According to the emails (and “close encounters”) I received in response to my last few blogs, I am a total idiot and I need to vote for Kerry.
Not one of the responses I got (including the two rather upset young Democrats who accosted me at my local coffee shop) had anything nice to say about Bush. However, all of them did provide me with something I have been looking for: a reason to vote FOR Kerry. Cement, God’s Honest Truth, non-anti-Bush reason to vote for Kerry. And they were all different! If I had known that all I needed to say “ I think Kerry looks like Skeletor” to get a response with some reasons to be pro-Kerry rather than anti-Bush, I would have opened my blogs with that very sentence every day!
Just a few more things:
#1 - I had two young ladies approach me when I went out for coffee with some friends this weekend – they thought I was a “total moron” for thinking that Bush “won” the debate and for even contemplating giving my vote to Bush.
They had a few good anti-Bush points, but not very many pro-Kerry opinions. It was interesting, to say the least, and cheap entertainment for early weekend morning. Ladies, if you can come up with some more good conversation for me, meet me back at the same place, same time and we’ll chat. Please tell me why I should vote for Kerry, not why I should NOT vote for Bush.
#2 -Yes, all of you out there in Cyber Land are correct when you think that I am a total dork for saying that the best person to fix something is the person who broke it. When I break my car, I don’t fix it myself, because I am not car-smart. The current president does not appear to be “war smart” and Kerry, having the experience in combat (which he constantly likes to refer to), probably is the man to do the job. I did not think of that, and for that, I apologize. (Thanks to “n” and William P. for pointing out my idiocy)
#3 - My mysterious emailer, “n”, made an extraordinarily good point in her email that I thought I should share: “I understand that not everyone warms to Kerry (though his respect and kindness towards his family is good enough for me), but a president needs to be qualified to do the job. He needs to know the issues so that he can make a good decision and to show good judgement (sic). Our lives are in his hands every day, so in the end, I find it reassuring that Kerry knows more than I do. A president should.”
One problem I still seem to have - I do not understand how Kerry can fix the situation Bush has put us in with taxes and Social Security and the like. I understand that Bush is not going to fix something that does not directly impact him or his “big business” buddies, but how is Kerry going to stem the bleeding? Does anyone have a website I can peruse that explains what is going on here?
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