Soapbox For a while, I haven't felt like posting. It was…

Friday, July 30, 2004

Soapbox

For a while, I haven't felt like posting.   It was a weird phase, one that I hope is behind me, in which I didn't really feel like sharing anything I was feeling with anyone. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know that doesn't happen very often.

<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com" target="_new">John Kerry for President</a>

I would like to make it clear at this point in time who I support for president.   George W. Bush has failed the American people and world, and as humiliating is it is that our electoral system permitted him to become president once, it would be a travesty and an embarrassment to my country for him to be brought back for a second term.   I think that the best way to support out troops is to give them a Commander in Chief that actually knows something about war. I would like our ecomonic policy to be a pay-as-you-go system, not a test of the limits of our credit rating.   I would like our country to work in harmony with other countries, and fight against known atrocities, not made up ones. I am willing to pay more for things that are made in in this country, and I am willing to pay more taxes if it means that teachers, police, firefighters, and the military are paid what they deserve and the Social Security system stays intact. I want good, affordable healthcare available for everyone.   I want a healthy natural environment for generations to come.

I believe that children should be encouraged to love and respect their parents, including homosexual parents, and that that we should facilitate that end by allowing homosexuals to marry and have the same rights that heterosexually parented families enjoy. I believe women should have the legal rights as men, and that all people should have the right to decide what is going to happen to their bodies.   (i.e. reproductive choice, the right to decline medical interference)

John Kerry has been accused of being wishy-washy, but I believe it is because does not support the idea that the end justifies the means. There are good ideas being supported by bad legislation, and vice versa, and I believe John Kerry looks at the big picture, and not just the politically charged fragments.    He takes his responsibility to the people very seriously.   He always has, even if his ideas about how to do it have evolved over time.

I normally don't get more involved in politics than voting, but this time I feel I must.  The outcome matters too much.
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I'm with you all the way. (And, by the way, welcome back.)
- 7/30/2004 11:24 AM
- RipariusCaninus (message)
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*applauds!*
- 7/30/2004 12:27 PM
- renaissancegirl4 (message)
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Welcome back! I agree that Bush should not be re-elected. I'm just curious what Gore would have done if he had become President. Probably not have a list of U.S. soldiers killed in this silly Iraq war.
- 7/30/2004 12:38 PM
- Trax (message)
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It amazes me how people come to the conclusions they draw. It also amazes me how easily people are propagandized and how they will believe almost anything in order to be right. It amazes me that we will lean on our beliefs rather than see what is real and act on that.

Thank God that politics are for the masses who have nothing better to do than soak up its drivel.

Steve
- 7/31/2004 2:31 AM
- Rajah (message)
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HERE HERE!
- 8/2/2004 12:53 PM
- Prometheus (message)
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I hope there are more Americans thinking like you do as the outcome involves not only the USA but the world, and the rest of the wolrd is really counting on lire Americans to open their eyes and look at what is happening outside their window.
- 8/3/2004 4:45 AM
- Pekebxl (message)
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