Holy christ. I leave for a few weeks and all neocon hell breaks out.
First, Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar. Bush barely graduated Yale with average grades. And lying? No one died when Clinton lied.
Bush can't think of nor admit one mistake he's ever made, so how does anyone expect him to learn from his mistakes? And his supporters mistakenly believe:
75% believe Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.
74% believe Bush favors including labor and environmental standards in agreements on trade.
72% believe Iraq had WMD or a program to develop them.
72% believe Bush supports the treaty banning landmines.
69% believe Bush supports the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
61% believe if Bush knew there were no WMD he would not have gone to war.
60% believe most experts believe Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.
58% believe the Duelfer report concluded that Iraq had either WMD or a major program to develop them.
57% believe that the majority of people in the world would prefer to see Bush reelected.
56% believe most experts think Iraq had WMD.
55% believe the 9/11 report concluded Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda.
51% believe Bush supports the Kyoto treaty.
20% believe Iraq was directly involved in 9/11.
- Get the details of the poll
here
Bush takes everything that the public fears about him and turns it to attack Kerry
- Bush lacks War experience? Attack Kerry on his service.
- Bush is weak on the economy? Attack Kerry on eductation, health care, and social security.
- ad infinitum
Bush lies. Kerry "exaggerates"
Kerry: the Iraq war will cost $200B. (The noecons get in an uproar of "falshoods," yet the recent request for an additional $70b actually makes it $225B).
Bush: "Kerry will make defense a matter of other governments."
Bush failed miserably at the debates
- His campaign said he was too mellow during 1, so they gave him uppers for 2. That made him too aggressive, so they gave him downers for 3. I don't need a president on drugs.
Bush is in it for personal gain and payback.
- $450B corporate tax cut
- Raise medicare costs and give contracts to friends
- Sadam tried to kill George Sr
- Iraq has oil that he wanted
- The Saudis "invited" the US to leave all bases in the kingdom, thus requiring the US to act immediately
Orwellian doublespeak
- Clearskies initiative that leaves the envirnment more polluted than ever
- No Child Left Behind, underfunded and leaves behind 28 million children
- Sanctity of life, except for the death penalty and eithanasia
- Compassionate conservative who wants to amend the US Constitution to include discrimination
Misplaced priorities
- Invade Iraq, but have no plan for securing the non-WMD nor the peace
- Ignoring past administrations (including George Sr's) and current counsel on lack of exit strategy for Iraq invasion
- Ignoring and suporessing scientific and expert advice when it doesn't suit his personal goals
- The US experts in nuclear power said the aluminum tubes Saddam had couldn't be used for weapons; the admin told them not to say anything publicly to refute the president
- Ignores "OBL determined to strike US soon" CIA report and continues with his month-long August 2001 vacation in Texas
- Continiues to read to elementary students "My Pet Goat" after the second plane has hit the WTC
- Bush chides Kerry over missing explosives, "Don't jump to conclusions." Bus that's exactly what Bush has been doing all along.
- Bush called the citizens of NYC "whiners" and "babies" for wanting federal disaster assistance after 9-11, but pours the money into Florida after the hurricanes
- Promises to lobby OPEC to lower oil prices, then refuses, resulting in record gas prices
Bush's base is losing faith
- The Nuremburg Files (a right-wing radical pro-life org that supports the assasinaation of doctors and medical clinic workers) has placed Bush on the list for allowing stem cell research on 60 embyonic lines
- Bush's own Methodist Church fellowship is charging him with crime, immorality, disobedience to pastoral instruction, and violation of Methodist social principles.
- Bush's recent corporate tax cuts are derided by Sen. John McCain "as a giveaway to special interests"
Bush flip flops
- Pledges not to touch social security and then spends it
- Against patient's right to sue, for it, then against it
For a woman's right to choose (2000), against it, then against it more
- For civil unions, against civil unions, for a Constitutional amendment, gay marraige is up to the states
- Against nation-building, for nation-building
- Fiscally conservative, bankrupts the Treasury
- For democracy, supports voter fraud
- Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.
- Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
- Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
- Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
- Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
- Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
- Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
- Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
- Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... then he cuts benefits
- Pledges to issue regulations based on science, then ignores science
- Bush: "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. Bush-"I never said that. That's an exaggeration."
- Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
- Bush talks about helping education and increases mandates while cutting funding.
- Bush first says the US won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will
- Bush goes to Bob Jones University. Then say's he shouldn't have.
- Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote
- Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.
- Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it.
- North Korea, disengage, then engage, then disengage
- The environment, for CO2 limits, then against them; for arsenic limits, then against them
- For $10B in AIDS funding in Africa, then against
- For his office's employment projections, then against
- For lower projection of Medicare's costs, then against
- Against allowing the U.N. to be involved in Iraq, then for it
- For smaller government, now against
- For the extensions on ban of assault weapons, let the ban expire
- For medical marijuana, now raids patient co-ops in California
- For getting to the bottom of the CIA leak, now against it
- Prochoice congressional candidate in 1978, now against abortion
- Bush claims he can win the war on terror, then says war on terror is unwinnable, says he will win the war on terror
Lingering excuses when the last one doesn't pan out
- Saddam has WMD
- No he doesn't
- Saddam has WMD programs
- No he doesn't
- Saddam has intent
- And?
- Saddam is a bad person
- And?
John Kerry's record is one of:
- fiscal discipline
- expanded children's health care
- 100,000 additional police on US streets
- investigate the fate of American POW/MIAs
- helped soldiers suffering from exposure to Agent Orange.
- Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee
- Achieved a more level playing field for small businesses
- Served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations
- One of the most respected experts on national security
- Worked to prevent nuclear proliferation
George Bush's record is one of:
- Divisiveness, at home and abroad
- Squandering the Treasury
- War, unnecessary, poorly planned, and poorly executed
- Loss of 800,000 jobs
- Lower real income
- Higher medical costs
- More choldren and women in poverty
- More Hispanics in poverty
- Damaged environment
- More children failing in school
- More government policy-making jobs for former industry lobbyists
Bush supporters won't change their minds any more readily than Kerry supporters. Hoever, only Bush can be the wrong choice because we know the trash we have. If Kerry were to lose, it'd be "what if."
Finally, from a general personal assessment, Kerry is intelligent, deliberative, methodical, witty, serious, and displays integrity. Furious George just runs around the playground screaming and biting other kids.
Have a nice day.