This weekend in Russia, two hundred people are dead. Many of them children. As of Saturday morning, 531 people remain hospitalized, including 283 kids -- 92 of them in grave condition.
This pisses me off!
How many more terrorist acts are required before people wake up and realize that the world is a dangerous place governed by the aggressive use of force? I'm amazed at the people who think the critical issues in this US election include jobs and other ancillary issues. Under normal conditions that is certainly a valid motivation for casting your vote.
However, we are not under normal conditions. We are at war. A war we neither sought nor deserved. The Constitution specifically states that one of the responsibilities the people gave government was to "provide for the common defense." There is a reason for this. Without security, there won't be any jobs.
I voted for Gore last time around and Clinton before that. However, I've also voted for Bush over Clinton and Reagan twice. Demonstrably, I don't have any allegiance to any party. Fact is, if we weren't in a global war for the future of freedom, I would probably vote for Edwards in the hopes that he would keep the flap in the breeze Kerry blowing in the right direction.
I fail to see how letting people of the same sex who love each other get married will be more destructive to marriage than a near 50% divorce rate. I believe our environment is worse off now than it was before Bush. I think stem cell research will prove to be as big a healthcare advancement this century as penicillin was in the last. I also believe all of that is irrelevant when there are people who are actively seeking to kill you and me.
Therefore, I will vote for Bush November 2nd. I think you should too.
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