Posted on 11/03/2004 4:00:57 AM PST by Chi-townChief
This one's for the Undecideds. If you're planning to vote today and you haven't made up your mind, here are 50 reasons not to vote for President Bush.
Osama bin Laden: Looking rested, fit and loony. Still not captured.
Bush just says "Yes" to attending fund-raisers.
Bush says "No" to attending military funerals.
He's not much of a reader. Said he doesn't read newspapers, and didn't bother to read an August 2001 brief titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside U.S."
He's the president of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Morris and Ann Coulter.
Wore a flight suit, landed on the deck of the USS Lincoln, stood in front of a "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner and declared, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," as if he were starring in a Michael Bay movie.
Since then, thousands of Americans and Iraqis have been killed.
Said "Internets" in a way that made us wonder if he's ever been on the Internet.
Claimed a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.
America was under attack, and he just kept reading along with "The Pet Goat."
More than 45 million Americans don't have health care coverage.
The future makeup of the Supreme Court is at stake.
If you're a woman or a minority, how can you possibly rationalize voting for Bush?
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."
Doesn't know if gays choose to be gay, or are born that way.
In the first debate, he told us that being president is hard work.
He also said he knows war is hell because he's seen it on TV.
Doesn't understand how stem cell research works.
Doesn't want to expand stem cell research.
At one point he had spent 40 percent of his presidency at Camp David, his Texas ranch or his Kennebunkport, Maine, retreat.
John Ashcroft.
Donald Rumsfeld.
Dick Cheney.
Couldn't have cared less as the FCC ran roughshod over free speech and actively encouraged a new era of censorship in America.
He won't get fooled again
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
Never fully explained his National Guard Service, and stood mute as Republicans produced factually challenged ads attacking John Kerry's war heroism.
Abu Ghraib.
That Alfred E. Neuman debate face smirk.
Unemployment rate on Inauguration Day: 4.2 percent. Unemployment rate today: 5.4 percent.
Net job loss since Bush took office: nearly 1 million.
A Homeland Security effort that included searches of 90-year-olds and the confiscation of millions of pocket knives, knitting needles and sharp thingies.
The backdoor draft.
Abused and neglected the environment on dozens of fronts, from weakening clean air standards to increasing logging in protected areas to opposing legislation requiring better fuel efficiency in cars to easing protection on some 200 million acres of public land.
Medicare "reform": a disaster.
In 2003, the president proposed cutting $1.3 billion in veterans' health care and cutting combat bonus pay by one third.
Favors a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, in part because it will "protect the sanctity" of marriage between a man and a woman. Yes, because the likes of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are such better role models than a gay couple who have been living together in a loving relationship for years.
It is what it is
"This is historic times."
Never adequately explained that mysterious bulge in his back.
Has a snickering, dismissive attitude toward any nation that doesn't bow to his policies.
Budget surplus when he took office: $281 billion. Budget deficit today: $412 billion.
Failed to equip some troops in Iraq with adequate armor and weapons.
Tax cuts for the wealthy.
The federal minimum wage has been $5.15 since the late 1990s. The cost of just about everything has gone up since the late 1990s.
He's the outsource president.
"We all thought there was weapons there. . . . My opponent thought there was weapons there."
No Child Left Behind has left behind millions of children.
Based on Bush's comments in the third debate, he loathes the entire state of Massachusetts.
Has used 9/11 as a springboard to strip away more of our individual freedoms than any president ever.
Do you really need a flu shot this year? Come on, get tough!
The man running against him is smarter, calmer, more sophisticated, more tolerant, more interested in civil rights and better equipped to lead this country out of a war and into the future.
God bless America.
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CHICAGOLAND PING
Holy smokes! That does it, I'm gonna vote for Kerry!
:)
Good God! I didn't realize that was a screed from a "Professional Writer"-- I thought it was the usual mish-mash of talking points from an email.
And yet, he won a Dem-destroying mandate.
50 Reasons to Vote for President Bush
http://www.americandigest.org/mt-archives/002445.php
Another reason I stopped watching or reading him and Ebert.
Another looney leftist who doesn't bother to listen, or read the facts, himself!
Guess what numbnuts???...you lost...L.O.L.
Dopey Roper and Ebert are just BEGGING for Matt and Trey to attack them on South Park. I'd love to see them literaly depict Roeper as Ebert's hand puppet, and when they pan a softcore gay film Mr.Garrison directed for being pro-Log Cabin Republican, it's a battle to the death between Roeper and Mr.Hat.
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