We're off!
Tomorrow we take off for Vegas. The odds-makers give Kerry the edge at 11 to 10. Actually, it looks like you can’t bet on the election in Vegas. You have to go to the UK. Party poopers.
Last night, I heard stories from some of the people who went to Reno to walk precincts last weekend. One pair started talking politics at a casino buffet and found they were sitting next to two Bush supporters, one with two sons who are Navy SEALs in the Persian Gulf. By the time they’d finished their generous helpings of snow crab legs and tapioca pudding, they’d convinced both women to vote for Kerry.
I wish I knew what their talking points were. Can you help? Give us your best talking points we can use with our Nevada neighbors.
Here, we’ll get you started:
- Bush wants to ship nukyooler waste through Vegas to dump it forever at Yucca Mountain.
- Justice John Paul Stevens is not immortal.
- Tax cuts for the rich.
- In record time, Bush blew our budget surplus and replaced it with record deficits.
- Abstinence-only sex education doesn't work.
- John Ashcroft
- Abu Ghraib
- Always split aces (Oh, that’s for later.)
- Call it a global test, call it diplomacy, the U.S. must be able to justify its actions around the world.
- Bush is hell-bent on a constitutional amendment to prevent loving same-sex couples from enjoying the more than 1000 federal rights and responsibilities provided to married couples.
posted by Marty Grimes @ 10:40 PM
1 Comments:
Good luck, guys.
Talking points will depend on why the "undecided" voter is waffling. Is it security? Is it the economy? Is it the Easter Bunny? For me the level of Orwellian-type control of this society is scary. (Kicking out school teachers from a Bush rally for wearing "Protect our civil rights" t-shirts????)
But I also I think it's interesting and telling that so many conservatives and conservative publications are finally coming out for Kerry. So, for the econmic undecideds...
Andrew Tobias (http://www.andrewtobias.com/) has an investment web site, but he has been blogging hard against this administration. Here's something he posted last week from a respected management consultant:
Ian Jacobsen, Certified Management Consultant, offers this in his special edition of IanSights:
Issue: Whether or Not to Change Leaders
You are a shareholder in a major global enterprise. In early November you will be voting on various issues, including whether to renew the CEO's contract. The CEO is controversial. Some shareholders are calling for his ouster while others are loyal to him. Though the shareholders' vote is advisory to the board, they generally follow the shareholders' directions.
Your challenge - As a shareholder, you want to do what's right for the future of the enterprise and for your investment. Here are some issues about the CEO's performance:
· He undertook a hostile takeover based on faulty information and assumptions, and with no realistic plan for dealing with the conflict after the takeover. There is no end in sight to the hostilities. They will likely continue for years and are taking a high toll on both enterprises.
· Brand image has gone from being the highly respected three years ago to being mistrusted and despised by many now.
· The enterprise has gone from a record surplus to a record deficit in three years with no end in sight.
· He reduced prices for the richest customers, adding to the deficit.
· He polarized shareholders instead of uniting them as promised.
· He curtailed R&D in a new technology for which your enterprise could have become a world leader.
· He awarded major contracts to cronies without competitive bidding.
The CEO is proud of his performance and promises more of the same.
There is not a client I have had over the past 21 years that would have kept their CEO under such circumstances. They all have held their CEO to higher standards.
While it may be tempting to say, "You got us into this mess, so you get us out," most CEOs who have incurred major problems are replaced. They are seen as part of the problem. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, the significant problems we face cannot be solved using the thinking that created them.
You have probably surmised by now that I am writing about George W. Bush. You are a shareholder in the USA. The board is the Electoral College. On November 2, you will have the opportunity to vote on whether to renew his contract or replace him.
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