[Vision2020] One conservative's thoughts

[Donovan Arnold]

Am I the only one that thought this email was going to be blank based on the 
title?

Donovan J Arnold

>From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] One conservative's thoughts
>Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 08:09:55 -0700
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>This was forwarded to me, I'm taking the liberty of forwarding it to the 
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>> > The following article was just written by Charley Reese of the
>> > Orlando Sentinel. If you know the writer and his strongly
>> > conservative reputation, you should find it eye-opening. Note in
>> > particular what he says about John Kerry. Other conservative
>> > journalists such as Robert Novak and William Kristol are expressing
>> > similar sentiments.
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>> > VOTE FOR A MAN, NOT A PUPPET
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>> > Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's
>> > re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war - Dick
>> > Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of
>> > neo-conservative ideologues and their corporate backers.
>> > I have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a
>> > front-man, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his
>> > administration. Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the
>> > world of any president in my memory.
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>> > It's no wonder the president avoids press conferences like the
>> > plague. Take away his cue cards and he can barely talk. Americans
>> > should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah of Jordan) spoke
>> > more fluently and articulately in English than our own president at
>> > their joint press conference recently.
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>> > John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to
>> > think and who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than
>> > Bush's comic-book world of American heroes and foreign evildoers.
>> > It's unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very
>> > intelligence and refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom his
>> > presidential election efforts.
>> > But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he
>> > observed that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what
>> > never was and never will be.
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>> > People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display
>> > their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush.
>> > Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he
>> > fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice.
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>> > It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to
>> > vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the
>> > Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign
>> > outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and
>> > trade deficits don't matter, and that people should not know what
>> > their government is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the
>> > most secretive president in the 20th century. His administration
>> > leans dangerously toward the authoritarian.
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>> > It's no wonder that the Justice Department has convicted a few
>> > Arab-Americans of supporting terrorism. What would you do if you
>> > found yourself arrested and a federal prosecutor whispers in your ear
>> > that either you can plea-bargain this or the president will designate
>> > you an enemy combatant and you'll be held incommunicado for the
>> > duration?
>> >
>> > This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but
>> > because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's
>> > almost restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race.
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>> > America is not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends
>> > anywhere in the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the
>> > Bush administration. Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans
>> > found us, Israel, North Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to
>> > world peace.
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>> > I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a
>> > man in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world
>> > and us with it. Go to Kerry's Web site <http://www.johnkerry.com/
>> > <http://www.johnkerry.com/> >and read some of the magazine profiles
>> > on him. You'll find that there is a great deal more to Kerry than the
>> > GOP attack dogs would have you believe.
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>> > Besides, it would be fun to have a president who plays hockey,
>> > windsurfs, ride motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and
>> > speaks French. It would be good to have a man in the White House who
>> > has killed people face to face. Killing people has a sobering effect
>> > on a man and dispels all illusions about war.
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