Kerry delivers.Follow

Bush/Cheney have been served. Now it's on.

Hush up, cracker.

The word of the Right isn't good or evil.

More like stupid.

I'm sorry if the "(" "?" ")" caused some confusion of my opinion of the right wing agenda.

Taxing the poor, while cutting taxes to the rich (yes, this includes dividends and inheritance) is more or less...

EVIL

Very nice speech. I agree with Smash that Kerry is probably leading in polls right now, but don't forget that the DNC is still fresh in everyone's minds. A lot of people tend to forget about the other party when one party is having their convention. I'll make a prediction on election after the RNC.

As for Kerry....

I am really impressed with him. I watch these conventions kind of cynically. While his little video was playing I kept telling myself that they were obviously trying to make him look as good as possible, but still I found myself almost trusting this man. If anything I will say this about Kerry: I think he is very honest and has a lot of integrety. That's more than I can say for Bush.

To make the comparisons short here:

Bush 43 == Carter
Kerry == Reagan

Look up the 1980 election and preceding events and then tell me you don't see any sort of relation to current events.

I understand your political fervor Taco, but geez. On the off chance I log on to see you've bothered to post it's to stand in my reflected limelight and join the chourus of Right wing naysayers.

You have fawned over Bush, praised Cheney, decried gay marriage. You were undoubtedly one of those people who defended Bush when he lied during the State of the Union.

This as a whole has been loathesome enough, but then when the GOP has their shin dig in a few weeks you won't notice because you'll be too busy teaching children how to more effectively hit each other.

If only everyone on the Right was so vaccuous and uniformed.

Oh wait, they are.


Edited, Fri Jul 30 06:58:25 2004 by Smasharoo

I can see where taco is coming from though, smash strikes me as someone who has decided that they are a liberal, and no matter what the liberals do, he will defend it. If kreyy killed a baby on stage at his speech, smash wouldn't think "is it right to kill a baby?" he would think "what could i say is right about killing babies?", and defend kerrys decision to kill babies untill the end, simply because he's in the liberal party.


It must be comforting to dismiss what you don't understand.

You must beleive in God, too.

Not to be picky but...

Q: If they cut taxes on the rich and we keep spending more money, exactly where does the burden of debt end up?

A: All but those who received the tax cut (including the poor, but mostly the middle and lower middle class)

The message of Kerry's speach was exactly what I expected it to be:

I am not George W. Bush.

The empty cheering of the delegates was all that kept that speach from being half an hour of crickets chirping. Anyone who bought Kerry's speach, with its promises of raising taxes to everyone making over $200,000 a year, promises to not raise taxes on the middle class, promises to fully fund education & head start programs, promises to fully implement universal health care, is naive and has little understanding of economics and the way politics work.

Of course, seeing as the democratic party's power base is in uneducated, poor ghetto trash, it just might have worked.

Edited, Fri Jul 30 10:14:01 2004 by MoebiusLord

I think Smash does somewhat blindly defend the left, which is too bad because I think his opinions would carry more weight otherwise.

If anything, listening to Kerry's speech should show that there really aren't two distinct parties anymore. Kerry doesn't represent all of the traditionally Democratic ideals, nor, thankfully, does Bush represent all the Republican ideals.

I tend to see them both as individuals in their own right, with their own ideas and visions, whether right or wrong.

Something I see people criticize Kerry for often is his lack of vision, no new bold ideas. I don't understand that. Isn't repairing our nation and ties to other nations enough of a bold idea? Whether you add another deck to the Titanic doesn't matter if you don't steer clear of the iceberg.

Kerry's quote of Lincoln vibrated with me in regard to Bush. I don't want someone who thinks God is on HIS SIDE to be the leader of the most powerful military force on earth.

For those who don't care to look the reference up...

During the war, Lincoln overheard someone remark that he hoped "the Lord was on the Union's side." Lincoln responded with this sharp rebuke:

I am not at all concerned about that, for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

You know what's ironic about this whole election? Most of the on the line voters and even a good portion of Bushes base, don't like either of the choices. Not many are going to vote for Bush or Kerry they are voting against the other persons opponent.

Varus

After reading this like 5 times to make sure I understood it...

I actually agree on this one. That's why Kerry's message should be - Hey if you like how Bush has performed, by all means go vote for the guy. But if you want an alternative to (insert Bush blunder here), I'm the one who can fix it by (insert real plan to fix it here).