This is a quote from an article written by someone who says
he has a proud tradition of voting for Independant candidates,
but not THIS time around.


" But -- perhaps more than any other president in American history -- George Bush deserves to be fired by the American people.

The list of reasons why is a near-exhaustive litany of his entire record, one of corrosive ideological rigidity combined with stunning incompetence: the Iraq invasion and the subsequent near-comic disaster of an incompetent occupation, loss of civil liberties and our ever-expanding prison systems, compulsive secrecy, the lousy economy and steady loss of decent jobs, repeated tax cuts for the wealthy, environmental degradation, corporate corruption, blurring the separation of church and state, the danger to reproductive freedoms, the list goes on, and on, and on.

If Bush is not re-elected for a second term, it will be a repudiation, the opposite of a voter mandate. It will be a referendum on Bush's record, and particularly his decision to wage a reckless war for dishonest reasons. It will serve as a powerful disincentive for Kerry or any other future president to mount any sort of similarly reckless imperial campaign.

I don't hate George Bush. I just want to fire him.

John Kerry deserves my vote because he can do something that Nader and Cobb cannot, something no other candidate can do: he can defeat George Bush. If he does, Iraq will still be with us, but we'll also have a clear message that presidents who try to wage aggressive wars in the future do so at the risk of their jobs.

That's a message I can get behind.

John Kerry for President. "


Geov Parrish is a Seattle-based columnist and reporter for Seattle Weekly.