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Chances are, if you're reading this thread or posting in it, you've probably made up your mind on your candidate of choice. While the debates will not change many minds, readers here should remember that the rest of America, the America that basically does not follow politics closely, will be enormously affected by the debates. We'll see what their reaction is in the morning.
I just briefly made the mistake of turning to MSNBC where the ubiquitous Chris Matthews was pontificating. I only left it tuned there for a sentence or two because it wasn't that other blowhard, Olbermann. Matthews was explaining for all our edification about how it was hardly undesirable to leave a war incomplete. Take, well, Korea for example and then, well, there's Korea.
90 seconds of this nitwit was more than enough to wonder who the heck is paying him all that money to discuss things he knows nothing about! We left Korea in a stalemate to basically avoid a massive war with the Chinese which, if we'd have continued to push north, we'd have gotten. Now leaving under such circumstances is understandable but it's hard to look back, as Matthews is apparently incapable of doing, and say that the end result was desirable. Last I checked, there's a sawed-off wack-job in charge over there in the North and he's developing and exporting some scary weaponry. Mr. Matthews is apparently unwilling to concede that there might be more of a similarity of consequences between Iraq and Korea than might first be imagined.
I cannot imagine listening to such claptrap for longer than 90 seconds.
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