Here is a picture I found on a Libertarian website this morning.
My loyal audience has unanimously asked: "Leave aside for a second the single-issue-voter thing you have going, and tell me: is there any reason whatsoever to support the notion that The Incumbent is capable of doing the job at all, let alone with distinction? Because to me he looks like a genuinely dull-witted man with no decision-making abilities, no economic or foreign policy credentials and a collection of almost random beliefs that he is more prepared to espouse than live by."
Leaving aside my single-issue thing, I don't think there is very much to choose between them. To me they both look very much like genuinely dull-witted men with no decision-making abilities, no economic or foreign policy credentials and a collection of almost random beliefs that they are more prepared to espouse than live by. I think the difference between what their foreign policies will be in practice will not be very great, and that the anti-Bush media will be sorely disappointed by a President Kerry.
Considering them both as ciphers manipulated by faceless cabals of sinister conspirators, and attempting to put aside not only my single issue thing but fallacy number four...
...All that leaps to mind is that the Republicans have traditionally paid slightly more lip-service to trade liberalisation, which I consider the single most important factor in reducing poverty worldwide. Except, the question was 'Is there any reason to expect he will do a good job?' not, 'Is there any reason to vote for him?'
This is the only reason I can see: The American public (who are in the best position to know whether he is currently doing a good job or not) are still supporting him in roughly the same proportions they did in 2000. If he was an absolute incompetenet dropkick, this would not be the case, no matter how much he was in tune with whatever selfish blinkered Zeitgeist was dominating the country. Dubya is also (according to these poll results I just read on the web, which means they must be true) more popular than Kerry in the frontline countries in the War on Terror, Israel and Russia. They may also be blinkered and selfish and deluded; but they surely have more experience of terrorism and what to do about it than we do...
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The only way Bush can get support in the US is not by talking about his policies, but by drumming up fear. It is out of fear that he is managed to obtain 50% support of the American people.
But as a vegetarian, I can't support him for wanting to put 'dolphin safe tuna' on tuna that was caught at the expense of dolphins killed. Not only is that fraudulant, it is immoral, and a plain lie. But that is what he has lobbied to do. His administration also wants the US to bring back whaling in 2005. No thank you. He is also opposed to Embronic Stem Cell research, which would dramatically cut the need for vivisection, a science that has failed to bring badly needed cures for human beings.
I believe Kerry will win big. The polls you hear about are conducted via phones, but most young people use cell phones exclusively and are not part of those numbers. College students overwhelmingly go for Kerry, and are registering in big numbers to defeat Bush.
Hi Veggiedude! The vast floating pool of unregistered voters in the US card we don't have here in Australia, where voting is compuslory. The question will be, are there more Evangelical Christians being registered in Republican voter drives, or College students registered in Democrat voter drives?
Adult stem cells are the way to go. And genetic engineering on demand. It is just immoral to create human beings, even zygotes, for spare parts.
At the risk of appearing to be some bizarre caricature of an Australian, the only animal flesh I eat is kangaroo. I used to be a fish-only carnivore but quit eating fish about a year ago after reading in New Scientist about how unsustainable practices in the fishing industry were and decided to support the use of our bush for the harvest of native animals instead of introduced hoofed mammals...
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