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Domestic Issues

02.17.07 ø 17
So the House passed a measure yesterday which declared their direct opposition Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, according to this article. It's not the real thing yet, the president is still going forward with his plan at this time, but it is the Senate's turn to vote on the measure. They are [...]

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Bush Re-Elected

11.03.04 ø Comments Off
I know I'm a bit late with the announcement, hehe, but YES! GWB has been re-elected! I'm so happy that it turned out this way...my personal values and beliefs on issues coincide alot more with Bush's policies than Kerry's. I have a few classes tomorrow where a good number of them supported the senator in [...]

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Election Day 2004

11.02.04 ø Comments Off
I just voted an hour ago! I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning and rushed down to my polling place (a local library) in order to get in line. There were already about 10 people there queueing, so I set up a chair that I brought and started reading more of my book [...]

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Leo DiCaprio Visits UCF

10.19.04 ø 7
So the world-famed "hearthrob" Leonardo DiCaprio graced the students at the University of Central Florida with his presence this afternoon. I was too late to actually get into the Pegasus Ballroom, where he was speaking, but I was probably within at least 50 feet of the actor during some interval. Hehehe. It is a [...]

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On the Issues

10.06.04 ø 7
PresidentMatch.com is a website that allows you take a sort of "quiz" to see what presidential candidate you match up with the most depending on your opinions of the major issues debated in our nation. It told me that I was 52% for Bush and 47% for Kerry. That's pretty close. I am a professed [...]

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Debate 2004 Kickoff

10.01.04 ø Comments Off
Last night was the first of several debates between Kerry and the President. They talked alot about the issue of Iraq and the war, with Kerry questioning many of Bush's decisions while the President himself upheld them. In rebuttal Bush emphasized many times that he doesn't believe that the war is a "great diversion" [...]

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