An interesting Op-ed piece for your dimissal

> Vote For A Man, Not A Puppet
by Charley Reese, the Orlando Sentinel

Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's
re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war: Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of
neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers. I have sadly
come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a front man, an
empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his administration. Bush
has the most dangerously simplistic view of the world of any president
in my memory.

It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the plague.
Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans should be
embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke more fluently
and articulately in English than our own president at their joint
press
conference recently. John Kerry is at least an educated man,
well-read,who knows how to think and who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than Bush's comic-book world of American heroes and foreign evildoers. It's unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very intelligence and refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom
his presidential election efforts. But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as
he did so often, when he observed that people who expect to be ignorant
and free expect what never was and never will be.

People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display
their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush.
Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled
me once, but he won't fool me twice. It is not at all conservative to
balloon government spending, to vastly increase the power of
government, to show contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits don't matter, and that people should
not know what their government is doing.

Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the most secretive president in
20th century. His administration leans dangerously toward the
authoritarian. It's no wonder that the Justice Department has
convicted a few Arab-Americans of supporting terrorism. What would you do if youfound yourself arrested and a federal prosecutor whispers in your ear that either you can plea-bargain this or the president will designate
you an enemy combatant and you'll be held incommunicado for the
duration?

This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but
because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's
almost restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race.
America is not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends
anywhere in the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the
Bush administration. Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans found
USA, Israel, North Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to world peace.
I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a
man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world and us
with it. Go to Kerry's Web site (www.johnkerry.com <http://www.johnkerry.com> ) and read some of
the magazine profiles on him. You'll find that there is a great deal
more to Kerry than the GOP attack dogs would have you believe.
Besides,it would be fun to have a president who plays hockey, windsurfs, ride motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and speaks French. It
would be good to have a man in the White House who has killed people face to face. Killing people seems to have a sobering effect on a man and dispels all illusions about war.

[NRAJOE]

Yup dismissed it after the first paragraph...why don't you join Democratic Underground (or DUNG as we freedom loving, guntoting real Americans call it)...you would have a friend there at least....

Joe, I thought you were my friend.

[NRAJOE]

Just a slight sentimental feeling because you once hailed from Toledo...thats starting to quickly go away though....

[colt45]

read it all the way through, sounds like a big kerry indorsment.
if i didn't know better you could have sworn it was writen in france.

[Rave]

Clinton is an educated man,rhodes scholar and all that,but in our humble opinion he is nothing more than a pig!
A good education does not always make a good,as the old saying goes,"You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear." :nod:

NRA Joe, you have broken my heart into tiny little bits and used it as Walleye bait!

My best friend from Toledo is flying in today from London. He will then continue his journey to the homeland to be avalible for his mother who is currently on a nasty strech of Chemotherapy.

I like you, NRA Joe even though you support commie firearms.

[NRAJOE]

I support all firearms...should of had your friend bring you some Packo's Hunky dogs...I think those would cure you.....

[Sniper[MI]]

I printed it out and wiped my a ss with it! I bet the author of that "objective" piece would get on his knees and nay like a goat if Kerry asked him to.

[NRAJOE]

Ah, Sniper...straight to the point as always.... :right:

Bray like a goat! Don't knock it until you try it.

Packos.....mmmm...Packos. Those things cure everything. I have a jug of their pickles from my last visit.

[PAPA G]

Originally Posted by NRAJOE

I support all firearms...should of had your friend bring you some Packo's Hunky dogs...I think those would cure you.....

that some gang banger bunch from the "hood???

[NRAJOE]

It was a beautiful Hungarian neighborhood until the "Public housing complex" went in two blocks down....

Poor people ruin everything.

[NRAJOE]

They choose to be that way...collect welfare/stamps...but got da bling bling for them big fancy rims on dey rides...selling the dope.

[PAPA G]

yeah, Camden NJ used to be a wonderful place, Polish, Irish, Italian, German, Hungarian, and others. a safe place day or night. now its a welfare haven, dope crime, gangs. the current residents, have let the houses run down/trashed them, then complain about it. many abandon houses, because the previous owners couldn't get a buyer( would you).

[BattleRifleG3]

Oh my, I've heard of Camden. (shudder)

The left calling Bush a puppet is on the same level as accusing Bush of reopening Iraq's torture chambers because a few jackarse soldiers gave the Iraqi prisoners a few treatments resembling frat initiations or jock bullying.

[Stopper]

Kerry is the last piece of shutzpah that should be president. What a waste of skin.
Bush is only slightly better, but better still.

Now Ron Paul is a man that could do alot better than any of the others!!! (had to throw that in!)