so in your eyes, instead of taking a small risk with an unknown like kerry, it's better to vote for someone you know for a fact starts wars based on lies and who has killed tens of thousands of people as a result, lets his personal religious beliefs guide foreign and domestic policy in direct violation of the constitution you republicans claim to worship, had increased domestic spending to record levels again in direct violation of every tenent that republicans have held for the last 100years (and that is even discounting military spending)...do i need to go on? i am so sick of hearing that at least bush believes in something!!! if i told you to get in a car with me so we could drive off a cliff together because god told me to do it and i believe that to be true you would have me commited and yet you willingly follow the coke sniffing drunk in the oval office...perhaps his brains have been fried by years of partying and he's hallucinating folks...time to wake up!
and oh yeah...lest i forget, he thinks you are a second class citizen not entitled to the same rights as him cause you like dick.
you'll have to forgive my delayed response. i forgot to subscribe to this thread and didn't check back. so, let's begin.
1. I dont think he started a war based on lies. Misinformation, yes. It's not like Bush, on his own, suddenly decided that there were WMDs. He has HUNDREDS, if not thousands, of people whose sole job it is to find out if there are WMDs. There are many, many steps along the way to declaring a war, so apparently there must have been a few people who agreed with him, on BOTH sides.
2. He didn't kill thousands of people, soldiers did. Democratic soldiers and Republican soldiers. Soldiers who, if they weren't prepared to die for their country, should not have enlisted.
3.Um, yeah, you must have skipped the part where i said i WASN'T a republican. I don't know "every tenent that republicans have held for the last 100years," and i don't particularly care. Also, you might have it a bit backwards here; Democrats are the ones who worship the constitution. Ya know, civil rights and all that jazz? As in, the reason why people aren't allowed to kill us for being gay (you know, like they can in other countries?). So yeah, I am a fan of the constitution, but I attribute that to my Democratic beliefs.
4. Most of this country thinks I am a second class citizen for being gay. It's just a fact of my life. Progress takes time. If you can't wait it out, go to another country.
5. It's not a "small risk" to vote for someone without defined beliefs. Without defined beliefs, they can be swayed by anyone to do anything. Kerry NEVER came out in support of homosexuality. Maybe he secretly hates it and wants it completely gone, and would then enact laws were he elected. At least we KNOW Bush isn't a fan. But we also know there is not much he is willing to do about it.
Finally, it's easy to talk shit without having to back it up. Yeah, Clinton was a good President overall, (my Favorite, actually, thus the support for Hillary Rodham Clinton) but he never had to face 9/11, or an economy in a slump. In fact, there is evidence that he did in fact receive information about possible al quaeda attacks and did nothing. So, maybe the dems taking over office will be an amazing turnaround. Or maybe, in 5 years, we will be having a similar discussion with the tables turned.
