[SummerChild]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
That's reason enough for me.

I think Kerry is a media fabrication. I think he has integrity issues. I think he's wishy-washy, and I find his stentorian delivery off-putting. I think he flip-flops more than cheap drugstore sandals. The fact that he threw away someone else's medals at that demonstration so long ago shows me that he's all about grand gestures, not about actual convictions.

But you know what? He's not in the back pocket of evangelical Christians who want to set social policy in this country back 100 years. He didn't lie to get us into an unwinnable war just so he could avenge his father's defeat. He's not an intellectual midget -- at least it seems that he got SOMETHING out of Yale other than cocaine connections.

Bush drones on and on about how Saddam was a madman, and how he's a dangerous man. But to me, there's no more dangerous man than someone with a C- brain being in control of the last remaining superpower. There's nothing more dangerous than having someone who is driven by a modern-day Manifest Destiny ideology when it comes to International Relations. Bush and his cronies are colonists and imperalists in every negative sense of the word, and they don't care whose lives are destroyed in the process -- even the lives of those Americans who volunteered to support and defend the Constitution. And while we're on the Constitution, he wants to re-introduce the language of hate and divisiveness in the document that is the cornerstone of our democracy! Granted the language was already there, but America has made great strides in becoming a place where all are protected (at least at the Judicial level), and he wants to set hundreds of years of civil and social progress back just because the Fundies told him to.

So yeah, I'm only voting for Kerry just so GWB is handed his coat and hat come November. But I feel completely justified in making that decision.

Whoever gets the nomination, I hope that he can beat Baby Bush.

SC