Cheney, Edwards Stretch Findings, Facts

Posted October 6, 2004, 1:52 p.m.

My personal analysis of last night’s vice presidential debate probably won’t be finished up until sometime this evening (what with work being so hectic, and so on). In the mean time, check out this informative AP article.

It talks about some of the things that the candidates said last night and how their comments didn’t always jive with reality.

Cheney, Edwards Stretch Findings, Facts (AP via WTOPNews.com).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

The emotions of oratory have been worn down through long years of overuse.

Edward Bernays

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

Paul the Apostle

We’re all putting on an act and hoping the audience buys it.

Scott Adams

Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.

Calvin Coolidge

The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice—that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favor of an individual.

Sigmund Freud

The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

James Burgh

In a free market, the money of ordinary people is just as good as the money of the rich—and in the aggregate, there is often more of it.

Thomas Sowell

The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.

Theodore Parker

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Nate Silver

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Edgar Allan Poe

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses.

Hannah Arendt

I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

Francis (Pope)

I do not promise you happiness in this world, but in the next.

Mary (Blessed Virgin)

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Edgar Allan Poe

Belief in immortality dies easily in those who live in such a way that they cannot face the prospect of a judgment.

Fulton Sheen

All economic transactions involve mutual accommodation and each transactor has to make the deal a net benefit to the other transactor, in order to have a deal at all.

Thomas Sowell

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Ezra Solomon

Upon the whole, I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

G.K. Chesterton

A little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.

Donald Trump

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