2004 Presidential Election

[piece-it pete]

I certainly respect you and your fellow Canadians, proven good friends of ours.

But.



Opinion! So:

The world, not to mention Americans, needs that result.

The world needs leadership. Were are they going to get it? France?

I'm Canadian but I don't pretend to be unbiased. As never before perhaps, Americans are deceived and self-deceived in this election race.

The pathetic, ridiculous debate about whether Kerry flip-flopped on this or that issue, much less whether he was such a war hero as has been made out, is diversion. Yet I suppose many American see these non-issues as somehow important. Americans, see the big picture!

I appreciate your candor. Many now pass themselves off as independents.

We heard about character being a non-issue before, and became the laughingstock of the world there for a while.

Don't judge him by his RECORD, judge him by what he's saying now?

Fight for a guy that called you a baby-killer, let alone respect him?

Focus on the fundamental issue: do you want an America dedicated to the protection of narrow, short-term personal and corporate self-interest, (viz. greed), or to personal freedom and opportunity, and a better world..

Then by all means vote in the super-rich, THEY'LL protect you from the merely wealthy!

And Bush freed the Iraqis from the Butcher. No hollow talk, that.

One of the more appalling aspects in this race is the polarization a long religious lines: "conservative Christian", (Catholic and Protestant), versus everything and everyone else. Again, I'm not unbiased: "Christian Right" is an oxymoron. Conservative Christianity in the US is Pharisaic, that is, like the self-centred, self-righteousness of the Biblical Pharisees whom Christ condemned. Were I not a religious sceptic, I'd greatly fear that they have not accepted Christ's true message and hence will go straight to hell. Won't they be surprised, though!.

Christians didn't just desert the Dems, they were thrown out. Search "christian" at www.democraticunderground.org to see what I mean.

Jesus will vote for abortion on demand? Gay "marriages"? And our God does not shy away from terror nor condemn the soldier for doing his job.

If you are not a Christian, how can you decide, with authority, who is?

If I called you a hypocritical bigot, wouldn't you be offended?

On the Iraq issue, to be completely pragmatic, Bush made America and the World much less safe, rather more so. by the invasion. It's not just whether the money and lives would have been better spent on fighting Bin Laden.

Big picture, or Bin Laden? Old Binnie has been holed up for years now, while we take out the Al Qida still operating, and tie up their resources in Iraq. It's been VERY successful - we haven't been hit again.

Pete