Well, here we are the day before E-Day. I wish I had more time to have played with you folks these past couple of days, what with 84 messages waiting in my in-box for a replies. Sorry, I won't get to 'em.
Yesterday I traveled to NYC and am now visiting with my girlfriend who'll soon be packing up moving my way to live along the ocean, after 20 years in The Big Apple! Now, there's a victory.
Anyway, I'm heading back to Mass. tonight, transporting four cats in a small car--wish me luck! I sure hope Bush doesn't win tomorrow--that'd be two smelly days in a row for me--LOL! And if these cats could have voted in New York, Gore would have gotten four more votes. (LOL)
So here's my final pre-election day comment.
If you wanna support Bush, who hasn't given a press conference in the two months preceeding the election, and who shows up at candidate events reading from teleprompters or shouting out one-liner issues sprinkled in with criticisms against his opponent, who then pats and shakes, winks and blinks and skips on to the next stop, avoiding the press all the way, relying only on distortive television commercials--well, if you wanna be fed information like that from your candidate, well go for it. In my view, supporting a candidate like that is a dumbing down of America type vote.
Why no press conferences until forced into doing one due to the driving under the influence conviction in Maine? 'Cause Bush didn't want the American people to know about it. Why? Likely, 'cause there's something else in the background which he didn't want known and which would have been scrutinized had he been up front on the DUI offense.
My complaint has nothing to do with Bush's DUI. That's water over the damn. However, I consider it serious the manner in which he covered over the incident, using his two 18-year-old twin daughters as an excuse why he didn't want to inform the American people. Frankly, that excuse is inexcusable and nothing but a fraud on the people.
Fact is, his 18-year-olds, as voters, had a right to be informed about his DUI.
By the way, anyone know why Bush had his driver's license number changed in Texas?
Further, claiming, in his campaign literature, he was a pilot for six years when he only flew for 22 months, refusing the urine test in the pilot's physical and then claiming he didn't take the test 'cause his personal physician was in Houston, even though all pilots use the same doctors and same medical facilities, is an outright, utter lie. Yet another fraud on the people.
Meanwhile, aside from taking in all the Big Oil/Insurance/HMO money and spending more than any presidential candidate in history (nice frugal GOPwinger, huh?) Bush's strategy has only been:
* Paint his opponent as a "liar," in a pat line whisper campaign designed for breakfast and lunch counters all over America.
* Steal Gore's major issues, the ones which would have the most impact on the people, prescription drugs for example.
* Ignore the Republican platform which could be harmful to his campaign. Ever hear him refer to it during his campaign? No, you haven't.
* Spout the lucrative tax cut--which would never pass in Congress--of which 85 percent of the cuts benefit incomes over $300,000. Also, his Social Security plan flies in the face of the American Academy of Actuaries which condemned it. But, as always, the tax cut sounds good and it is appealing that young folks could invest their social security money into the market--a very dangerous and potentially bankrupting strategy. You don't think the market's gonna see a drop once the Baby Boomers are no longer newly investing?
So why no press conferences? Aside from being afraid of being exposed in a scandal, Bush simply can't defend his above two proposals, and he'd look foolish trying to do so.
* Spout his education record in Texas, which has been disproven by a Rand Study. Rand originally praised this plan, until it discovered that the Texan students only did well on state exams but performed poorly against federal standards.
* Finally, all of the above was contingent specifically on avoiding mainstream media, except for friendly press, not answering direct questions.
Rather than go on and on and on, which I could, I won't. Bush would be a disaster for people. Better to embrace Gore's modest tax cuts coupled with his keeping of a very sensible Rainy Day Fund. This enables the continuation of paying off the third largest expenditure in government: the
federal debt. I don't know why you GOPwingers ain't in favor of this. It's boggling! With gains from reducing this expenditure comes a stronger and more effective government.
Does anyone know of Bush's "strategy for the Middle-East," which he claimed to have, but never supported, during the debates? Bush can't deal with Africa, he can't deal with Asia, he can't deal with Latin America. He might do well with Europeans, but that's about it. Again, anyone know his "strategy on the Middle East? You don't, do you?
It'd be a very grave mistake to vote for Bush. It'd be a diaster, and very likely we'll be faced with more of the sames kinds of challenges against him that we saw against Clinton, relative to scandal, etc. Heck, his running mate, Dick Cheney, has only voted twice in the past 16 elections--yet he now wants us to vote for him. No way!
And I write the above within the backdrop that I'm not voting for Gore. Since I live in Massachusetts, I'm voting for Nader--because Gore will easily win Massachusetts. If I lived elsewhere, I'd vote for Gore.
Good luck folks, let's hope the Democrats win!
I don't want a president who hides behind 18-year-old children; I don't want a president who, when answering a reporter's question whether he'd been arrested, replies: "I made mistakes as a youth." Well, if being arrested and convicted at age 30 is being arrested and convicted as a "youth," I don't want anything to do with the GOPwinging liar! Squarely, Bush is a hypocrite and one far worse than Gore. Do you?
In closing, I've enjoyed tremendously the live dialouge we've shared on this thread. And even though we've had some tense and combative moments, please do know that each and every one of you has earned my respect.
Finally, if you live in a hot, contested state--vote Democrat! If you live in a state where either Gore or Bush will win easily--vote Green!
Fare ye well and enjoy the intensity of tomorrow.
Best Wishes,
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