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Sat Oct-09-04 11:12 PM
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| Nixon-Kennedy debate 9/26/60 on CSpan1 Now.....they had 8 min. opening |
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statements, can you believe it??
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:13 PM
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| 1. Wow. Contrast Nixon with Bush's babbling. |
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I never thought I would admire Nixon.
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:18 PM
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| 2. OOOO, and look-real journalists! |
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Wow. I knew a time like this existed once upon a time.
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| Doosh
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:40 PM
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| 8. journalistus-reportus, went extinct in the mid 1990's |
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:54 PM
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| 13. Nixon may have been personally despicable ... |
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but he was intelligent and well-educated. As a person, many of the things he said and did I find reprehensible -- but I'd never call him stupid or thoughtless. If you didn't watch him, he also was a fairly compelling speaker. Unlike Bush*, it was only the tics and twitches and the sweaty lip that beat him -- he had substance, whether you agreed with it or not, and lacked style. Our Naked Emperor lacks both style and substance and relies on fear and disingenuous sales pitches to maintain his position.
Nixon would have admired Shrub's hangers-on and had no respect for Shrub himself, I bet.
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:24 PM
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| 3. The quality of the discussion |
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is amazing.
Just think, in 1960, not many people had college degrees, & yet they could follow & understand these debates.
The dumbing down of America is continually on the march!
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| Robert Oak
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:25 PM
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| 5. back then high school meant something |
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:44 PM
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| 9. today, even many with College Degrees would not be able to follow |
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this debate. or even the current debates which have been very much dumbed down.
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| Robert Oak
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:25 PM
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| 4. way more substance and civil |
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shocking...it's like real legislators versus what we have today.
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| Gloria
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:27 PM
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| 6. Holy shit, this discussion of farm prices is like a PhD class compared |
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to the crap we're having to endure....
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:27 PM
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| 7. if Nixon was running today |
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He would be labeled a bleeding left liberal...
look at this, the government MUST help!
Now all we have is free trade, free trade, the government can't do
anything...
hmmm....
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:44 PM
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| 10. Thanks!!! Because of your post, we're watching it. |
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I do remember it, I was a kid.
I never thought I'd look at Nixon and think he seemed un-crazy.
Chimp is decidedly completely hyped-up fucking insane.
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| Gloria
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:50 PM
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| 11. PS--This was the FIRST EVER Presidential debate....amazing. |
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Sat Oct-09-04 11:52 PM
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| 12. Is it going to play again? Like to record it.... nt |
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