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Do Americans who are voting Kerry vote for him for any reason besides...
Rampant:
--- Quote from: Ant on October 19, 2004, 09:00:55 PM ---Part of the reason I am voting for Kerry is because I don't like Bush, but I do like Kerry's policies and character. How about the following reasons:
1. Kerry is more committed to the environment.
2. Kerry's healthcare plan is much better than Bush's
3. Kerry for a long time now has been urging us to invest in technology that will make us less dependent on foreign oil and more efficient in general.
4. Kerry will be more fiscally responsible than Bush.
5. Kerry is endorsed by virtually every living American economist with a credible record. All the nobel laureates want him. I have to believe he will manage the economy better than Bush will.
6. Kerry stated the day he cast his vote to give Bush authority to wage war:
"Let there be no doubt or confusion about where we stand on this. I will support a multilateral effort to disarm him (Saddam) by force, if we ever exhaust those other options, as the President has promised, but I will not support a unilateral U.S. war against Iraq unless that threat is imminent and the multilateral effort has not proven possible under any circumstances." Kerry (Oct. 9, 2002)
7. Kerry will support stem cell research.
8. For those of you who haven't seen it. Kerry's testimony before Congress at the age of 27 after coming home from Vietnam impressed me a great deal and demonstrates that he is an individual who cares passionately about this country. He committed to public service at a young age, and showed an ability to lead responsibly while still a young man.
That is enough for now.
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Really? Because candidates NEVER EVER say things that they dont end up doing. ::)
white Boy:
i was for bush.. then i realized i despise bushes views on drugs.. and hes too pro christianity.. and im an athiast.. and i believe in the seperation of church and state.. bush doesnt know what that is...
M Dogg™:
I lean so far left, that I bleed communist red. (oh, everyone else bleeds red, well I bleed red 'cause I'm a commie.) My dad was in the auto market, a market that Nader help ruin in the 70's, when he went to court again GM for making smaller, more fuel friendly cars. Nader single handly ruined the great Motor State of Michigan, so fuck him. Also, Nader is not on the California ballot, which is weird because this state is far left. Anyways, The next left person is Kerry, who I don't completely agree with in everything, but his the closest to my views. So I am voting for Kerry. Bush is way to far right for my liking, and his putting religion into everything he does I feel is a slap in the face to my beliefs. I doubt God has told anyone to invade Iraq in today's society, and then give reasons that don't exist. I feel that Kerry is a better person for the office, coming from my point of view, and the way I grew up.
Lincoln:
--- Quote from: tom187um on October 19, 2004, 09:39:01 PM ---i dont understand where your coming from tho lincoln. Say you do not like where the president has taken the country in the past 4 years. And you see the country goin more into the shitter with him as president. How is basing your vote on what you have wittnessed him do a spit in the face of democracy. As long as the other candidate isnt a complete joke how is that a spit in the face of democracy?
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It's a spit in the face of democracy to vote for Kerry just because he could beat Bush. The whole reason we have democracy is so that you can vote the candidate who best represents your views, not who has a chance at winning. That's why 3rd parties have no chance. If people vote who you believe best represents their views then 3rd parties would have more support. For example, all the Nader support is going to Kerry, but Nader will never even reach the debates unless he gets votes.
Ant:
--- Quote from: Lincoln The Mental Traveller on October 20, 2004, 09:39:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: tom187um on October 19, 2004, 09:39:01 PM ---i dont understand where your coming from tho lincoln. Say you do not like where the president has taken the country in the past 4 years. And you see the country goin more into the shitter with him as president. How is basing your vote on what you have wittnessed him do a spit in the face of democracy. As long as the other candidate isnt a complete joke how is that a spit in the face of democracy?
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It's a spit in the face of democracy to vote for Kerry just because he could beat Bush. The whole reason we have democracy is so that you can vote the candidate who best represents your views, not who has a chance at winning. That's why 3rd parties have no chance. If people vote who you believe best represents their views then 3rd parties would have more support. For example, all the Nader support is going to Kerry, but Nader will never even reach the debates unless he gets votes.
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Kerry does support my views and it is unfair to say that simply because Bush made promises he never kept Kerry would do the same thing. That logic is unfair. Because one candidate did bad things, so will the other candidate, so might as well just stick with the bad candidate we already have in place?
I do not know if Kerry will achieve all his stated priorities but I do believe they are his actual priorities. Meanwhile I can't say the same for GWB. I also can say that I strongly disagree with GWB basic worldview. For example,
"we need to kill the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here." This statement makes very little sense.
"even knowing everything we know today I would have done everything exactly the same as I did it"
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