[Vision2020] One conservative's thoughts

[Carl Westberg]

This was forwarded to me, I'm taking the liberty of forwarding it to the 
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                                                     Carl Westberg Jr.



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> > The following article was just written by Charley Reese of the
> > Orlando Sentinel. If you know the writer and his strongly
> > conservative reputation, you should find it eye-opening. Note in
> > particular what he says about John Kerry. Other conservative
> > journalists such as Robert Novak and William Kristol are expressing
> > similar sentiments.
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> > VOTE FOR A MAN, NOT A PUPPET
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> > Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's
> > re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war - Dick
> > Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of
> > neo-conservative ideologues and their corporate backers.
> > I have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a
> > front-man, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his
> > administration. Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the
> > world of any president in my memory.
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> > It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the
> > plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans
> > should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke
> > more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at
> > their joint press conference recently.
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> > John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to
> > think and who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than
> > Bush's comic-book world of American heroes and foreign evildoers.
> > It's unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very
> > intelligence and refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom his
> > presidential election efforts.
> > But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he
> > observed that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what
> > never was and never will be.
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> > People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display
> > their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush.
> > Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he
> > fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice.
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> > It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to
> > vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the
> > Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign
> > outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and
> > trade deficits don't matter, and that people should not know what
> > their government is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the
> > most secretive president in the 20th century. His administration
> > leans dangerously toward the authoritarian.
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> > It's no wonder that the Justice Department has convicted a few
> > Arab-Americans of supporting terrorism. What would you do if you
> > found yourself arrested and a federal prosecutor whispers in your ear
> > that either you can plea-bargain this or the president will designate
> > you an enemy combatant and you'll be held incommunicado for the
> > duration?
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> > This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but
> > because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's
> > almost restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race.
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> > America is not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends
> > anywhere in the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the
> > Bush administration. Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans
> > found us, Israel, North Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to
> > world peace.
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> > I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a
> > man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world
> > and us with it. Go to Kerry's Web site <http://www.johnkerry.com/
> > <http://www.johnkerry.com/> >and read some of the magazine profiles
> > on him. You'll find that there is a great deal more to Kerry than the
> > GOP attack dogs would have you believe.
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> > Besides, it would be fun to have a president who plays hockey,
> > windsurfs, ride motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and
> > speaks French. It would be good to have a man in the White House who
> > has killed people face to face. Killing people has a sobering effect
> > on a man and dispels all illusions about war.
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