McCullagh, examines why quadrennial tech promises from presidential wannabes rarely get acted on.
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Why CNET continues to use someone who has such a biased track record as their "chief political correspondent" I don't know. Look, Pat Buchanan has an opinion and it is valuable but nobody would hire him to write most of their campaign coverage. You freaking hack, 12 freaking years later and you're still hating Bill Clinton?
Is anybody at the throttle there at CNET? Or are the editors still chasing skirt there? You know who I speak of you sexual harasment hacks.
Hack, hack hack. 12 hack 13 Clinton-hack-esque hacker hacked fgt hack.
Hack.
Why CNET continues to use someone who has such a biased track record as their "chief political correspondent" I don't know. Look, Pat Buchanan has an opinion and it is valuable but nobody would hire him to write most of their campaign coverage. You freaking hack, 12 freaking years later and you're still hating Bill Clinton?
Is anybody at the throttle there at CNET? Or are the editors still chasing skirt there? You know who I speak of you sexual harasment hacks.
Hack, hack hack. 12 hack 13 Clinton-hack-esque hacker hacked fgt hack.
Hack.
Yours truly,
Mr. X
...vote Libertarian...
Yours truly,
Mr. X
...vote Libertarian...
The truth is, regardless of who you vote for (including Badnarik), we have a system of checks and balances. To be realistic no candidate should make promises as virtually none of them can be assured of being kept, but lay out what they would like to do. Granted they would skewered alive for taking such a truthful approach.
We vote for the candidates hoping that they will lean the country in the direction we want it to go but "lean" is the operative word. If a president states that they WILL do something you can be assured that will rub someone the wrong way and they will block, or attempt to block, it in the Senate. That's why it's politics. It is a delicate game, played by balancing words with benign definitions that can be interpreted how you want at a later date.
It may be the ugly face of the system but at the same time it is its beauty.
Kevin Marshbank
marshbank@gmail.com
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- by November 4, 2004 9:40 AM PST
- I didn't see any attacks on Clinton as the first poster fumed.
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(8 Comments)The truth is, regardless of who you vote for (including Badnarik), we have a system of checks and balances. To be realistic no candidate should make promises as virtually none of them can be assured of being kept, but lay out what they would like to do. Granted they would skewered alive for taking such a truthful approach.
We vote for the candidates hoping that they will lean the country in the direction we want it to go but "lean" is the operative word. If a president states that they WILL do something you can be assured that will rub someone the wrong way and they will block, or attempt to block, it in the Senate. That's why it's politics. It is a delicate game, played by balancing words with benign definitions that can be interpreted how you want at a later date.
It may be the ugly face of the system but at the same time it is its beauty.
Kevin Marshbank
marshbank@gmail.com