From everything I’ve seen, read and watched I am not sure anymore about who is the best man to lead our country.
Both main options have their flaws and qualities (yes guys, admit and agree with me on that much). Besides the hard times that we are now living in, I think this year’s election could become a turning point for our nation, for better or worse. If we take a look at Kerry, we can honestly say that we do agree with him that our economy is not in the greatest shape ever. But it isn’t Bush or this Administration’s fault. It has been scientifically proven that after long periods of prosperity, deficits come in, whether we like it or not, it is part of the economy’s cycle or so they say. So we can’t blame Bush for our present economy/recession but we can thank him neither. Because going to war in simple terms and to middle class citizens means more taxes. The following are some of the reasons why Democrats believe Bush should not be reelected:
• Health: Health Care is now worst than 4 years ago, no improvement what so ever. There is no investment or support from this Administration for research in stem cells and other medicine and health solving breakthroughs.
• Education: This Administration has not respected the “No Child Left Behind Act”;
• Economics: Tax cut for the top 1% and everyone else in the middle and lower classes pay for it.
• Money invested on Iraq should have been invested in the United States. ( 200 mill)- In order to strengthen our Home Front.
• Security: We are basically forgetting about our own country, no homeland security measures have been strengthened. No organization and we are as vulnerable to terrorism as we were 3 years ago.
• Clean Energy is one of the most important issues that should have been addressed by the current administration. Clean Energy is the only option to break dependency from foreign oil and a good measure to prevent wars in chaotic regions such as the Middle East in future situations- but guess what it’ll take 50 years to achieve such goal, even if we begin working on it from as early as today.
However the criticism continues from Bush’s campaign people, their biggest point is that Senator Kerry keeps flip flopping on issues such as going to Iraq, sending our troops, gay marriage and abortion. Democrats believe that Kerry is our best choice as Commander in Chief because he is a war veteran himself (even though it happened 30 years ago and the scenario was completely different); he has more knowledge on international affairs. On the other hand Republicans have a pile of Kerry’s voting record- and that speaks for itself, no need to go into it deeper. Democrats insist that Kerry understands the challenges that our troops face in the 9/11 post era.
Our President and candidate from the Republican Party for this year’s election accepts that there is a lot of anger and that we are living in very serious and dangerous times. Most of the time our President is giving constant explanations for every decision we make in regards to our foreign policies.
He also admits that most people in the States care about their families and the economy. But that we are also concerned about what our government is doing to secure our country. The debate should be, for this year’s election, about who is the best to lead war. It’s imperative to trial terrorists overseas before they hit us at home.
George W. Bush believes that the United States has the obligation to lead, through coalition ( but we went to war alone). He maintains that not only the U.S. government believed that there were weapons of mass destruction but so did other nations. And so our mission from finding weapons of mass destruction has switched to free Iraq, to complete our mission in order to make sure that our military men and women don’t die in vain. Mr. Bush stated in Larry King’s exclusive that right now there are 30 nations in Iraq, to support the actions of our military and to help rebuild that country.
Comments: Is it worth it? By freeing Iraq, are we free from terrorism? The truth is that Iraq is in the heartland of the Middle East, therefore Sadan Hussein could have become a good asset for Al Qaida’s network if he would have remained in power. Some may argue that bin Laden actually despised Hussein and such alliance would never have happened. However, Al Qaida’s network is wider than just the ideas of bin Laden…so we will never know the answer to that remote possibility. Additionally we are just beginning; Iraq is one of our first steps but not the entire formula. On the other hand, we should have finished our work and mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan before undertaking other targets.
Bottom line, this election is probably one of the most difficult I’ve ever seen. This is not about partisan; I just want to know who can lead our country in the best possible way. This is not about black or white, good and evil. They are two men, with interesting backgrounds but have made mistakes too. One last question and statement: Are we going to vote this year with the principle of: “Who is the best man” or “which one is a lesser evil?” (I am not saying that one of them is evil- it is just a term that is commonly used.) . This is also not about turning it into a philosophical problem. My question is simply: Who can lead best our country in this first decade of this millennium; no anarchist answers are welcomed.
