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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (7334)	3/15/2004 12:25:19 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

So why don't we get down to discussing those issues and find out more about this man and whether he would make a better President than George Bush. Well, incumbents generally LOSE elections vs. opposition parties winning elections. So in my view this election is a mandate against Bush, and theres plenty to run against. For starters Bush's economic team is the worst in the business, consistently wrong, out of touch, and dim at best- corrupt at worst. Kerry will reinstate the Clinton team, or the ideology of the Clinton team, which was far superior. Given that Bush has taken us from surplus to a job loss inflationary "recovery" with the largest deficits ever in 3 short years, a change is warranted imo. The only people questioning Bush's damage done to california are the Bush hacks you see here. Its common knowledge Bush screwed california, even after a hearing judged Enron policies as fraudulent, the Bush controlled energy commission dictated a case of "tough love" while BushCo doled out California money to his oilslick friends.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (7334)	3/15/2004 8:59:11 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

To understand whether Kerry will make a better President than GWB, we have to first see what GWB has done so far. He started out on the "war on terrorism". Did he plan well. I don't think so he provided the leadership to the Pentagon and the others to tell them to plan well. Will Kerry plan better than GWB. I would think so considering that he was Lieutenant in combat and has other credential such as Asstt. DA etc. and a good deal of experience including foreign leaders etc. That is musch more than Bush had before he became President. Now GWB on the economy. He has never had a good economic team. Started with Mr. O'Neil. That choice in itself was bad considering Mr. O'Neal was a steel executive (Alcoa CEO)and hence not very familiar with the "new economy". Then GWB replaced him with Mr. Snow, a railroad executive, another "old economy" guy. Clinton had Mr. Rubin who commanded tremendous respect in Wall Street. Kerry, has that background and knowledge of the high tech arena, the Harvards, Yales, Wall Street, MITs etc. I can bet that he will not have his economic team headed by someone from the ketchup industry. I can talk about the economic policy such as jobs, healthcare etc. but again if we see the Democratic party's record on these issues they are what the people want. That leaves Defense as a differentiator. He has been in combat. Both GWB as well as Clinton did not go to the battlefield. That he went into combat and did not duck it, in itself says that he is ready to go to war if need be. He knows full well what it takes to go to war as well as what it takes to achieve the same objectives without going to war. Of the 3, Clinotn, GWB and Kerry, he is one best suited on the war front. If you like GWB and/or Clinton on the way they have pursued wars, then I do not find any reason to doubt that Kerry will not be better or at least equal their war performance.