Originally posted by christa
I have a hard time believing ANYTHING that Kerry says. Sorry. He's too slick. He sounds great, like a real leader, he's definitely got the "look" down . . . but as far as substance, there's nothing there for me.

Soledad, I can't believe that ANYONE would believe that Saddam would just give up or that we could just walk into Iraq & ask him to surrender. How would you suggest that we should have taken him? And he has a plan how to fix it? I never have really heard his plan . . . ??? Enlighten me?
I'm sorry, Christa, you're my buddy, but I have to say I disagree with your views on this one. If you don't know John Kerry's plan for Iraq, you should go to http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/plan_to...ce_in_iraq.pdf and read up about it. I for one, would never make a decision about who I was voting for without researching both candidates.

John Kerry said many times last night that Bush should have gone back to the UN and tried further negotiations with Saddam before he used force. Bush's war was pre-emptive. Saddam didn't surrender because he didn't have any WMDs. Did you read the 9/11 Commission report? We can't just start going into countries and taking them over. That's not what America stands for, to me at least.

Bush looked unprepared, weak and frustrated, whereas Kerry looked strong, charismatic and decisive. Bush did not outline one single specific plan. Bush has a record of failure after failure, and the American people are worse off than they were in 2000 because of it. Kerry laid out specific plans for his vision of America, and gave the American people hope that we can finally succeed in Iraq, and bring our troops home.

I don't know about you, but my tuition went up 22% while I was in college (from fall 1999 - fall 2003). I now owe $65,000 to the federal government. Minimum wage has not increased since 1997, when I was 16. It's still $5.15 an hour. No one can afford to live on $5.15 an hour. The Bush administration is the only administration since Herbert Hoover's in the 1930s in which total employment decreased. After I graduated, I couldn't find a job in the field I went to college for (arts organization management) so now I'm a secretary. It was the only halfway professional job I could find - and I'm still looking. Most of my friends had a hard time finding jobs after graduation, too. I have a friend who recently graduated with a double major in political science and sociology, and now works the Clinique counter at Dillard's. Why? Because there aren't as many good jobs out there as there used to be. Meanwhile, I have friends in Iraq, and my mother got laid off from her job at a non-profit community center because they couldn't afford to pay her. There are two pieces of legislation in front of the Senate and the House of Representatives right now that would reinstate the draft for EVERYONE between the ages of 18 and 26. Males and females. Bush will have to do it if he gets re-elected. Kerry won't have to, because he's going to bring other countries in (so we won't be 90% of the troops anymore) to help pull us out of Iraq completely.

I could go on and on about the issues on which I disagree with Bush - the environment, homeland security (or our lack of it right now), healthcare...

Do any of those things resonate with you?