My Anti-Endorsement for John Kerry

(Or, Why Kerry's Not Good Enough to Be the President)

OK, so all these close-minded papers are endorsing Kerry for President, so here goes my Anti-Endorsement.

Why Kerry's Unqualified:

1. He thinks the President is an all-powerful king. First, listen to all the things he blames Bush for. He blames Bush for the flu vaccine shortage. He blames Bush for the fact that Afghanistan produces 75% of the world's opium. How does Bush control that? He also blamed Bush for letting some weapons go missing to terrorists in Iraq. Actually, those weapons went missing before the war. Besides, I thought Iraq wasn't a terrorist threat anyway, according to other things Kerry says. He blames Bush for not passing a good energy bill. Actually, Kerry's the one in Congress who should be voting on these energy bills, and he's missed so many senate votes that it's more his fault than Bush's.

Second, listen to all the things he promises about education, social security, healthcare, etc, etc, but he still plans to cut the budget in half?

He seems to think that the President is in control of everything in the world, from the flu to opium in Afghanistan, and that the President has unlimited money supplies as well. Does a man with such misunderstanding deserve the White House?

2. He will say and do anything to please everyone. This one bugs me more than the first one. Back in spring, he told some auto people in Detroit about all the big SUVs his family owns, just to impress them. Then later he talked to some environmentalists, and when they asked him about the Detroit deal, he said, "Oh, I don't own them, my famliy owns them," just to impress them. Kerry talks about supporting the troops in Iraq, but he voted against a big war bill back when he was still vying for position within his own party. Bush and Cheney both brought it up in debates, accusing him and Edwards of voting that way only because Howard Dean was making progress on a big anti-war campaign, and they had to copy him or lose support. I thought those accusations were a little stretched, but in the debates neither Kerry nor Edwards defended themselves. Is it true, then?

Kerry has repeatedly voted against guns, voting to ban them and things. But he had to impress the gun people, so he bought a camo jacket, and got some pictures taken of him going goose-hunting, just to impress them. The gun he was carrying was a gun he had voted to ban! Kerry supports marriage between a man and a woman (to impress those people), but not as a constitutional amendment, and he wants gay people to have the same rights married people has (to impress those people).

Time after time, on issue after issue, Kerry does whatever he thinks will get him the most support at the time. And the sad thing is, it's working. These aren't exaggerated opinions here! I haven't even mentioned the controversial Swift Boat Vets, which probably have some truth to them anyways. I'm just using cold hard facts...things Kerry has said and done!

I'm not a die-hard radical conservative who just wants to bash Kerry. I'm not overly impressed with Bush. I'm really not. But compared to this guy who doesn't understand the limits of the presidential office, who will say and do anything to try to please everyone and get elected... John Kerry has no integrity.

Bush, on the other hand, has experience, first as a governor, and now four years as President. Kerry has never served in a top position role like a governor or president. He's just been a senator---and he's hardly there to vote for anything anyway! Bush made some mistakes in Iraq, but things are getting better, and it's only a matter of time before we find bin Laden in Afghanistan, too.

Vote for Bush.

Edmond the Hun