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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (21736)	7/9/2003 3:44:48 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

spirit- if you'll recall, the way bush got so many votes was by pretending to be compassionate and pretending to adopt a conservative democratic platform. jeckle didn't become hyde until he lowered his arm at his inauguration. i fell for the pretense and almost voted for a fourth party candidate, thinking bush and gore were the same candidate and that i might be able to stand dubya if he really did all the stuff he said he stood for... he even pretended to be an environmentalist. it got him enough votes to get close enough to win through the supreme court, but he did a 180 on almost his entire campaign platform the day after he was sworn in. i don't think this country is looking for a combat hero for president, either legitimate OR phoney - i think they're looking for a CEO with diplomatic skills who respects the original founder's ideas of what america is about - someone who will govern without secrecy and with open participation and input by the citizens - someone who knows that 90 percent of america's top businesses are international in scope... depending on customers, partnerships and investors from the entire world - and that if we don't play fairly and responsibly with them - they'll avoid us like a plague. that's the kind of candidate we voted for last time but it turned out that he was just pretending. no more pretenders!! - we might even be checking resumes for qualifications and references before voting this time. dean's resume is fine by me... kerry's a senator. i like him fine... but senators can't win elections - people won't vote for them because they fear they've already been bought and paid for by special interests, corporate money and political favors. look at the past ten presidents. how many senators or congressmen do you see? how many governors? however, i still promise to vote for whoever wins the demo nod... i know you don't believe me yet, but dean's the most electable of the bunch... the primaries will tell. -polvo