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Yep, So What? Debates wrap up

Debates suck. I’m sorry, but they do. They are completely meaningless. We learn nothing from debates. All I can do is quote the great jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and say, “So What?” Let’s think about this just for second. Suppose Barack Obama had come out on the offensive. Suppose that he had jumped on every misstatement and unsupported piece of data that Mitt Romney offered up throughout this first debate. What would have happened? Barack Obama would be painted by the Right as having been too aggressive. “He is overly aggressive. He’s a man; he’s angry.” You know where this would

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Wednesday Morning News Roundup

Wednesday Morning News Roundup There are certain memes or themes that never seem to go away. One of the strongest seems to be that Democrats are soft on crime/terrorism. We can go back to Michael Dukakis being painted with Willie Horton. Currently, Republicans are using a variation on this theme by saying that President Barack Obama has skipped intelligence briefings. This is not true. The number of uninsured Americans has declined in many states. This is good. Housing market appears to be improving. If, for some reason, you haven’t seen Mitt Romney’s “secret” video in which he is talking to fundraisers, the video

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Errington C. Thompson, MD

Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.

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