Why You Can't Catch Kerry in a Lie

[dreissig]

One of the geniuses at those brainy Massachusetts colleges must have figured it out for him. There's no way to catch John Kerry in a lie. He can tailor his presentation to any audience, and everything he says will be truthful. It's amazing.

The math is a bit tricky, so pay attention. Every Kerry action has two outcomes, the record and the report. For example, Kerry voted for the IWR, but his statements describing that vote are different from the record. Each mathematical "tree" has two branches, and each branch has two more branches, etc. If you are computer literate, you can see where this is headed. Each branch increases the number of outcomes by a power of two. Thus, sixteen Kerry actions can be interpreted a staggering number of ways. Don't look it up! Two to the 16th is a pretty big number - 20,000,000,000,000,000.

Kerry can get up in front of little old ladies and tell one story, then appear before the American Legion with a completely different story. And every one of these stories is true! This is a man who pays attention to his constituents. They wanted him to oppose the IWR, and he totally dissed it. He talked it down unmercifully! Don't nitpick that he actually voted for it, shame on you.

[meisje]

1. I figured it was because

by the time he says two words, I'm asleep!

[dreissig]

2. Two Words, One Outcome

You must be using some data compression algorithm.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. Why you can't catch Kerry on election day.

Because he's the real deal, the voters recognize that, and they want to vote for someone who leads by inspiring them, not by making them angry.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. Bingo, I look for Kerry/Clark style INSPIRATION, not....

Vermont Governor style anger.

[Guaranteed]

9. But, hey, just because people VOTE for Kerry, it doesn't mean

that they really wanted Kerry to BE the nominee!! Maybe they were just saying that they wanted him to be the nominee in order to pressure the UN into invading Iraq! I think we're going to have to listen a bit more closely to what the voters really want...they can be very nuanced, you know. These primaries are very complicated issues!

[Sly Kal]

19. Touche`

lol

[molly]

16. You got that right!

I was sitting in a sales office yesterday afternoon. People were discussing HD. I have no idea what their party affiliation is - but the one thing they all agreed upon was that HD acted "like a crazy man" in Iowa. Most of them commented what a scarey idea it would be to have him president. Some said that they were embarrassed FOR him.

Voters don't typically pay attention until January and it's January.

[Soj]

5. If by '20,000,000,000,000,000'...

You mean '65,536'.

[dreissig]

6. Exponentiation Operator

I assumed the exponentiation operator in MS Excel is a double asterisk, like it is elsewhere. Instead, it's a caret. 2^16 = 65,536.

Now I'm puzzled by what this 2**16 is. I should have gotten an error message.

I was about to draw a Pascal's Triangle of Kerry's positions but I was daunted by the huge number of possibilities. Maybe it's still possible to trap Kerry in a lie.

[kiahzero]

8. ** = Mantissa Representation

First number = Mantissa
Second number = Exponent

So 2 ** 16 = 2 * 10^16

By the way, the caret is the standard way of representing exponentiation.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. 65,536 ways is much more manageable, imho.

[Guaranteed]

10. LOL nt

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Soj!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[KoKo]

11. Well ......I guess he's caught on to the "SpinSpinSpin," and if it worked

in the past and it's worked for Chimp ....then wthe hell! Go For It!

Can't say as I blame him...depends on what you believe. :shrug:

[mopinko]

12. ding ding ding

we have a winner!!!!!!!!!

[cthrumatrix]

17. LOL...and this is Our Leader...? give me a break

[creativelcro]

13. Ehmm, 2 to the 16 is 65536. What are you talking about ?

>>
look it up! Two to the 16th is a pretty big number - 20,000,000,000,000,000.

[ACPS65]

14. .

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/polls/tracking_poll/

[BeatleBoot]

15. Sounds Like Bush's Fuzzy Math

Kerry won Iowa.

:7

[Cocoa]

20. link?

Please provide a link for the claim, "they wanted him to oppose the IWR, and he totally dissed it."

When and where did he do this, I missed it, exactly how did he dis the IWR?

Thanks.