[Richard-SIA]

Finally, a thoughtful response!

I was dismayed by the L--O--N--G list of new and expensive promises that Bush was making.
Sounded way too much like a liberal speech, (vote for me and I promise you even more free goodies from the public treasury) type of thing!

Remember who pays for all the entitlement programs?
Right, the WORKING tax payers.

All of these on top of a trip to Mars and the W.O.T.?

Then he followed that up by breaking into "spanish", that was just too much like pandering to illegals, and left me expecting a reprise of his ill conceived "guest worker" amnesty proposal.

I do not want to become so disgusted that I am forced to vote for a third party candidate in Nov., so I just turned it off.

[WoodstockCat]

Good deal.
if you're so DIM that you can't see national security trumps all that then take a Novemeber vacation for all I care.

[A Jovial Cad]

Thank-you for answering in depth, and specifically. I appreciate it. Though I still disagree with your take on Bush's speech, I understand your concerns about some of the domestic proposals, and respect them. I share some of those concerns.
But I respectfully submit that our focus now, in the middle of this war against Islamo-fascism, at this point in American history *MUST* be on keeping our equivalent of Winston Churchill (Bush) in office, as opposed to an obvious & confirmed 21st century equivalent of Neville Chamberlain (Kerry).
I have a wife & children I love deeply and want to see kept safe: accordingly, "domestic" concerns have pretty much fallen off of my radar screen as a major point of contention with the leadership of my Party since 9/11/01. Sorry, but that's just the way I feel.