[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Crash

The best part about liberalism is the fact that the media has the "less informed" community convinced they shouldn't vote for Bush, but they dont know why. Most say "I'll just vote for whoever is not Bush"

why?

"well, bush lies and the economy is bad"

we've had one of the best economies in 20 years, millions of jobs have just been created.

It is true that the economy is good and that about 300,000 (not millions) jobs have been created under Bush's plans for economic recovery after the bottom fell out of the "Tech Bubble". The problem comes with a couple of areas: 1)The economy is not as good as it was under Clinton, which doesn't really mean anything since it was a false economy based on inflated stocks and had little to do with Clinton's presidency, but it is viewed that Bush ruined the economy since it dropped under his watch.

I will also agree that Bush has done a good job with creating better paying jobs, unlike what the democrats have been saying.

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=208

The real numbers say that under his administration the US has created better paying jobs and not just minimum wage ones, like Kerry has been saying.

"well, he lied about the WMD"

kerry said we needed to go after Saddam and stop his WMD, so kerry thought the same thing, probably would have done the same thing if had to choose.

It goes a lot deeper than that. The UN thought that he had them, Clinton thought that he had them and pretty much everyone thought that he had them. The argument about going to war was never about whther or not he had them, but how to go about enforcing the regulations and whether violence was the appropriate course. Why did no one doubt that he had them? In 1998 the UN found 10,000 pounds of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq, but they were not loaded into delivery systems so Iraq did not technically violate the UN regulations. The UN changed the regulations, Iraq shut down inspections by the UN, and then claimed that they destroyed the weapons without providing any proof. I could go on, but sufficed to say, Iraq had them and led the world to believe that still had them with the charade he led the UN down before the war. The question is, where are these weapons now if they're not in Iraq?

I personally will vote Bush because it's the last person the terrorists want to see in office.

Believe it or not thats actually a string selling point for me. The fact that the terrorists want Kerry to win is more of a sign I should vote Bush than anything, but I still have my reservations about Bush:

1) Trampling of the 1st amendment. His abuse of Howard Stern is unconsionable (sp?). Its not only that he made up new standards for broadcasting without telling anyone, but that it seems like these standards are selectively enforced against those that speak out against him. This smacks of fascism.

2) Spending. Since when do Republicans spend like money is going out of style??? Good lord, the budget is enormous.

3) Education. No Child Left Behind is a lot like communism in that it sounds great on paper, but no one figured out the correct way to implement it without screwing up the schools completely. This isn't just against Bush, though, as it was a bipartisan bill, with the other big proponent being Ted Kennedy. Why anyone would pass anything that fat drunken murderer supports is beyond me.