Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry

ramoth4 writes "Local Crawford, TX (Bush's adopted hometown) paper The Lone Star Iconoclast has endorsed John Kerry for president. Kerry's home paper, the Boston Globe, hasn't come out with an endorsement yet. It's a very interesting editorial, especially in light of Bush's performance in the first debate."

Comments

Re:Doesn't matter.

[christopherfinke]

abortion's a Constitutional right

That's funny; I don't remember the right to kill being included with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

pulled the nation into a pointless misadventure of a war, wasting the lives of 1000+ American soldiers, billions of dollars and the US's credibility in the world community

Freed the people of Iraq from a brutal dictator, saving the lives of thousands upon thousands of Iraqis in the process, as well as captured 75% of the leadership of Al Qaeda.

has presided over a fantastic amount of job loss and failed to do anything about it except passing tax cuts targetted at the super-rich.

I still have a job in the tech sector, and that's all that matters to m. I also remember getting a nice chunk of change from Bush's tax cut, and I'm definitely lower-middle class.

lets his religious views drive his policies

Good. America is running out of people with morals and values.

Did you look at your own "data"?

[khasim]

Could it be that when you cut taxes the amount of money moving in economy increases and therefor the government income actually increases. And before you spout off how theres no evidence to support that please review the IRS Internal Revenue Gross Collections, by Type of Tax, Fiscal Years 1973-2003 which clearly shows that government income doubled in during the 80's and the Reagan Tax cuts.

Now look at the numbers from 1999 on.

1999 - 2000 = growth

Bush comes into office
2000 - 2001 = decline

2001-2002 = decline

2002-2003 = decline

So by your "data", the government income DECREASED when Bush cut taxes. How is that possible when you say that cutting taxes INCREASES the government's income?

Maybe the situation is not as simplistic as you portray?

Re:Doesn't matter.

[Shakrai]

that the risk to our soldiers lives was far too great given our alternative options. I'd love to see you make better calls IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR.

What? The job would have been "risky"? Are you seriously telling me we didn't deploy our troops to capture Osama Bin Ladin because it would have been risky? Isn't this coming from the same group of people that called Clinton (in so many words) a chickenshit because all he would do is lob cruise missiles at the guy? Will we wait until we can take out OBL with a hellfire missile because we are afraid of getting dirty?

You are talking about a group that killed over three thousand American citizens. What would have better? Losing a few hundred American troops while killing the leadership of Al Quada in one decisive battle or losing a thousand American troops in the quagmire that Iraq has become? Of course mind you that even having that many KIAs at Tora Bora was highly unlikely even given the terrain advantages in favor of the enemy. I'd put our Army up against Al Quada scum any day of the week -- it might have been bloody but we would have prevailed. Do you think American troops would have left the back door open and showed Al Quada operatives (and leadership) which escape routes to use into Pakistan?

The end point to all of this is that we tried to do Afghanistan on the cheap -- we had ample reason to go after those bastards with everything we could muster. Instead you had officials in the administration that wanted to bomb and/or invade Iraq after 9/11 because "there aren't enough good targets in Afghanistan".

Re:Doesn't matter.

[Shakrai]

You sir are a dip shit

Way to elevate the tone of the debate. Why don't you wait until we are both elected Senators and then tell me to "go fuck myself" on the floor of the United States Senate? I sleep so well at night knowing that somebody with that short of a fuse has nuclear launch codes and is one bullet away from having the authority to use them.

Again, why not complain about any of the THOUSANDS of REAL problems instead of making up FAKE ones?

A fake problem? Osama Bin Ladin still being a free man is a "fake problem"? Ok then -- let's talk about the real problems:

• The 1.71 billion dollar per day Federal deficit is a problem.
• The situation in Iraq is a problem.
• North Korea having WMDs is a problem.
• An Iran working to build nukes is a problem.
• The fact that the entire World hates our guts (oh -- except for Israel I suppose) is a problem.

I could keep going on and on. The fact remains that most of these things happened on Bush's watch. In 50 years we've gone from "The Buck stops here" to "It's all Clinton's fault" or "No comment" is telling.

Remind me again why I should vote to reelect Bush? Try to come back with a better reason then "Kerry is a flipflopper" or "We can't change Presidents in the middle of a war".