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October 13, 2004

Wandering the room

8:26 - BUsh on sanctity of marriage - biggest round of applause of the night. Boom.

Talked with Nancy from ProtestWarrior - "Bush is rocking!"

8:28 - Teresa, "I think Bush is n the offenseive".

8:30 - Bartender: "They're tipping pretty good, considering they're not drinking all that much." That's actually a pretty good endorsement, I think.

8:31 - Larry, from the Bush/Cheney campaign: "Bush is getting all the homerun lines". Laura from B/C - 'protect the earth, but not the babies?" Larry: "Kerry's babbling!"

8:32 - Flipped over to Matt Yglesias' blog. He's carping about how Bush's mouth looks. Tooooooo wierd. Way to focus on the things that matter, leftyblogs!

8:36 - Rocket man: "He's walking right into a trap on the flu vaccine...Bush is doing very, very well!". Rocket man likes it. Rocket man hates everything! Listening to Kerry talking about healthcare, Craig Westover: "That's why we're having a problem with the flu vaccine..."

8:38 - Captain Ed - "KErry's been very defensive so far...Bush is doing very well">

Long-suffering Jay Larson - "I came up to the front to sit - people in the back are getting amost livid!"

Cindy: "Kerry's not doing so well this evening - he's not answering the questions - he's out of touch with the average American, and he just repeats and repeats what he's been saying for weeks - I think te prsident is doing a much better job - appearing realistic, yet conveying strength. I mean, we know he can't put these things in place without taxes!

Posted by Mitch at October 13, 2004 08:31 PM | TrackBack
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Damn! Thanks for the link Mitch. I have a column on the flu vaccine shortage and how Kerry's (and Dayton's) medicare price negotiation for prescription drugs will create the same kind of shortage. It was suppose to run in the Pioneer Press yesterday, but the endorsment crunch has it on hold -- the space problem of "dead tree" media. Ethically, I shouldn't post it until it runs in the paper, but the spot on observation is that if Kerry's plan to both reimport drugs and have Medicare negotiate prices is implemented, medication shortages -- as they have in the vaccine business -- are going to become the norm.

For your readers interested in the topic, here's a link to blog response to Mark Dayton on reimportation (http://craigwestover.blogspot.com/2004/10/mark-dayton-free-market-champion.html) that discusses half the problem. Hopefull the vaccine column will still run this week. A linked version will appear on my site. Even I was surprised by how throughly government has screwed up the vaccination industry.

Posted by: Craig Westover at October 14, 2004 08:37 AM
hi