2008 Vice Presidential Debate TONIGHT

Posted October 2, 2008, 3:20 p.m.

The only formal Vice Presidential debate scheduled between Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) will be held tonight at 9pm EDT. Third-party candidates are excluded from participation.

Tonight’s debate will be held at Washington University in St. Louis and will be moderated by PBS Washington Week host Gwen Ifill.

I strongly recommend that all Americans watch this debate, as well as the two remaining Presidential debates between now and the November elections. For unfettered coverage, I recommend watching the debates on C-SPAN rather than any of the commercial broadcast and cable news outlets.

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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All power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

It has long been thought to be a well founded position, that the purse and sword ought not to be placed in the same hands in a free government.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Those who understand freedom as the radically arbitrary license to do just what they want and to have their own way are living in a lie, for by his very nature man is part of a shared existence and his freedom is shared freedom.

Science is not a monolithic body of doctrine. Science is a culture, constantly growing and changing.

Error necessitates sacrifice to correct it, and serious error necessitates serious sacrifice. To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you’ve run up a dangerously large sacrificial debt.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

It is not ‘progressive’ to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

Freedom comes from being moral. Slavery to sin arises from being immoral.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

But you can be certain, you want-to-be tyrants, that your slaves will take their revenge where they can, even if that means merely being much less than they could be.

Socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, bureaucratic greed, corruption, and avarice. . . .

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

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

The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people.

The history of every human being passes through the threshold of a woman’s motherhood.

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.

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