Both main options have their flaws and qualities (yes guys, admit and agree with me on that much). Besides the hard times that we are now living in, I think this year’s election could become a turning point for our nation, for better or worse. If we take a look at Kerry, we can honestly say that we do agree with him that our economy is not in the greatest shape ever. But it isn’t Bush or this Administration’s fault. It has been scientifically proven that after long periods of prosperity, deficits come in, whether we like it or not, it is part of the economy’s cycle or so they say. So we can’t blame Bush for our present economy/recession but we can thank him neither. Because going to war in simple terms and to middle class citizens means more taxes. The following are some of the reasons why Democrats believe Bush should not be reelected:
• Health: Health Care is now worst than 4 years ago, no improvement what so ever. There is no investment or support from this Administration for research in stem cells and other medicine and health solving breakthroughs.
• Education: This Administration has not respected the “No Child Left Behind Act”;
• Economics: Tax cut for the top 1% and everyone else in the middle and lower classes pay for it.
• Money invested on Iraq should have been invested in the United States. ( 200 mill)- In order to strengthen our Home Front.
• Security: We are basically forgetting about our own country, no homeland security measures have been strengthened. No organization and we are as vulnerable to terrorism as we were 3 years ago.
• Clean Energy is one of the most important issues that should have been addressed by the current administration. Clean Energy is the only option to break dependency from foreign oil and a good measure to prevent wars in chaotic regions such as the Middle East in future situations- but guess what it’ll take 50 years to achieve such goal, even if we begin working on it from as early as today.
However the criticism continues from Bush’s campaign people, their biggest point is that Senator Kerry keeps flip flopping on issues such as going to Iraq, sending our troops, gay marriage and abortion. Democrats believe that Kerry is our best choice as Commander in Chief because he is a war veteran himself (even though it happened 30 years ago and the scenario was completely different); he has more knowledge on international affairs. On the other hand Republicans have a pile of Kerry’s voting record- and that speaks for itself, no need to go into it deeper. Democrats insist that Kerry understands the challenges that our troops face in the 9/11 post era.
Our President and candidate from the Republican Party for this year’s election accepts that there is a lot of anger and that we are living in very serious and dangerous times. Most of the time our President is giving constant explanations for every decision we make in regards to our foreign policies.
He also admits that most people in the States care about their families and the economy. But that we are also concerned about what our government is doing to secure our country. The debate should be, for this year’s election, about who is the best to lead war. It’s imperative to trial terrorists overseas before they hit us at home.
George W. Bush believes that the United States has the obligation to lead, through coalition ( but we went to war alone). He maintains that not only the U.S. government believed that there were weapons of mass destruction but so did other nations. And so our mission from finding weapons of mass destruction has switched to free Iraq, to complete our mission in order to make sure that our military men and women don’t die in vain. Mr. Bush stated in Larry King’s exclusive that right now there are 30 nations in Iraq, to support the actions of our military and to help rebuild that country.
Comments: Is it worth it? By freeing Iraq, are we free from terrorism? The truth is that Iraq is in the heartland of the Middle East, therefore Sadan Hussein could have become a good asset for Al Qaida’s network if he would have remained in power. Some may argue that bin Laden actually despised Hussein and such alliance would never have happened. However, Al Qaida’s network is wider than just the ideas of bin Laden…so we will never know the answer to that remote possibility. Additionally we are just beginning; Iraq is one of our first steps but not the entire formula. On the other hand, we should have finished our work and mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan before undertaking other targets.
Bottom line, this election is probably one of the most difficult I’ve ever seen. This is not about partisan; I just want to know who can lead our country in the best possible way. This is not about black or white, good and evil. They are two men, with interesting backgrounds but have made mistakes too. One last question and statement: Are we going to vote this year with the principle of: “Who is the best man” or “which one is a lesser evil?” (I am not saying that one of them is evil- it is just a term that is commonly used.) . This is also not about turning it into a philosophical problem. My question is simply: Who can lead best our country in this first decade of this millennium; no anarchist answers are welcomed.
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