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Impeach George Bush
How to Throw An Election
The Democrats have managed to avoid being seen or heard from for two years now. Now Leiberman and Kerry lead the pack.
Source: TheTip, 2003-04-16
Candidate: Democratic Party
If you're like most liberals, the Democrats are making you sick. They're weak-kneed bowing to the conservative agenda time and time again makes you realize that there is somethign heroic in the Liberal Agenda - the notion that the Government should be For the People and By the People.
I'm not a Liberal. But the Democrats are making me sick too. I mean with a Multi-Billion-Dollar campaign budget (much of it directly from tax payers) you'd think they'd at least TRY to put up an alternative to the Bush and Co. corporate corruption and war-mongering team.
Instead, we have Lieberman and Kerry.Lieberman is identical with Bush, the same big business interests, the same hawkish foreign policy, with the exception that he likes high taxes. It's not clear that Bush doesn't like high taxes with his 1.7 Trillion Dollar debt, but it's clear the Lieberman does.
And Kerry, well, he talks a good peace game occasionally, but he did after all, vote to have the decision to go to war fall to the President, betraying our constitution which says very explicitly that that responsibility falls to the congress.
And in the end, he's a Bonesman, a political insider and member of the Washington Elite. But, he's from the soft side. Backed by the Kennedy's instead of the McCain's, he's pro labor, focused on domestic well-being and social programs.
He's a globalizer, of course, who isn't in the inner circle. He supports ongoing taxation and is helping the world to build a leveraged government not accountable to any people.
But, he's better than Leiberman or Bush in the short term. And since the Greens and Libertarians aren't managing to put up a significant fight, it's Kerry.Of course, from a political OUTSIDER like TheTip, choosing a candidate may be a kiss of death. Well, I hope not.
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User Originated Comments:
From: Bush is a Nazi
1999-11-30 00:00:00
(you misspelled "something" in the first
paragraph)
oh, and i wonder how you can
say kerry is better than bush or leiberman (who
both wont get my vote) when he is also a part of
the washington elite. they should all be called
the washington deceit.
also its not
very fair to say the greens and libertarians
aren't trying to make a statement. i know for a
fact they are, but big brother likes to throw many
of them in jail because of their p-ssion to help
make changes for our country.oh yeah and they
don't wear suits and ties and listen to good
music. in short where are all the candidates who
stand up for changing our already corrupt system
and stop preaching to the choir about another
useless reform plan? (remember bushes reform plans
before he was elected?-enough said)
From: steve-o
1999-11-30 00:00:00
i was pragmatically pushing for "safe & center"
leiberman, then howard dean said something that
stuck with me. to paraphrase: the democratic
strategy of campaigning to the center hasn't
worked in the past two elections (00 & 02). you
alienate your core (then they don't vote or go for
nader) & many undecideds you're trying to sway see
right through it - and are turned off by it.
people react to a strong leader - even if they
don't necessarily agree with everything they're
saying: polls showed that before the iraq war,
70% disagreed with what bush's policy, but
simultaneously, they still approved of him as a
leader. bush may be taking us on the wrong road,
but he is definately taking us down a road.
that's why he's so appealing to many people as a
leader. which democratic candidates are doing
this now, and which ones are pandering to the
center or just blowin' with the wind?
From: Linda
1999-11-30 00:00:00
so, move-on conducted a straw poll online and the
runaway winner was howard dean (43+%). kucinich
ran a distant second and kerry, third, the only
other candidate to be in the double
digits.
if you've been following the
democratic presidential hopefuls debates, you'll
know that dean, kucinich and sharpton are the
anti-war candidates. and once again, the pundits
are screaming at the top of their collective lungs
that an anti-war candidate can't
win.
well, they may be right. i still
have my mcgovern t-shirt somewhere! but at least
these guys are a contrast to the war-mongering
so-called mainstream.
wouldn't you like
to see, just once, the right guy win?
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