To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (84573 ) 12/18/2006 10:27:37 PM From: American Spirit Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 173976 Kerry was a true war hero, is a brilliant man with intelligence and knowledge off the charts, did not grow up with money, does not own any mansions, and is for raising the taxes on the rich. So despite having wealthy wife he is a populist on the side of workingclass Amreicans. Always has been, always will be. He not an elitist and doesn't give a crap for the interests of the super rich. He grew up without money and he remembers where he came from. Furthermore, he believes in a strong middleclass protected by our government, not attacked by it a la Bushies. He was a major Silver Star winning combat hero, then helped end the war saving a lot of US lives. He took on Nixon directly and beat him. Talk about a David and Goliath story. As a senator he took on and defeated the Medellin Cartel, the BCCI Bank, Iran-Contra criminals, Noriega and previously the Irish mob in Boston. He has tirelessly fought for veterans rights. He has also never taken a dishonest dollar and never sold a vote. He is incorrupible. No one can buy him and he is in no one's pocket.With McCain he normalized relations with Vietnam and wrote the CAFE standards bill which would have saved us billions of gallons of gasoline. The corrupt Bushies ganged up and stopped it. That hurt our auto industry enormously and put hundreds of thosuands of Americans out of work. Kerry started Earth Day with a few others. He was ahead of Gore on those issues, but now they agree. He led the fight to stop drilling in ANWAR. He has promised to take on big oil, the trillionaire empire which thinks it owns our government, can gouge consumers any time they want and is above all our laws. Kerry alone can do this for us. He is the David vs. their Goliath. With our help. Kerry fought back and won the nomination despite being 30% behind and dismissed by the press in 2004. Kerry was also right on 100% of the issues in 2004 and defeated Bush in all three debates. The only way Bush could beat Kerry was by lying, cheating and concocting a smear campaign to besmirch Kerry's character and sterling combat record which was made up of 100% lies and deliberate fabrications. Even McCain called is "dishonest and dishonorable" and the Washington Times has cleared Kerry's name as having gone beyond the call of duty without a single blemish of any kind on his military record. Kerry will soon be running for president again, and if we are lucky enough for him to be elected, we will have one of the finest presidents in US history, a very honest, strong, courageous, wise and fair leader. What more could we ask for?