Bush and Kerry Better Clarify The World Tonight

...[T]he policy that Mr. Bush is now arguing before the voters... [is] his Sept. 20, 2001, address to Congress.... [T]his speech ... marked the emergence of the Bush Doctrine."

...Mr. Bush made clear that he believed the world had entered a phase unlike any before: "The United States can no longer solely rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past.... We cannot let our enemies strike first."

It is not merely Iraq that John Kerry is running against as a "colossal mistake," but the whole sweep of global policy laid out in the Bush national security strategy two years ago. Beyond pre-empting terror at its source, Mr. Bush articulated a vision committed to "free enterprise," pro-growth regulatory policies and low tax rates. "Decades of massive development assistance" he calls "a failed strategy." He includes NATO in his coalitions of the "able and willing" but that is contingent on Europe spending more on defense modernization....

But this isn't Sen. Henry Jackson's liberal democratik or even Joe Lieberman's. It is John Kerry's and that of the modern, post-Vietnam Democratic Party. It would be more accurate to call Mr. Kerry's foreign-policy Soft Realism. Soft Realism will respond if attacked (as stated policy anyway), pursue a consensus policy brokered with France, Germany and the U.N. Secretary General and substitute multilateral sanctions for pre-emptive action.

In a telling moment, Mr. Kerry said that Mr. Bush was "intoxicated with American might." As a soft realist, Mr. Kerry will steer clear of "American might." Mr. Kerry's foreign-policy vision, one suspects, will not be carried out in Baghdad or Kabul but in Georgetown, Geneva and Turtle Bay. (Question for Mr. Kerry: Is the problem not so much that this is the "wrong war," but that it is simply, a war?)....

Another Choice for the American people - the Kerry/Heinz tab;

WORTH REPEATING.......AND REPEATING........
High Cost of Kerry..this willl amaze!

Here are some facts that most of us either don't know or are just vaguely aware of. But when someone who has gathered some cast figures from government sources and puts figures to some of these expenses....wow! Subject: HIGH COST.. awsome!!!!
It is good to be John F. Kerry....... The F stands for Forbes in case you ever wondered. (I didn't know that either) He is one of the richest Senators in Government. When someone is elected president, it means the Secret Service has to protect the President and his family as well as his property.
The Kerry's have five US properties not counting the several foreign properties they own too.
The cost to run these homes are more than what the average American could afford, even if the rent was free, and all you had to pay the water, gas &electric. Including ground keepers, maintenance, pool, and house keepers. To be President would require the taxpayers to pay for all that now if elected. Including a complete staffed Secret Service security 24 hours a day. In addition to that we will have to pay for each of their homes for security improvements even if they never go to them all, that is, that just in case.
Nevertheless, factor another major cost to Americans that Kerry does not want you to know about.
Becoming president would automatically include taking care of all their properties with Secret Service Agents that includes 5 agents per 6 hour shift 4 times a day 365 days of the year for the rest of their lives so long as they own those properties. It comes with being President, once you are elected. It requires us the taxpayers, to pay for this as well as his annual salary, as well as his retirements including the cost of living adjustments to boot, plus salaries and protection for all their real estate property, plus Secret Service Agents, and pay the bills for the rest of his life. In addition, feed the Secret Service Agents and rotate new ones every 6 hours for the rest of his life.
Do the math. Five properties need to be protected. This requires five Secret Service Agents per shift, daily every six hours, per property! That is 20 Secret Service Agents per day per property everyday including Holidays. Wow, what does that cost?
Lets say an average of 20 agents per property, each earning a about $60K per agent to survey the perimeters and protect. Now times that by five properties so far. That is if the Kerrys do not buy any more properties afterwards. This also includes the Agents vehicles and repairs, gas, meals, days off, paid vacation, and medical plan visits etc per agent.
Who pays? YOU pay, the whole time they are alive after becoming President! Is this the best use of our tax money electing Kerry to take care of all their properties, both foreign and domestic? On the other hand, shouldn't he pay for his own? Yet, the Presidential salary could not afford it.
The more I think about paying for Kerrys properties everyday, just makes me happy keeping President Bush all the more merrier. Without raising taxes to boot.
How on earth would Kerry pay for everyone to have Healthcare, increase our military, and have us pay to protect his investments, all without raising our taxes? ..... Tax and spend Kerry is his party motto .....
Which really has to make you wonder why anyone with his wealth, would take a salary of that of a U.S. Senator, never mind wanna be President? Do you believe now why he needs to be the Prez? To serve the people? On the other hand, the people serve Him and his wife!
So.... now we have yet another reason to keep Bush in the White House and not be concerned with the Kerry Houses.

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