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Before You all get on me for wanting to vote for Bush read this. Whenever someone starts to bash Bush because I support him I simply ask them first, Why do you like Kerry?
Instead of Bashing both what do both men offer to the voters?
President Bush (I support him)
1. Taking the war to the enemy! Not afraid to do what's needed to win the war on Terror.
2. Turning the economy around. The economy has grown 4.8% in the past year, as fast as any year in nearly two decades. Productivity grew at the fastest 3-year rate in more than 50 years.
3. Able to put what's best for the country ahead of what's best for his poll results.
4. Bush’s Clear Skies legislation would dramatically improve air quality by reducing power plants’ emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), and mercury by approximately 70 percent over the next 15 years, more than any other clean air initiative. ( I bike everyday in the city and I know what breathing nasty air is like, so this legislation I support very firmly) Bush also has other environmental issues he is going to touch if elected.
Kerry (I don't support him)
1. Voted in favor of using force in Iraq (Too bad he changed his mind when the going got tuff.)
2. Against Gay Marriage (Although he's afraid to take a real stand on it. Sitting on the fence so it doesn't effect him in the polls.)
3. Voted for the increased FCC fines to crack down on indecent antics on broadcast radio and television. (OK I lied, I don't really like this, just couldn't think of a third thing I liked... Sorry, I really tried...)
I know this is alot but I really suggest reading this....
Also if Americans know there history then they should know which political party was for and against slavery 140 something odd years ago. Right now think back. Was it the Democrats who wasnted to abolish slavery? NO! It wasn't. The Democrats, the dominant political party of the time, had very little serious opposition in the years before the Republican Party was born. However, in the years before the Civil War, cracks began to develop in the Democratic Party. For the entire history of the United States, Democrats in the South succeeded in maintaining the enslavement of millions of African Americans, while Democrats in the North feared they would lose their political dominance at the national level if they opposed slavery outright. But as time wore on, northern Democrats became increasingly squeamish about preaching the value of liberty while giving tacit consent to their Democratic brethren in the South to continue human enslavement. And so, this unholy balance of power remained. All this changed as the United States steadily incorporated territories to the West. As new land was added, the Democrats in the South demanded that the new territories allow slavery. For years, the northern Democrats compromised and allowed the southern Democrats to push for slavery in new territories. But after a time, a grassroots movement sprung up in what was then the northwestern United States, consisting of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. This new movement was adamantly opposed to slavery and refused to sit back and allow the Democrats to continue spreading slavery to newly incorporated territories. This new movement was called the Republican Party.
The Republicans, or “radicals” as they were sometimes known, believed that the “slavery conspiracy” was the most serious threat to liberty and equality in existence.
Then, in 1856, pro-slavery Democrats, who were a minority in the Kansas Territory, tried to rig the vote on whether or not to have slavery in Kansas by having pro-slavery Missourians cross over and vote illegally in the elections. In response, a small guerilla war broke out between anti-slavery Republicans and pro-slavery Democrats. Relative to the enormity of the Civil War, “Bleeding Kansas” produced few casualties, but the implications were obvious. The Democrats opposed extending basic Constitutional civil rights to African Americans, while the Republican Party ferociously fought to make good the guarantee of these basic rights to African Americans.
As the Republican Party grew in the North (support in the South was non-existent), the northern Democrats realized that the anti-slavery movement was gaining in popularity in the North. Gradually, the northern Democrats shifted their positions to accommodate increased restrictions on slavery. But this was too little to late, and in 1860, the Republican nominee, Abraham Lincoln, was elected President without carrying a single state south of Maryland. The effect of Lincoln’s election was that the South seceded a short time later. Thus began the U.S. Civil War.
and remember what president ended slavery. Lincoln, and What Party was Lincoln apart of, Republican.
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