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

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (36245)	7/19/2004 10:53:28 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<Quite frankly I am sick of it> Get a life! No one is forcing you to read about Bush and Kerry, Skull and Bones, Tweedledum and Deedletwee, Mutt and Jeff. You get the picture. Have you ever noticed that the bigger and more important the potential issues to be decided at an election, the more the candidates (and platforms) of the main parties resemble each other? That's democracy in action. You get to pick the winner, but you DON'T get to pick the players. To be sure, this Presidential election exhibits simultaneously the biggest issues faced by US voters in living memory coupled with a lack of choice between candidates and platforms which is also the biggest in living memory. Within the general scheme of things, SI political threads are just sounding boards; they have very little, if any impact on the general election.

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (36245)	7/19/2004 11:03:00 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The negative nature of this political season is primarily being fueled by the series of negative ads that the Bush campaign has been putting out. The only positive Bush ad that I can remember was his very first one where he claimed to be a successful leader on the fight against terrorism for which he was criticized. Such criticism is expected of an incumbent. If he sincerely believes in it, he should have a persistent defense for his claims. Instead he attacks his opponent when we all know that the criticism did not come from his opponent. Kerry, on the other hand has not taken any advantage of the Iraq war. I have not seen any of his ads showing coffins of dead soldiers or focussing on casualty figures in personnel and money. IMO Americans are fed up with this war mongering, warnings of imminent Al Qaeda attacks with nothing happening. Instead we would prefer the Govt. to act quietly, swiftly and decisively than just make noise about impending terrorist threats. So we need a President to lead us into peace while at the same time taking the responsibility to keep us safe and providing us with opportunities to fulfill the American dream. I would hope that the past 4 years was a curse on the US that we will soon forget. Is that a thought in fantasy land you think?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (36245)	7/19/2004 11:21:18 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

what was the point other than it ended up bashing all their children for no other reason that their parents choose a public life We are in complete agreement. The Republicans shouldn't have started such stupid unpleasantness, should they have? I assume that you sent a similar admonishment to those who were gleefully and nastily posting about Alexandra Kerry's dress? and that you admonished Bill for his recent nasty (and unsupported) insinuations about Chelsea Clinton? Edit: all cannes is about is film and parading partially naked women You do know this, don't you? Message 20318543 Message 20318140 I strongly suspect that Alexandra Kerry didn't know she'd appear "partially naked" when she left home, since there's no reason to believe she's either a fool or a "lady of the night," to quote an SI Republican's query about her, a term translated by other Republicans as "whore."