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Politics : Vote Bush out - here are the reasons why -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (89)	8/6/2004 12:17:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 383

No matter how nasty the rightwing gets in this re-fighting of the Vietnam War and slandering of JK's war record, they will always lose. Number one, everyone with a brain now knows that bloody war was an awful mistake. Number two, Kerry was a combat hero and Bush avoided the war completely as only a rich kid with a powerful dad could. Even if the Bushies can prove Kerry was 20% less heroic than before (and they can't) it wouldn't matter, he was still heroic. When Sean Hannity calls for atrocities investigations into Kerry during Vietnam it makes him sound like a leftwing radical in 1969. Why can't guys liike Hannity just tell the truth once in awhile? They can't because the truth doesn't fit their spin. SWiftVets were a bad mistake for the Bushies. They were very easy to prove dishonest, dishonorable and merely politically partisan in a most negative way. They were basically calling Jim Rassman and the Navy liars, not Kerry. McCain's siding with Kerry pretty much wins that fight anyway. You could see a real meltdown in the Bush campaign now. Lots of negativity infecting them at every level. Their only issue is to try and scare us with terrorist threads which may or may not even be realistic.

To: one_less who wrote (89)	8/8/2004 10:52:43 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 383

Your train of thought in your series of posts indicates that since Kerry is bad we need to keep Bush. Your premise that Kerry does not measure up is based on what he did in conditions and situations which are not similar to a Presidential situation. So in such situations Americans have given the candidate the benefit of the doubt. When Bush ran in 2000, he said he was a compassionate conservative and people gave him the benefit of the doubt even though as Governor he had exercised the death penalty very harshly, the racial strife in Texas is very high etc. But still when he said he was a "compassionate conservative" we believed him. $ years later, he is neither. What compassion? People are suffering with no jobs, no healthcare and he does not even tell the people he is sorry for their pain. What conservative. I have never known a conservative turning a blind eye to deficit budgets. Bush also said in 2000, that he does not believe in being the policeman of the world. But he did exactly the opposite. He invaded Iraq. If he realized that the war is a mistake then why is policing Iraq? Why did he not work towards a international force to police Iraq. Instead he wanted to award lucrative civil contracts to a few of his buddies, excluded other world nations and caused a situation which forced him to cut and run on June 30. So this election is going to be about what we know about Bush, that he is the devil, one who has done what he has done. Do we want more of the same? Or do we want to go and look for something new as in Kerry. Is this country founded in that spirit? The early settlers abandoned their country since they had no faith in their future and set out in search of something new and whoa they landed in America. I think we still have that spirit. According to a TIME poll, 48% still feel the same way as the early settlers and are voting for Kerry. They will soon be joined by the remaining 9% who are still sitting on the fence.