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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (150090)	10/31/2004 1:49:16 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"For a nation going to the polls in wartime, no issue matters more than character. Kerry has much to recommend him, and Bush's flaws are many." The war on terrorism is a myth because it is a political tool just as the war on poverty and the war on drugs are/were. There is more poverty and there are more drugs in the US today. Terrorism hasn't hit the US again but we have the little matter of OBL and his last pronouncements. As far as back bone goes, there are too many examples of US presidents about whom the same was said as you have about Kerry. They proved the sceptics wrong, Truman was one of them. More important is this quote: "George W. Bush is far from perfect. He refuses to admit mistakes. He resists constructive criticism. His humor can be petty or cutting. His administration is secretive and self-righteous -- traits that presumably start at the top." (You've omitted that he is a born again Christian. That alone is disqualifying simply because I am fundamentally opposed to fundamentalists. :) ) This is a very mild description of the Bush II administration and its leaders but it along with his fundamentalist religion is enough to disqualify Bush II IMO.