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2004-07-14 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2004-07-14 9:00:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow. This guy should've stayed here in Mass. With those credentials, he could've become "Super Hack".

Posted by tu3031 2004-07-14 9:41:17 AM|| 2004-07-14 9:41:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Good point about the overseas military vote. In 2000, I voted absentee for Florida while stationed in Germany... and my vote was thrown out. (yes I voted for Bush). It was thrown out because of a notary issue. We didnt have a notary available, so I used my company commander as a witness.
So there you have it. A vote for Bush that was thrown out.

Posted by JackAssFestival 2004-07-14 2:31:41 PM|| 2004-07-14 2:31:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Usually I try to keep comments short on rantburg, but since this story highlights so well who Kerry relates to best, and since this is such an important election, I thought I would attach this missive I sent a Kerry-loving friend:

There are many reasons why I could support Kerry-gay rights, legal abortion, and resistance to outsourcing perhaps being the most important. There is one big reason I will never vote for Kerry: he will harm America and the world by doing whatever it takes to satisfy international public opinion, which is never sated, and which today is all about punishing the powerful (America). He willingly embraces that particular kind of neurotic guilt complex common to liberal America, and the international community just laps it up. It's not healthy, we certainly don't deserve it, and I, like others, don't respond well to demands for America to change while most of the rest of the world is carrying a prodigious Jacob Marley's chain of its own and gets off scot free. We are still the best thing this world has going.

Had Kerry been president after 9/11, Saddam would have stayed in power and would have tortured and murdered thousands more Iraqis. And food-for-oil corruption would have been swept under the rug so as not to upset French deals with Saddam. Kerry will be the water boy for every lethal, misguided notion the Europeans have. Europe needs to wake up-there is such a thing as evil; if we followed Mr. Chirac's philosophy of "war is never justified", they'd be breeding little Aryans in France today and there wouldn't be a Jew alive. Europe's cushy existence makes them forget that for every form of life on earth, you have to fight for survival, against death.

Kerry insists he could have gotten the French, Germans and Russians, among others, to be helpful and behave more like allies vis-a-vis Iraq's provocation. But guaranteeing the future actions of questionable allies is boastful and reckless and does not take into account their antagonism towards America. Unless he realizes that many Americans, like myself, are sick of the pocket-pinching, scapegoating, and cowering of the Europeans and international community in general, he is going to lose votes. He lost mine.

Posted by jules 187 2004-07-14 2:33:02 PM|| 2004-07-14 2:33:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Spanish Campaign?
Hell you don't think?
Wait a second... he is half Irish...

Posted by Shipman 2004-07-14 4:57:27 PM|| 2004-07-14 4:57:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Jules...absolutely wonderful and eloguently spoken. Did you convince your friend?

Posted by AF Lady 2004-07-14 8:16:42 PM|| 2004-07-14 8:16:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you, AF. No, I didn't. Yet. ;)

Posted by jules 2 2004-07-14 8:43:24 PM|| 2004-07-14 8:43:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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