Your best days are behind you...
Posted on 08/16/2004 8:16:34 AM PDT by BUSHhaterface
George W. Bush speaks for values. He speaks for family fidelity, personal responsibility, patriotism and spiritual devotion.
John Kerry embodies values. He's faithful to his wife and loyal to his family. Would Kerry embrace Harry Truman's "The Buck Stops Here"? Yes, he accepts personal responsibility. Does Bush? Not entirely, remember Abu Graib and his resistence to set up a 9/11 Commission to find out the truth. His administration gave Congress a cost figure for Medicare prescription drugs which was 145 billion dollars lower than the real cost. He wanted the political credit for Medicare prescription drugs so badly that he forced an underling to lie in order to get fiscal conservatives from his own party on board.
What about patriotism? As a young man in the reserves during the Viet Nam War, George W. Bush chose to serve in the states by checking the box "home." John Kerry, like Bush's own father, put himself in harms way overseas. Moreover, unlike the "no-bid" government contracts and offshore tax shelters of many of Bush and Cheney's biggest corporate donors, Kerry and Edward's army of middle and small donors shoulder their fair share of the federal taxes owed to the government. Paying the taxes one owes is a sure sign of real patriotism.
The contradiction at the heart of Bush's New Republicanism is a hatred of government and love of country. What democrats recognize in their bones is that to love the country requires loving our fellow citizens or neighbors as ourselves by using the government to speak for the little guy.
How about the GOP? Republicans think they can love their neighbors by first loving themselves. "Cut my taxes. I'll invest in companies who will increase efficiency in producing goods and services. This will create new jobs."
Unhappily, increasing supply does not stimulate demand. It's the other way around; demand increases supply, when the demand is greater than the supply. It is Kerry's policies alone which will stimulate demand and so stimulate the production of new jobs, not the outsourcing of them.
Both John Kerry and George W. Bush have a robust spiritual life. Each is guided by their faith when addressing the great issues confronting the nation. Does this mean that their religious convictions put them on the same side of the policy disputes in the political arena? Certainly not. Good people, indeed, really good and caring people can come out on different sides of moral and religious issues. Of course, this, after all, was the truth which James Madison gave voice to in the first amendment to our constitution. Government may not use its police powers to deny either Kerry or Bush their right to worship as they choose. Further, neither are entitled to tap into the resources of government to advance their own particular religion. This means within our system of democracy and rights, neither Kerry, nor Bush, neither Democrats, nor Republicans can claim that God is exclusively on their side. What Madison did was to see that The Almighty could underwrite the constitutional foundations of our freedom to worship based on His gift of free will. We may choose to worship as we please or choose not to worship, as we wish.
The one moral value which neither Bush, nor Cheney clearly exhibit is honesty. Bush refuses to put the cost of the Iraq war into his 04/05 budget for all of us to see. Cheney refused to tell us what corporations were present at the Energy Task Force laying out the nation's energy policy for the rest of us. Yet, the people have a basic right to expect their leaders to be honest above all other values they claim. I conclude that Bush and the Republicans not only do they not have a lock on ?values,? but that John Kerry is really head and shoulders above Bush in patriotism and honesty. I believe we all have a right to vote and support that candidate who best puts into practice those values which he professes.
Wow! Did you make this up all by yourself? Did your mom proof-read it for you before you posted?
Which wife is Kerry faithful to?
Are liberals really this dumb? I could spend the entire day deconstructing all the lies and fallacies here.
Your best days are behind you...
Have you bought your school supplies yet?
"I was faithful to my second wife before I was unfaithful to my first wife."
John Kerry embodies values. He's faithful to his wife and loyal to his family.
LOL! He dumped his millionairesse, to trade up to a billionairess. A real family values kinda guy.
Plus, I hear he’s been gay with McGreevey.
Yes, it would seem they are.
Yet another mental midget struck down before his time. Y'all just don't friggin' learn, do you?
Is this your term paper for the current events seminar down at Crappy Community College?
John Kerry is really head and shoulders above Bush in patriotism and honesty.
The importance of patriotism and honesty was seared – seared – into John Kerry's mind on Christmas Eve, 1968, while he was getting shot at in Cambodia on the orders of Richard Nixon, who wasn’t even President yet.
Dear clueless,
Increasing taxes, and removing billions available for capital does not stimulate the economy. You get a "0" in Economics 101.
the professor.
By the Khmer Rogue who didn't actually start running around under that name until what, '71?
Please remove that double-tap, O Mighty One!
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