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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (149259)	10/27/2004 10:53:08 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Endorsements: Kerry, because he isn't Bush ________________________________________ [Endorsement from Green Bay paper] Tom Brooker, News-Chronicle editor Editorial The amazing thing about the reign of George W. Bush is that nearly half the populace wants him to return for another four years. With apologies to Abraham Lincoln, it seems you can fool half of the people all of the time. Truly, the Bush II presidency has been nothing short of disastrous. Real conservatives are fuming over the staggering debt this administration is piling up with no letup in sight. Bush has bumbled again and again on issues of foreign policy, taking us to war in Iraq under false pretenses and then botching the recovery process so badly that nobody seems to know how or when we will be able to get out. Under George W. Bush, polluters have been given a virtual free ride (not coincidentally, his first EPA secretary resigned), affordable health care is less affordable to fewer people (and for millions not at all), Social Security trudges on toward insolvency, decent-paying jobs are vanishing and the breakthrough promise of embryonic stem-cell research has been stymied. Instead of addressing issues that sweep across the heartland of the nation - tax equity, health care, retirement security, energy dependence, job creation - this president has spent the bulk of his effort giving handouts to megacorporations and pandering to the radical right and its foul brew of gay-bashing, guns and God. This is a man who has held the least amount of news conferences of any president since the dawn of television. This is a man who fought to the highest court in the land to keep secret the nefarious, closed-door meetings on the nation's energy policy. This is a man who tried to stop the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Twin Towers tragedy and its backdrop. And, worst of all, this is a president who has taken responsibility for nothing that has gone wrong on his watch, not the torture at Abu Ghraib, not the falsehood of nuclear weapons in Iraq, not the beatings and denial of legal rights at Guantanamo, none of it. George Bush, however, is not the Prince of Darkness. He deserves credit for the nuclear disarmament of Libya, for gains made in Afghanistan, for providing a firm hand during the 9-11 crisis. And no president, regardless of party or policy, could have averted the economic tumble caused by the dot-com collapse and the fall of the World Trade Center. No, Bush is not, in his own words, an "evil-doer." But he had the opportunity to be a beacon of hope for a besieged nation and instead turned out to be simply a dim bulb. Why this has not been enunciated more clearly and passionately by Bush's chief opponent, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, is a mystery. Perhaps he has more class and that's just not his style; perhaps he feels his actions speak more eloquently. Indeed, Kerry has spent most of his Senate career as a low-profile, behind-the-scenes guy. His most notable efforts have been the investigation and resolution of MIA identities in Vietnam and Cambodia, and he led the probes that unearthed the labyrinthine corruption posed by the BCCI and Iran-Contra scandals. Granted, that's a relatively thin resume for the presidency - but it's far more than what the current holder of the office brought with him four years ago. Bush and his government of big business, by big business and for big business need to go. Kerry proposes sound government where it's needed, when it's needed. It's needed here, and it's needed now. greenbaynewschron.com