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Make mine without ketchup
Joe Piazzisi
Jacob Ray
The Clackamas Print
The Clackamas Print
You don’t want to vote for George W. Bush, so
you’ve decided that you’re going to vote for the other
guy, the other guy being John Kerry. But is John Kerry
really the answer, or is he just the lesser of two
evils?
John Kerry is a guy who just can’t
make up his mind on where he stands on
the issues. I mean, he changes his mind
more then J. Lo changes husbands. He’s
a flip-flopper.
First off, this guy got out of the
military early so he could run for con
gress. He started out using the stance
as a war hero, but when that didn’t
work he switched to an anti-war pro
tester. Even early on in the democratic
primaries he supported the war on
Saddam, until he saw how successful
Howard Dean had become; and (sur
prise!) all the sudden he was an anti-war
candidate.
Kerry does a whole lot of talking about
how it was a mistake to go into Iraq, but
according to a whole list of flip-flops on the
Bush campaign website, Kerry has supported the war on
numerous occasions. During the first presidential
debate, Kerry said that knowing what the president
knew, he wouldn’t have authorized the use of force. The
president has described just one sort of mistake, but
about two months before that he said that yes, he
would’ve voted for authority because he believes it’s the
“right authority for a president to have.” I swear this guy
is more of a spectator then a candidate; he is just going
with the popular opinion.
John Kerry is not a leader. He’s been in the Senate
for 20 years and has passed only two bills. That’s about
one bill a decade. Isn’t a leader supposed to support
issues he cares about and get
bills through, or at least do his
best to try? I wish I could skip
work and get paid for it.
John Kerry says he repre
sents the middle class, but this i |
guy is not middle class. This *]|
guy married into money. His
wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, is the
heiress to the Heinz ketchup
company.
That’s
millions, if not
billions, of dol
lars. The number
57 will be a very
lucky number for
this guy.
In preparing to
write this I asked
quite a few people
why they’re voting for
Kerry, and the most
common response I got
back was because he’s not Bush.
That’s exactly what I figured.
That’s the main reason I was vot
ing for him. Now I’m not sure. So
if you do vote for
Kerry, try to
find a better
reason than
just because
he’s
not
Bush. It may
Sb
be a hard
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task.
Everyone knows that famous line by Nadia in
American Pie. “The term is, how you say,
‘shaved’?” Meaning without Bush! I for one think
Nadia is on to something.
This is, if you couldn’t
already tell, a bashing on our
President Bush. This isn’t
going to be brutal or inhumane.
I will be showing you some of our
president’s records and accomplish
ments. This information was provid
ed by PoliticalHell.com.
Bush has the most pri
vate bankruptcies and fore-
3H closures filed in a 12 month
> I period by a president. With
so many resourses how
could he fail so often? In
addition to his personal fail
ures it reflects the biggest
drop of the U.S. stock market
in our history. Do they go hand in hand? I would
think they do.
Bush has taken the most days on vacation in a
one year period as president. Shortly after he
presided over the worst security failure in U.S. his
tory. Negligence? Yes. If you don’t know what’s
going on, it’s because Bush has the least amount of
press conferences than any president. If there was
a press conference, you probably missed it due to
lack of power. Bush presided over the biggest ener
gy crisis history and refused to intervene when cor
ruption was revealed. He also presided over the
highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
Bush broke more international treaties than any
president. He was also die first president
to order an unprovoked, pre-emp
tive attack and military occupa
tion of a sovereign nation.
According to PoliticalHell.com,
71% of Europeans view Bush’s
presidency as the biggest threat
to world peace. Are you starting
‘ to see a trend in this at all?
After joining the Texas
Air National Guard, he refused to
take a drug test, or answer any ques
tions on drug use. By joining the
National Guard
he
avoided
Ik combat duty in
Jjk Vietnam—yet
■Bhe is willing to
JP^send you over
seas to fight!
Bush has made
Texas one of the most
polluted states in the Union. In
the first year of Bush’s term, two
million Americans lost their jobs, yet
Bush protected his friends at Enron
and Halliburton against investigation
or prosecution.
Think things through when you vote,
leave vou with a
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