We are able to have intelligent debates, despite different opinions, because we are honest. There are a lot of people out there who will do anything to get their agenda across, sell more newspapers, or whatever. Just watch the headlines in the paper or listen to the pundits on television. Sometime this is deliberate, sometimes it is due to incompetence: I once read an article in the USA Today that claimed that small cars are unsafe. The theory sounds likely and the writer used several dozen statistics. Unfortunately, he did not use a single one of those statistics correctly; every single one was misrepresented or vague. The problem is, the general public does not have the inclination to spend the vast amounts of time necessary to really understand the candidates or the issues.

Instead, we hear that "Al Gore claims he invented the internet." What he said was that he sponsored legislation that helped create the internet explosion in '96. Do the zealots care? The newspapermen? The Bush supporter making fun of Gore?

-Biscuits