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Sorry if Dup Election 2004
Our picks and a selection of races to watch.
Arkansas Times Staff
Updated: 10/21/2004
We begin with the biggest race of them all, for president of the United States.
President - JOHN KERRY
Some elections are more important than others. Many people on both sides of the presidential race have said that this is the most important election of their lifetime. Seldom has the nation been so divided.
Of all the promises that George W. Bush has broken, this may be the biggest. He promised that as president, he would be a uniter, not a divider. He would bring us together. Instead, he has waged class warfare on low- and middle-income Americans, increasing their share of the tax burden and endangering vital government services so that he could give huge tax breaks to his own kind. The gap between rich and poor in America is wider than it has ever been. Then he looks straight into the television camera and lies about who the tax cuts went to, and the corporate media, seeking favors from the administration and receiving them, allow him to get by with it.
He has recklessly plunged us into what now seems an endless foreign war and spoken falsely about the causes. Those who point out his prevarications and misjudgments are accused of treason and cowardice by his followers. He has permitted war profiteers to flourish, and those who criticize the looting are told by the vice president to go f*** themselves, or, worse, to go to France.
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In every way, the Bush administration has been a disaster. He has transformed a $5.6 trillion projected surplus into a $5.2 trillion projected deficit. His administration will be the first since Herbert Hoover’s to show a net loss in American jobs, and those that remain are mostly low-paying service jobs. The high-paying positions go overseas, and the American corporations that send them there receive tax breaks for doing so.
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He has been called the most dangerous president in American history, with his preemptive wars, his restriction of civil liberties, his willingness to merge church and state, his plans to "privatize" (dismantle) Social Security and Medicare, and it is no exaggeration. A popular political button says "Anybody but Bush."
But John Kerry is more than just anybody. He is a man who has fought for his country in Vietnam and the United States Senate, and a man who can admit error when he’s wrong. Bush never does.
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One candidate is large-hearted and far-sighted, seeing the world as it is and as it could be. The other is deficient in vision and compassion, seeing nothing and imagining nothing outside his small circle of ideologues, demagogues and corporate chiselers. The choice is clear.
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