nathan do you know who writes this stuff you've quoted below? and why?
talk is cheap. campaign "promises" are made to be broken. is anyone listening to kerry? do you actually believe this lesser of two evils, as you've described him, means any of what people put into his mouth?
you support kerry because he's a democrat and that's all. it's a shame you waste your intelligence on this. what in heaven's name do you believe kerry will be able to do with the system we have in washington, dc?
he's going to wave a magic wand and we'll have "healthcare for all americans" -- which you can be certain if we get it then it will be substandard and a stop gap at best; probably throw money at HMOs -- "schools that work" -- this is too ridiculous to comment on unless kerry plans to triple teacher salaries at the least -- "jobs that pay more money" -- where is kerry going to get these, from his MNC supporters? -- "social security that's there for the future" -- one wonders how long it will take "president" kerry to raid the SS fund for some excuse or another. "a new direction" -- how can tired political hacks locked into a money driven system, outnumbered by right wing politicians and media and money, bring us "a new direction"? all cliches and emotional buzz words.
of course shrub lies. he's lied all his life. his supporters lie. every right wing talk show is nothing but lies. when the shrub group is confronted with their lies, they simply lie more.
and yet this lesser of two evils, kerry, is neck and neck in the polls, at best, with a liar and a simpleton who's outsmarted his campaign at almost every turn, who's keeping kerry on the defensive regularly, who's pinning every incompetent epithet, like "waffling" on him.
are you still sitting on your rear trying to decide whether he'll win the election by a wide margin or a few votes? if he gets lucky and wins, it may easy the worst depredations of the shrub group. but it certainly will not be vicarious redemption for the USA.
it will be a dismal experience of watching kerry abandon all the rhetoric you are tying to impress us with. four more years of political senescence as the democrats go back to sleep.
R
>http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0906.html
>"Do we want four more years of lost jobs and falling wages . four more
>years of rising health care costs . four more years of raiding Social
>Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy . four more years of schools being
>shortchanged, leaving millions of children behind . four more years of
>shipping jobs overseas and replacing them with jobs that pay you less .four
>more years of a go-it-alone foreign policy. If you do, then you should vote
>for George W. Bush.
>
>But if you want health care for all Americans. If you want schools that
>work. If you want jobs that pay you more money. If you want Social Security
>that's there for the future. Then we need to move America in a new
>direction and that's the choice in this election."
>
>http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0902.html
>"Let me tell you what I think makes someone unfit for duty. Misleading our
>nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead this nation. Doing nothing
>while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this
>nation. Letting 45 million Americans go without healthcare makes you unfit
>to lead this nation. Letting the Saudi Royal Family control our energy
>costs makes you unfit. Handing out billions of government contracts to
>Halliburton while you're still on their payroll makes you unfit. That's the
>record of George Bush and Dick Cheney. . .
>
>He's misled America's workers - he told them his economic plan would create
>6 million jobs. The truth is we've lost nearly 1.8 million since George
>Bush took office. He said his plan would create 266,000 jobs in Ohio.
>Instead Ohio has lost 230,000 jobs since he took office -- 112,000 jobs
>since the recession ended in November of 2001."
>
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