# Bush v. Kerry, Round Three **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 13, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997 "2004-10-13T13:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/261 "2004-10-14T01:49:51Z")
Bush doesn’t believe in amnesty? Didn’t he SIGN an amnesty? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/262 "2004-10-14T01:50:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Sure you won’t reconsider? 🙂 Just the sort of response we should expect from someone named BrainGlutton! 😛 But no, I won’t reconsider; Kerry keeps saying things that piss me off, so there’s no hope of that. It is nice to know that I, a young voter, have value to him to fill the hole in Soc that was bipartisan-ly built by diverting funds from Soc to other projects. I’m not sure that’s better or worse than most politicians completely ignoring voters under 30… ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/263 "2004-10-14T01:50:04Z")
Uh, how will people _get_ the card? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/264 "2004-10-14T01:50:05Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > We should have instituted a drinking rule for every time Bush grins like an asshole after saying something that wasn’t a joke. There isn’t enough beer in the world. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/265 "2004-10-14T01:50:28Z")
Yanks up 1 to zip in the bottom of the 5th. ---
**Author:** ![presidebt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/266 "2004-10-14T01:50:33Z")
What, didn’t Bush want to naturalize 3 million Hispanic illegals here in the US now a few years ago? I think 2001? Now he’s saying Kerry supports amnesty? ---
**Author:** ![WindFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a183cd/32.png) [@WindFish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WindFish)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/267 "2004-10-14T01:50:39Z")
I find Bush’s ‘exasperated’ tone increasingly tiring. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/268 "2004-10-14T01:51:45Z")
> [@WindFish](#): > > I find Bush’s ‘exasperated’ tone increasingly tiring. Hey! Where did a ‘Registered User’ come from? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/269 "2004-10-14T01:51:47Z")
Mommy how do borders work? ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/270 "2004-10-14T01:51:49Z")
Kerry: “It’s against the law in the United States to hire people illegally.” You don’t say. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/271 "2004-10-14T01:51:56Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > “We’re increasing the border of the United States” Afghanistan, Iraq, and DON’T forget Poland! ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/272 "2004-10-14T01:52:19Z")
Allegedly, Senator? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/273 "2004-10-14T01:52:20Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > “We’re increasing the border of the United States” Increasing the border? Did someone conquer Canada and Mexico and not tell me? [whiny voice]Come on guys[/whiny voice] ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/274 "2004-10-14T01:52:23Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Bush doesn’t believe in amnesty? Didn’t he SIGN an amnesty? [Yup](http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2949) > [@](#): > > The Bush Amnesty Plan: A Tragedy in Three Acts > > by William Buchanan > Posted Jan 30, 2004 > > Many individual events have occurred during the Bush Administration’s tenure. However, there is one theme that consistently flows through the administration’s domestic security initiatives. It is an undisguised, almost obsessive effort to eliminate our southern border. > > Complementing this endeavor is the one and only goal of Mexico’s Fox administration?to drive as many Mexicans into the United States as possible. Bush’s new “temporary worker” plan, in rapacious pursuit of cheap labor and votes, prefigures national self-destruction, while Fox seeks to maintain the corrupt and oppressive oligarchy that misgoverns Mexico. Go conservative media!!! Tee hee. It’s fun when they fling poo at each other! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/275 "2004-10-14T01:52:51Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Hey! > > Where did a ‘Registered User’ come from? Either that was the quickest change do ‘Charter Member’ I’ve ever seen, or I deserve to be out of beer. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/276 "2004-10-14T01:53:06Z")
If I shut off my eyes and only listen, it sounds like Kerry is a cat playing with a trapped mouse. It’s only a matter of time before he swallows that mouse whole. (Please, no homosexual jokes!) ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/277 "2004-10-14T01:53:07Z")
Min wage should be at least $10.00 an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/278 "2004-10-14T01:53:19Z")
Raise minimum wage? Thatd’d be good. Reaaaalllll good. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/279 "2004-10-14T01:53:40Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Yanks up 1 to zip in the bottom of the 5th. Houston 4, St. Louis 3, bottom of the 5th. See, I figure, if the Sox win, then Kerry wins the debate. If the Astros win (and yes, I’m aware that it was the Rangers, not the Astros), then Bush wins. If both win or both lose, it’s a tie. Considering that the pundits can’t seem to come up with any sort of consensus, I see no problem with my system. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997/280 "2004-10-14T01:53:43Z")
(I haven’t been reading this all the way through, so sorry if this is redundant) Bush keeps telling lame jokes that get roaring laughs and cheers at his Republican rallies, but with a silent audience they hand in the air like a bad fart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-v-kerry-round-three/268997.md?page=15)