The debates and the recent news about no WMD or Iraqi ties to al-Qaeda are going to hurt Bush badly. I have only looked at a few polls of who won the debate and they all have Kerry winning by various margins, very small to a 64% to 33% victory for Kerry. The bit about abortion was good. Kerry's speech at the DNC had a similar message
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This is our time to reject the kind of politics calculated to divide race from race, group from group, region from region. Maybe some just see us divided INTO phpbb_red states and blue states, but I see us as one America – red, white, and blue. And when I am President, the government I lead will enlist people of talent, Republicans as well as Democrats, to find the common ground – so that no one who has something to contribute will be left on the sidelines.
And let me say it plainly: in that cause, and in this campaign, we welcome people of faith. America is not us and them. I think of what Ron Reagan said of his father a few weeks ago, and I want to say this to you tonight: I don't wear my own faith on my sleeve. But faith has given me values and hope to live by, from Vietnam to this day, from Sunday to Sunday. I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. And whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
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It is all a beautiful dream. The idea of a smaller government is a beautiful dream too, but I doubt any politician when they say they are going to cut the fat from the bureaucracy. Then again, it might be a sincere aim and not just campaign speak.
Bush's simplicity might work more to his favor than his detriment. To those who hate him, he is a hopeless moron. To those who don't, he seems more like a regular person than Kerry. This is a link to another forum where you can see the difference in perception
Bush is rich, born in New England, and has a similar education to Kerry's, but he avoids the upper-crust of the northeast, speaks with a somewhat Southern accent, and even once owned his own baseball team. Kerry just seems to represent the standard stereotype of the upper-class, who in spite of their affluence seem always to fret for the cause of the working man and the poor. Kennedy did it, LBJ did it, and so did Clinton. As I said, it is a beautiful dream, but it always seems so artificial.
I was going to support Badnarik, but I might swing to Kerry now. I do not trust him and I would prefer to hear promises of bringing all troops home, ending foreign aid, and basically ending any foreign policy that involves intervening anywhere than words about renewed alliances, but it may be time for a change. I do not know if Bush really believed there were terrorist ties or anthrax, rather it was just a ploy for oil, or whatever, but the fact of the matter remains that thousands of people are dead and the only cause that can be given for it is that Saddam was bad and the oil-for-food program played a part in corruption on the council. I would rather just have let Saddam stay and withdrew from the UN on the condition that Japan got to take our permanent place in the security council.