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25-10-04, 11:07 AM | #1 |
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The no choice candidate...
As I listened to the campaigns I started to notice a theme running through the Bush rhetoric. George W. Bush is the no choice candidate. At all his campaign stops Bush promotes a no choice agenda. On numerous topics his solution is one of no choice...
We all know Bush is against a woman's right to an abortion. He does not believe it is a woman's choice to have an abortion eliminating a growth before it becomes a life but believes it is a murder of an unborn life before it is born; for this reason he is against the choice of a woman to have an abortion. That is really what abortion is about, one group believes it removes a growth before life begins and the other group believes it is a life before any growth has begun. Which came first the chicken or the egg? If you can answer that, you can answer the abortion question... Bush is also against choice on gay marriage. He wants a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriages. He doesn't believe people have the right to make a choice of marrying the same sex. Bush wants a federal law banning same-sex marriage rather than leaving the choice up to each individual state to determine what is right for their state... Bush is against choice on prescription drugs. He is against people importing drugs from Canada preventing those requiring prescription drugs from having a choice to pay less than they would for the same drugs at home... When it came to invading Iraq, Bush said there was no choice and went against the majority of the countries of the world. The U.S. government was given no choice on who would make money off of the war in Iraq; he handed out a no bid contract to Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton. He now has America stuck in Iraq with no choice but to remain... George W. Bush is the antilibertarian candidate. He is against choice and free will. His support of the Patriot Act and less civil rights is based on the false premise that in the name of security the country has no choice but to allow government agencies more access to your personal information, such as what book you took out at your local library... Bush is against Cuban Americans having the choice to travel and visit their family members in Cuba. He put travel restrictions on families visiting Cuba instead of giving them the choice to visit their family went they wish... George W. Bush is the no choice candidate. More times than not George W. Bush has made the choice of giving fewer choices to Americans. Instead of showing his successes on the campaign trail, provided he had some, Bush uses a negative attack on Senator Kerry to make the point that no matter how bad he himself is, he is better than Senator Kerry at security and that if you want to be safe you have no choice but to vote for him.... In fairness to George W. Bush, 9-11 happened under his watch, there are more job losses than ever before, there proved to be no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, under his leadership the war has failed miserably and as casualties mount, it is getting worse every day. George W. Bush had no choice but to run a negative campaign because there has been absolutely nothing positive about his first term in office. He is the no choice candidate but fortunately for America, there is a choice Bush or Kerry. The pessimist will vote for Bush, the optimist will vote for Kerry. The pessimist believes things will get worse but is afraid of change, the optimist believes that things can get better and votes for change. George W. Bush is the no choice candidate; people have no choice but to vote for Kerry... |
25-10-04, 02:15 PM | #2 | |
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It's been to his advantage that we're being killed in Iraq. I've often considered he went to Iraq as part of his plans for re-election. If not for the Iraq conflict GW would lose as badly as Carter lost to Reagan. |
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25-10-04, 07:18 PM | #3 | |
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imo, if it wasn't for Iraq, Bush would be be cruising. you could arguably give him passing grades on the economy and the war on terror in general....and that would probably be good enough for the majority of voters. except for Iraq. when it comes to the war in Iraq, there's no excuses - it's a mess and he is entirely 100% responsible for it. can't blame the former administration, the democrats, the "liberal media" or anybody else...win or lose, Bush has personally saddled the country with an enourmous debt of lives and resources that we will be paying for long after he's gone. i believe these particular chickens will come home to roost next Tuesday. |
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25-10-04, 11:04 PM | #4 |
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I have to agree with RoBoBoy on this one. If Bush and his administration had any cognizance at all of the time and difficulty Iraq was going to pose, and they can't be so stupid that they didn't, in spite of all the ignorant posturing about an 'easy war,' then it fit right into the post-911 keep 'em scared opportunism campaign. It's fucking nuts that this works so well on so many people in spite of the fact that the war with Iraq is the biggest Al-Queada recruitment ad anyone could have ever engineered, but there you have it.
You say there's no excuse for Iraq Mr. Knife, but IMO this is one of the best ones. His over-the-top Wolves ad seems to be all one needs to confirm that at least someone in the campaign is thinking that banking on fear and catering to pessimism is their strongest suit. Baaa-aaa-aaaa |
25-10-04, 11:30 PM | #5 | |
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All this thread is really saying is that voters for Bush are fearful and pessimistic and I resent that accusation. I take my vote seriously and I came to my decision to vote for the President thoughtfully and unemotionally. Others may not have done so, but the same could be said of Kerry voters as well. I'm not insulted, don't get me wrong, I know you guys aren't attacking me. But to discount half of the nation's opinions as being irrational and ovine is indefensible. Everybody understands how important this election is, and don't forget it. |
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We do have a choice, a vote for the status quo or a vote for hope. |
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26-10-04, 01:35 PM | #9 | |
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It appears you're voting GW and that's ok if it's what you believe but what has he done for you, your family and your peer group? How has he made the US better than it was when he took office. Are we safer today because of anything GW has done. Do we have more jobs? If you're a US citizen are you as proud of that status now as you were before GW? |
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