I think you need to watch what clothes you were wearing in the spring and this past fall...were you any different? I bet you were. People are allowed to change their minds, they should be allowed to admit to their wrongs and to their faults. Kerry does that. He isn't a "flip-flopper". On the other hand, Bush will never admit he was ever even voted into presidency (rather he stole it with help from his conveniently placed brother, Jeb and good old dad). He will never admit he said one thing and went after another in the war in Iraq. He will never state why he actually decided to give large income dwellers a tax cut when we have the largest amount of deficit ever! He will never admit that he still needs all of his words hand fed to him on a golden spoon because he can't think of any word over 2 syllables by himself. He will never tell you why we are losing jobs at a rate equal to the population increase. (which means that any new people coming into the workplace will not find any jobs) He'll say he created 1.6 million jobs, but we need at least 1.7 million just to keep up with the population. He'll never admit that he's going to change any of the policies that are obviously not working because he sees nothing wrong with them.
I still don't understand how half the world doesn't see that Bush is the obviously loser among the two. We don't know how Kerry will act as president; this is a fact. But I can guarantee it can't be worse than what Bush has already done. We know how Bush has acted under the undeserved title of the "President of the United States of America". I am ashamed to be an American, right now. I am utterly embarrassed to live in the USA with Bush, the village idiot, as our "trusted" leader. I hope people realize that this election is our high point and everyone should attempt to make it to the voting booths.
Wearing nothing but pride,
Dan Myers
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On 22 Oct, 2004, at 14:29, Brian Siano wrote:
Driving home, I rip off my Bush-Cheney shirt so I can walk the streets of my neighborhood unjeered at and without terrifying little children. Reflecting on the sting of being called "asshole" during my travels through Blue America, I wonder: If I were truly a Bush supporter, how long would I be able to endure a life filled with epithets before I gave up on the shirt? Changing into a nonpartisan brown Gap polo, I breathe a sigh of relief that I will never have to find out.
Richard Rushfield is a Los Angeles based journalist. He edits the LA Innuendo, a satirical review of local culture and co-authors the "Intelligence Report" for Vanity Fair.
Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2108561/
The article is quite informative and only goes to support what many Politically Incorrect have pointed out -- the hate, animosity and lack of civility in this election comes from Terry McAuliffe / Howard Dean side of the fence.
If you want an interesting comparison of the Candidates, examine John Kerry the candidate in the Spring and compare him to John Kerry the candidate in the Fall... very different people, very different positions. You can see a clear change in the Candidate pre and post Convention. It truly makes one wonder what John Kerry really stands for.
One is forced to wonder what a post-victory Kerry Administration will be like?
Will Kerry still wear his Camo and tote his shotgun or will he seek to register gun owners and ban saturday night specials?
Once Kerry gets government to pay for health insurance, will he ever do anything to control the actual cost of health care? [Government health insurance is simply a blank check for the health care industry. They will be able to charge whatever they want because "insurance" will pay for anything.] Or will he actually control the real costs by nationalizing the health care industry and pay doctors, nurses and others a flat government salary?
If you make less than $100,000 a year, Kerry will cut your taxes -- but if you make more than $100,000 a year he will increase them ... or will he? He wants to return "the Clinton Surplus" AND dramatically increase government spending; the money has to come from somewhere, and there aren't enough billionaires around anymore since the Clinton bubble burst?
Kerry is going to eliminate "outsourcing," and replace them with "good paying" American jobs. Consider the "unintended consequences":
If you consider that an Indian IT worker gets paid (much) less than $5,000 per year, (the average annual income for an Indian is $450 according to this week's Economist) and you replace them with a US worker being paid the $75,000 - $100,000 they were paid in the US, how much will prices rise?
What's that going to do to Walmart -- the largest employer in the United States (as well as in Pennsylvania)? 80% of the goods sold at Walmart are imported, mostly from China. Similar numbers apply to manufacturing wages between China and the US. If Walmart starts "buying American" how much will their prices increase? 50% 100%?
If prices increase that much that rapidly, what's the inflation rate going to be? 10%, 20%? higher? What's that going to do to the "housing bubble" everyone is yamming about? What happens to the Mortgage market when the Fed increases interest rates to 4% or 5% let alone higher attempting to subdue the rapid rise in inflation.
Kerry plans to have a 10 year energy development program. Does that mean that, like France, we will have 90% of our electricity generated by Nuclear power plants in 10 years? Starting on January 21st that is the only technology available capable of generating equivalent amounts electrical power to replace existing coal, oil and natural gas fired generating plants within 10 years. [Completely ignoring cost issues here] Photovoltaic technology is, in the laboratory, less than 20% efficient, but only about 15% efficient in products which can be manufactured outside the laboratory. Wind power? Then you have the problem which Massachusetts and Connecticut have today -- instead of oil wells polluting their costal views, they are fighting windmill farms -- and no one believes there is any possibility of generating sufficient and reliable amounts of wind generated electricity with today's technology.
And we won't even bring up the question of who will pay the bills or provide the goods and services after the Class Action law suits put all the evil corporations out of business.
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