Thanks!
It was a well-reasoned article. I hope it gets seen and used.
Kerry was verging on funny the way he started every response with "This president" or "Because of this president", then blah blah blah.
Honestly, I wanted someone to ask him what he had for lunch, just to hear him start off with "This president...
I was glad he kept at it because it made him look like the downer, negative, pessimistic loser he is.
He sounded like a broken record of doom and gloom. Everything is wrong, etc.
Bush really does need to say something in the same way Reagan did, to set up the listeners to tune into this continual droning on...like "Can my opponant start off with something positive, answering the question directly rather than launching another negative attack at me?"
You have also made a great deal about the War on Terror and the deployment of our American fighting forces around the world to combat terror at its roots in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You have belittled the significant contributions of our allies and friends around the globe, describing the Iraqi actions as the "wrong war at the wrong place and the wrong time".
Yet with all we have asked of our fighting men and women, the long days and months away from friends and family, fighting a war that began in earnest when we were brutally attacked on that September morning, fighting an enemy that knows no rules of war, that obeys no recognized morality other than that the ends justifies the means, that fights from behind women and children and hides in mosques, schools and hospitals; with all that, the vast majority of them want to stay the course.
Now you can call that an endorsement of my proven record as commander in chief, or a rejection of your 30 year record of trashing the military and denying them the tools they need to do their jobs - which is it?