I usually watch the political process very closely and this year has been
a very interesting election year.
Bush 43 is a lot like his father in regards to
domestic policies. Bush truely believes that government can solve many of
the problems in society. This is why he has been signing the biggest
budgets in history. He recently had to fight with the more fiscally
conservative wing of his party to get the added drug benefits to Medicare.
Bush also has pushed for and got from Congress a huge increase of money spend
on education. I personally believe that the tax cut that Bush drove through
Congress has helped our post-9/11 economic recovery. For the most part Bush
has done what he said during his 2000 campaign, which BTW is similiar to
his platform when he was governor of Texas. I believe that his foreign
policy is on the right track as well. I don't see how anyone can think that
any government can reason with people willing to shoot children in the back
or cut the heads off of innocent civilians to make a polical statement.
Any government (Spain, France and Germany) that tries to negotiate with
terrorist is condeming their democracy to a shinking black hole of
never-ending violence and chaos. Bush has the right idea: hit the thugs
with overwhelming force, punish or destroy any government that supports
them and promote democratic ideas. Terrorist groups hate democracy
and by supporting democratic ideas worldwide you will destroy the
ideological foundations of terrorism. Whether you agree with Bush's
policies or not he has shown us that he has the qualities of
strong and steady leadership. I believe that Bush thought that
Iraq was a possible threat to the US based on the information
he had at the time, information that was echoed by many other
governments including some Middle East governments as well.
Even without large stores of WMD's found in Iraq the war was
the right thing to do based on David Kay's and the Dulfer
report. Leadership is sometimes doing something that will
make you more unpopular even though you believe it must
be done.
The problem with Kerry IMO is that he does not know how to
be a candidate outside of the suburbs of Boston. His record
as senator fits the term "liberal" like a well-worn hat. Kerry
believes in big government so I find his attacks on
Bush's big bugets very amusing. I think the difference is that
while Bush believes that government can help people get to
a better place in their lives Kerry believes that government
should simply take care of people's basic needs. A government-
controled healthcare system (like he seems to be proposing)
is a good example of the Kerry idea of government. Kerry
seems to slip in and out of positions depending on his
speaking venue. This is not leadership, it's pandering. I
don't want to get into his slandering of vets in the early
70's because that was a long time ago but I does reflect his
present attitude of putting America's interests behind
the interests of foreign countries. I find this extremely
disturing considering the recent corruption at the UN
that involved some of the very countries that a President
Kerry would seem to consult on national policy. Simply
stated his man does not have the personality nor the
leadership skills to be President of the United States.
Opps, this post is getting too long.