Second Presidential Debate TONIGHT!

Posted October 8, 2004, 1:17 p.m.

The second debate between President George W. Bush (R) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) will occur tonight at 9:00 at Washington University. The debate will be covered on most television networks and news channels (I recommend C-SPAN for unfettered coverage).

Tonight’s debate will be in a Town Hall style and moderated by ABC News’s Charlie Gibson. Gibson will select questioners from among the audience, all of whom will be undecided voters. Questions will be about both foreign and domestic policy issues.

Be sure to tune in! As usual, I’ll post my analysis for your enjoyment sometime tonight or tomorrow.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed . . .

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

Do you want to know why people are trapped in poverty in so many inner cities? The picture is complex, but undeniably a key element of it is the destruction of the family and the prevalence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and fatherlessness.

The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.

America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. . . . The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the Establishment.

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Normally the man of great productive capacity who becomes rich by guiding the labor of many other men does so by enabling them to produce more than they could produce without his guidance; and both he and they share in the benefit, which comes also to the public at large.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘facts.’ They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws. . . .

Economic transactions are not a zero-sum process, where one person loses whatever the other person gains.

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgement.

Many economic fallacies are due to conceiving of economic activity as a zero-sum contest, in which what is gained by one is lost by another.

We rail against ‘special interests’ except when the ‘special interest’ happens to be our own.

There is no instance of any government being reduced to a confirmed tyranny without military oppression.

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