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Dems Open Bar-No Repukes welcome
| Tue, 08-31-2004 - 2:41pm |
Was with a bit of amusement that I saw the Republicans in here has a thread that we are supposed to stay out of (see Republican Treehouse)....guess they feel a need to have secret meetings, and might even have a secret handshake to get through the door, so thought those of us on the side of reason and intellect should have our own little hide-away as it were. So, kick your shoes off, pour yourself a drink and lets discuss the issues.

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This column eloquently explains my frustration with Kerry (and there is no doubt I will vote for him, but I fear he will lose).
Mr. Kerry, you are NO John McCain.
If he is elected for another 4 years the rest of the world will look upon the American voting public as a bunch of blind sheep who don't CARE that tens of thousands of people have been killed and many more injured. All of these on false pretenses using what is now known as faulty intelligence (and it's not as if any red flags about the accuracy of this intelligence wasn't known BEFORE the war either) and the American people condone this. As if killing and maiming that many people who had nothing to do with attacking America somehow makes up for 9/11. Right now many are saying "It's not the American people we hate....it's the administration." Well I can tell you that might quickly shift if this Yahoo is re-elected.
At the beginning of the campaign I was quite optimisitc that Kerry who strikes me as a thoughtful intelligent, educated and caring man might stand a chance. However of late both he and his fellow Democrats have left me feeling powerless and disillusioned.
What Kerry has to do is address these claims (flip flops) that the Republicans are repeating ad nauseum one at a time....explaining them putting them to rest. Then he has to outline his plan. He says he HAS a plan but he has never come out and explained it fully. Is he afraid to show his cards? Well if that is the case he is going to miss his chance to bid and be out of the game completely. The more time that goes by and the more often these out of context insults of his character by the Republicans are repeated, the less likely it is that he will be able to rise above them. He's got to be honest and get to the point and SOON. Hopefully before the debates because if he does not he will be spending all his time defending himself (isn't that what the incumbant is supposed to do?).
The one thing I have to disagree with in the article is the claim that Kerry is a poor speaker. I actually find him interesting and eloquent. He certainly is heads and shoulders above Bush. I discussed the speech he made at the Dem convention with my sister in law who lives in Berkley telling her that I thought it was excellent. She said that it did not play that way in the States and Canadians admire different things in their leaders than Americans do. Kerry appeals to the intellect, Bush to the heart and gut. Only when I hear Bush speak my guts turn inside out and my heart constricts in my chest. A person who expresses himself like Bush would NEVER EVER get elected in Canada...EVER.
I posted this here because I thought it was a place to discuss serious things amongst fellow Democrats without smart alec retorts.
Mr. Kerry, you are NO John McCain."
Well, see that's where you're wrong. Kerry has had his military record smeared by George Bush, the same way Bush smeared John McCain in South Carolina in 2000.
George Bush is a very good example of the depths that the Republican Party has sunk to. There was a lot of talk a couple of months ago about whether Bush was the heir to Ronald Reagan. Let me ask you this.
Could you see Ronald Reagan stooping to smearing his opponent's military record? Or John McCain stooping to those depths for that matter?
Of course, what's the alternative? To try to defend.....
* A war built on a pack of lies that has killed 1,000 Americans, 15,000 Iraqis, and maimed 6700 Americans.
* The poverty rate has been increasing 3 straight years now.
* The Stock Market is down over 1,000 points.
* Joblessness continues to increase, there haven't been more than a half a dozen months where the economy has added more than the 130,000 jobs needed just to stay even.
* The number of terrorist incidents world wide have been increasing yearly.
* Bin Laden, the man who attacked this country and killed over 3,000 Americans, is still on the loose 3 years later.
*North Korea, and especially Iran (the country that let the 9/11 hijackers pass through from Afghanistan without passports) are working furiously to go nuclear as protection from us. We have the lies of Iraq being nuclear now butting up against the reality of Iran being nuclear, with there being little we can do about because we are bogged down in Vietraq. An Iran that has boasted of their ability to hit Israel with their missles.
And as, this thread so amply illustrates, it was started as an invitation to discuss the issues and all that the poster before me can manage is to whine "but Kerry". They are totally unable to defend the past 4 years, but want 4 more years of it.
Lincoln must be spinning in his grave.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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