Geoff Burling wrote
For many of us --including me -- this coming U.S.
election has set our
tempers on edge.
Ed Poor has a point about the explosives story. One of the newspapers I
read splashed it on the front page, the other had a much smaller piece tying
it to the Kerry campaign.
This does seem to be a testing time for Wikipedians who have a stake in the
US Presidential election. Time for some self-denying behaviour?
Ed's edits are egregiously pro-Bush (no change there); I spent the same five
minutes googling the Ed Prescott (recent Nobel) 'Bush's tax cuts if anything
too small' story that Ed added recently (with only an external link to a
clearly partisan web page); Prescott signed an open letter for the Bush
campaign released on Monday, along with 100s of other economists, and is an
expert on productivity rather than tax. Apparently the Kerry campaign has
ten economics Nobels as signatures to their letter. I wonder what any of
this proves.
I learn little enough from this. I wish we had more (any?) Americans able
to explain US politics on the site, getting away from the partisan side.
Charles