Posted May 12th, 2004 at 2:03AMI like George W. Bush. Really. I’m not quite sure if anyone else could of successfully gotten so many new people interested in politics. Gore? Definitely not. If Gore had been elected – who would the masses have rail against?
Yet, it’s not all that swell. I fear that too much emphasis is put on Bush. Yes, Bush does this. He does that.
But how much would a Democrat have differed from him? The invasion of Iraq – perhaps. But other foreign issues? Or domestically? Very little, I suspect.
People are too fixated on Bush.
“Anybody but Bush” — Is anyone else unnerved by this school of thought? It can always get worse. If there is a single truth, a single constant, throughout all of history, it is that it can always get worse.
So now we turn to Kerry. And where do they differ? Who knows! The single issue that Bush is most railed against — the invasion of Iraq. And this invasion, as we all know, was fully supported by Kerry.
The Patriot Act, perhaps? Much attention has been focused on it. And Kerry was again, a supporter.
Where do they exactly differ? I am still wondering. Bush is content with letting corporate welfare run rampant. A system which, coincidentally, flourished under Clinton. Kerry wants to encourage it, by cutting the corporate tax rate. Bush wishes to draw out gay marriage publicly and permanently curtail it from becoming a possibility. Finishing what Clinton started with the Defense of Marriage Act. Kerry? Thinks Clinton did enough [damage].
Is this progress? Is it? We had eight years of a Democrat with Clinton. We had eight years of foreign conflicts, of sanctions in Iraq, of near-continous bombings in Iraq, eight years of corporate greed, of increasing economic inequality, of continually decreasing buying power for the minimum wage, of more and more free trade agreements signed.
Where is the progress? I can look back at election 2000. I can look at the results.
And I can still agree with Ralph Nader. The Democrats and Republicans are simply different heads for the same monster.
Under Clinton, the rich prospered. Under Bush Junior, everyone has suffered.
What the fuck kind of decision is that?
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I wanted to ask you to join me in a nationwide campaign to open the upcoming presidential debates to include independent candidate Ralph Nader.
A new organization is being launched — LetNaderDebate.Org — whose mission is to bring thousands of fellow Americans into an effort to demand that Nader’s voice be included in the televised debates, the first of which is scheduled for September.
We have begun by circulating our OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, calling on him to open the debates and demand Nader’s inclusion. In order for the debates to be an appropriately engaged forum, Nader’s voice must be included. He offers a significantly different perspective on the pressing issues of the day — including the war in Iraq — and his participation will surely invigorate the dialogue.
First, go to the new website at http://www.LetNaderDebate.org and send the open letter to President George Bush calling on him to bring Ralph into the debates.
Second, make a contribution on line if you can or mail it in.
Third, send an e-mail letter with the http://www.LetNaderDebate.org link to all of your friends, family members and colleagues asking them to join this campaign. You don’t have to be a Nader voter to support an open and democratic debate! It is very important to follow up the e-mail message with a personal conversation.
Fourth, become an ongoing leader in this campaign. Keep reaching out to new people to support this campaign online, in person and through the media. Develop new ways of building this campaign and share this on line with other activists.
This is an important moment in our country’s development 57% Americans say they oppose the war in Iraq, yet there is a prospect of debates on the horizon with 2 candidates who have virtually the same positions on the war – They support it. Nader’s entry into the race provides independents and independent-minded people with a very strong messenger who speaks brilliantly and passionately on behalf of a reordering of our country’s priorities and a restructuring of our political system. As Nader said in a recent Time magazine article, “This goes way beyond November. This is a movement that has to proliferate in all directions year after year.”
So let’s go and get Nader into the debates. I’m eager to hear about other peoples’ ideas and responses.
Best,
Gwen
gwenmand@aol.com
http://www.letnaderdebate.org/
its equality I guess :puke: