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Post by B-J Forum Admin on Jul 16, 2004 9:28:34 GMT -5
Without question, the presidential election is the most significant vote we cast. Every four years we have the opportunity to change the leadership of our country which has a dramatic affect on our lives and world politics.
As citizens, it is our responsibility to participate in this process -- to educate ourselves on the candidates and vote for the person we believe can best lead our country during these times.
Most importantly is that we avoid contributing to the abundance of rhetoric offered up by the two major parties if we are to make the best possible choice.
With this in mind, we encourage you to share your comments/questions that will further our knowledge as we prepare ourselves to vote this coming November.
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Post by Independent on Jul 24, 2004 13:53:28 GMT -5
Both major political parties are defunct. They are no longer serving the best interest of our country.
Each are destroying the integrity of national politics with thier unsubstantiated accusation against each other making it darn near impossible for the average citizen to know fact from opinion.
They need to change dramatically -- or else, I'm voting for an independent. And, I don't buy that casting my this way is a waste. It is the only way a citizens can effectively demonstrate they want a change. I won't waste my vote to continue the rhetoric of the two major parties.
Our nation's political system is badly in need of change to open it up to citizens willing to serve but can not afford huge financial bill of running for office. That won't happened as long the current two major parties control legislation.
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Post by B-J Forum Admin on Sept 4, 2004 12:02:48 GMT -5
Former President Clinton will be having open heart by-pass surgery and will not be available to compaign on the road for John Kerry for at least a month or two.
This blow to Kerry's campaign comes at a time when he can little afford to lose the active support of the former popular president. The poles after the Republican Convention, unlike the stagnant results that followed the Democratic National Convention, have provided President Bush with a two digit jump.
While Democrats decry foul play on the part of those who spoke at the Republican convention, it's clear that voters a greater number of voters are feeling uncertain about Kerry. It is unfortunate that the Democratics used their convention to promote Kerry as a military hero of the Vietnam War. In doing so he has opened the subject up to debate that would have otherwise not gotten the national attention is now enjoys. As more people learn about his activist position after returning from service in Vietnam, many are questioning his motives.
He willfully and strongly reinterated the words of other veterans opposing the war who saw or did astrocities during their terms in Vietnam. In his own words he said such astrocities were caused by the U.S. government. When his words were mentioned they got the intended attention he desire then, but today they have come back to negatively haunt his ambitions of becoming President.
The Democrat response has been to volly attacks associated with the history of the Vietnam period. That Bush and Cheney, unlike Kerry, avoided the Vietnam conflict and have no right to question Kerry's record who did serve in the conflict. That argument may set well with some of the other veterans of Vietnam who oppose the war, but it have the opposite effect on many who like Busey and Cheney, didn't participate in the conflict.
It is hard to destroy a truth by attacking the accuser on matters that so many others have experienced. Kerry either needs to explain his position laying the whole truth out if he wants this monkey off his back. He needs to respect the simple fact voters are not willing to accept an eye for eye approach in answer to the question why he did what he did, and where his mind is today on the subject.
Voters should expect and demand that both parties and their candidates to rise above the rhetoric and stop the lying. We deserve a better than that if we are to make a wise choice. It is safer to know than one whose is the lesser of two evils. That is no way to lead a free country.
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