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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19168)	10/15/2004 8:38:26 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

Ann. Here's that new Womens for Bush web site. Softer Voices. Women for Bush Why We Care Heather Higgins softervoices.org On September 11, 2001, I stood three blocks from the World Trade Center and saw people, unable to bear the inferno above, desperately grabbing at the air as they plummeted to the ground. I helped bandage a woman, standing where I, my husband, and our three-year-old son had been standing minutes before, injured by debris from the second explosion. I came home to see the news that a good friend had been on the hijacked plane that had been crashed into the Pentagon, and to learn that the terrorists had deliberately hijacked other planes full of people, as their goal was to kill as many Americans as they could. In the aftermath of 9/11, I remember being relieved that we had George Bush as president, with his administration of strong leaders, people who understood the threat of radical Islam and how overridingly serious it was, people who were determined to protect this country and all it represents. We need that leadership now more than ever. We need a president who understands how long and difficult the work is, who will not be shortsighted, driven by momentary polls, and inclined to cut and run. Our self-proclaimed enemy doesn't think in terms of years, but in terms of decades and even centuries; we need leadership that will not falter in that long fight. That's the only way that we and other nations will have confidence in our government, and the only way we will be protected and secure. With that confidence, we will be able to go forward with hope and optimism, knowing that we are building a safer world for our children, a world in which they will have a deepened appreciation for our freedom and the ability to choose how they want to live. That way America will continue to be what it's always been: a beacon of liberty, of conscience, of determination, and of hope. So I have two words, above all others, for why I care so much about electing the strong leadership of George W. Bush this election: my children.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19168)	10/15/2004 8:44:59 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 27181

All you rightwingers do is lie all day long. What a bore.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (19168)	10/15/2004 8:53:24 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Elmer L. Andersen: Why this Republican ex-governor will be voting for Kerry ____________________________ Editorial By: Elmer L. Andersen The Minneapolis Star Tribune October 13, 2004 startribune.com Throughout my tenure and beyond as the 30th governor of this state, I have been steadfastly aligned -- and until recently, proudly so -- with the Minnesota Republican Party. It dismays me, therefore, to have to publicly disagree with the national Republican agenda and the national Republican candidate but, this year, I must. The two "Say No to Bush" signs in my yard say it all. The present Republican president has led us into an unjustified war -- based on misguided and blatantly false misrepresentations of the threat of weapons of mass destruction. The terror seat was Afghanistan. Iraq had no connection to these acts of terror and was not a serious threat to the United States, as this president claimed, and there was no relation, it's now obvious, to any serious weaponry. Although Saddam Hussein is a frightful tyrant, he posed no threat to the United States when we entered the war. George W. Bush's arrogant actions to jump into Iraq when he had no plan how to get out have alienated the United States from our most trusted allies and weakened us immeasurably around the world. Also, if there as well had been proper and careful coordination of services and intelligence on Sept. 11, 2001, that horrific disaster might also have been averted. But it was a separate event from this brutal mess of a war, and the disingenuous linking of the wholly unrelated situation in Iraq to 9/11 by this administration is not supported by the facts. Sen. John Kerry was correct when he said that seemingly it is only Bush and Dick Cheney who still believe their own spin. Both men spew outright untruths with evangelistic fervor. For Bush -- a man who chose to have his father help him duck service in the military during the Vietnam War -- to disparage and cast doubt on the medals Kerry won bravely and legitimately in the conflict of battle is a travesty. For Cheney to tell the hand-picked, like-minded Republican crowds in Des Moines last month that to vote for John Kerry could mean another attack like that of 9/11 is reprehensible. Moreover, such false statements encourage more terrorist attacks rather than prevent them. A far smaller transgression, but one typical of his stop-at-nothing tactics, was Cheney's assertion in last Wednesday's vice-presidential debate that he'd never met Sen. John Edwards until that night. The next day -- and the media must stay ever-vigilant at fact-checking the lies of this ticket -- news reports, to the contrary, showed four video clips of Edwards and Cheney sitting next to each other during the past five years. In both presidential debates, Kerry has shown himself to be of far superior intellect and character than Bush. He speaks honestly to the American people, his ethics are unimpeachable and, clearly, with 20 respected years in the Senate, he has far better credentials to lead the country than did Bush when he was elected four years ago. And a far greater depth of understanding of domestic and foreign affairs to do it now. Not that the sitting president has ever really been at the helm. I am more fearful for the state of this nation than I have ever been -- because this country is in the hands of an evil man: Dick Cheney. It is eminently clear that it is he who is running the country, not George W. Bush. Bush's phony posturing as cocksure leader of the free world -- symbolized by his victory symbol on the aircraft carrier and "mission accomplished" statement -- leave me speechless. The mission had barely been started, let alone finished, and 18 months later it still rages on. His ongoing "no-regrets," no-mistakes stance and untruths on the war -- as well as on the floundering economy and Bush administration joblessness -- also disappoint and worry me. Liberal Republicans of my era and mind-set used to have a humane and reasonable platform. We advocated the importance of higher education, health care for all, programs for children at risk, energy conservation and environmental protection. Today, Bush and Cheney give us clever public relations names for programs -- need I say "No Child Left Behind? -- but a lack of funding to support them. Early childhood education programs and overall health care are woefully underfunded. We have not only the largest number ever of medically uninsured in this nation, our infant mortality rates, once among the lowest in the world, have worsened to 27th. As taxes for the wealthy are being cut, jobs are being outsourced if not lost and children are homeless and uninsured, this administration is running up the biggest deficit in U.S. history -- bound to be a terrible burden for future generations. This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand. Although I am a longtime Republican, it is time to make a statement, and it is this: Vote for Kerry-Edwards, I implore you, on Nov. 2. __________________ Elmer L. Andersen was Minnesota's governor from 1961 to 1963.