Here's my opinion (not debatable...not said to piss anyone off...just mine...so, don't get your panties in a bunch over it!)...

John Kerry served in a war that he disagreed with wholeheartedly, but he loved his country and he served! He didn't get his daddy to get him out of it! He volunteered! He voiced his opinion of the war...loud and clear! He voiced his distaste of how the war was conducted and what the men and women who served in it with him were compelled, and even expected or ordered, to do. He fought in battle instead of hiding behind his family connections and avoiding it! And, to top it all off...for shame on him...he spoke out against the war! OMG! Well...it was a fucked up war! And...some people did some really shitty things in the name of said war. And...he spoke aloud about the really shitty things he saw and experienced, because he was actually there to see them and experience them...not off, who knows where, donning a uniform and pretending to be serving, while having his records shuffled so that he got no where near a bomb or bullet. John Kerry was "in the trenches"!!!!!!!

That said...I cannot (and never did) vote for a man who can sling mud at his competition while never answering the questions posed to him...ie: Why didn't you serve in Vietnam? How come we can't find some of your records? Etc...etc. (you all know the questions that have been avoided or swept under the rug).

We have a record high deficit! Why won't GWB address that? I have NO IDEA how he can justify it and I doubt he does either. Matter of fact...I can't even follow one of his speeches fore all the misprounounced/out of context/3rd grade level/smirking/bumbling/garble he presents to us as his "plan" for a better America. He hasn't had a plan of his own in his head since his coke days (how to score it) and how he can drive drunk and get away with that too! And...if I have to take four more years of "nucular", I'll jump off this planet! It's pronounced "nu-cle-ar" mother fucker! Get it right!

*looks down at the soapbox that slid under my feet*

Oops! Anyway...I'm for stem cell research...I'm pro-choice and I NEVER want to go back to the days before Roe vs. Wade...I think our deficit is out of control and on an even worse downhill spiral, and future generations shouldn't have to take this record burden...I want to talk about the conditions of the country today, not 20 years ago when we have no control over what is already done...I want the problems addressed and I want to hear concise plans for how to get out of this trouble we are in (ie:deficit, end to the war, health care, future scientific research, keeping good paying jobs in this country...etc.)...I think John Kerry has better ideas on how to do this and I think he is more in touch with the common people and their concerns than GWB is. Matter of fact...I think GWB is only in touch with the voices in his head! I don't think he has a clue of how "the other half" lives, but from what he reads from his speech maker's, and I really don't think he understands/absorbs/comprehends what he is reading...because he is trying too hard to enunciate without flubbing it again. Notice...I said "trying to enunciate"!

Geezzzzz...ok...I'm done and I think I made my opinion clear! I'm voting for Lilith!

LOL!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

The best news is that this election will soon be behind us!

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Eudaimonia

The ONLY thing that I can hear when you turn on the radio or TV is about the election. This next five days are ones I’d be willing to give up if they were past. I’m as tired as everybody of hearing about it. That understood, I will share my “opinion” of the outcome of this upcoming election.

I use my own sources for information about events when they are not happening in a “routine” manner and this election is ANYTHING but routine. When I want to get a feel of what the CURRENT amount of manufacturing activity is in my area, I DO NOT go to the “experts”. I ask the truck drivers. They KNOW how much material is being moved.

When I want to know the current public opinion about something, I do not rely on a professional polltakers that asks strangers questions. I ask a person that talks to a lot of people in a comfortable setting and where they will share their honest, personal feelings instead of academic or emotional statements. I ask my barber what’s on peoples mind.

Here is my forecast, not based on what I would like or not like to happen, or what issues we may come after. John Kerry will take it and not by a narrow margin. The election will be over and decided by Wednesday night indisputably.

Personally, I’m casting my Secret vote for Victoria. :lust:

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For the first time in my life i am not going to vote, because i don't think any of the candidates will do a good job. we have seen how well "W" listens to what the people of America want. we have be shown that kerry isn't to be trusted at his word...either that or he os so foregetful that he forgets which lie he told and to whom it was told. if it seems i am disillusioned with the current state of our government you are absolutely correct. i would like to have someone stand up and tell me what they truly believe and what they truly intend to do to fix the problems regardless if i agree with them or not. i owuld vote for someone i disagree with, before i would vote for someone i don't trust.

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one for all, and all for me!

Lixy---You're right!If it wasn't for John Kerry,I'd have forgotten about all of those ears,that me & my buddies cut off.Also about the huts that we burned,
the animals,that we shot for fun,the portable telephone wires,etc.It's a good
thing that he could see,what was happening on land,from his Swift Boat.By
the way,it was a conflict,not a war!Just like the Korean Conflict,not the Korean War!They made a BIG deal about 1000 deaths so far.There was a time
in VN,when we had that many deaths a DAY!All for nothing!!!! Irish
P.S.Am I bitter?YES!!!!As long as everyone is throwing in their $.02,I figured,
Why not mine.Why not us,worked for the Red Sox.

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Irish---Better to be dead & cool,then alive & uncool!
(Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man)

John Kerry served just four(yes4) month in VN, he was given a medical discharge after being shot in the foot, reports say it was an american bullet that was removed from his foot. That report came out in the mid 70's. Did he shot himself?? We will never know. But I did not shot any babies.

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*stands up and gives Lixy a Standing O..( the good kind of course) and offeres her a cold drink*

I couldn't agree more.


~Eliza

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"Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy" ~Anaïs Nin


"The full moon is calling, the fever is high.
And the wicked wind whispers and moans.
You got your demons, you got desires
Well, I got a few of my own"
~The Eagles

I would have thought in a Pixies world bush was always a winner....

Galatea,

Well, there are Bushes and then there are bushes...

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Eudaimonia

Seems timely

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Vigil, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would take it.

The specimen ballot arrived yesterday.


The layout is as it will appear on the voting machines here in Baltimore, with the candidates on the left and the charter changes & bond issues on the right; so anyone who takes a look at it should recognize what they see in the voting booth. The voting location address is provided, and underneath that is the time it is open.

At the bottom is the “Instructions for Voting”, and underneath that is “Write-In Instructions”. There is a – brief – description of each of the charter changes & bond issues.


Quite well done. I do believe someone at the Board of Election of Baltimore listened to some of the complaints from last time!

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Eudaimonia

15 minutes before the polls close!

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R.I.P.

DAM THE MAN!

It looks like my barber is full of shit.

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It's a gloomy morning for me! Damn you...Ohio!!!!

And jseal...at the bottom of our ballots (here in N.E. Pa.) we had a box one could check that actually stated [X I have not checked any of the boxes above and therefore I am not voting for any candidate or issue]...

I stood in line for 2 and 1/2 hours to cast my vote. Why in the world would anyone check that box at the bottom of the ballot??????

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

LixyChick,

I would guess that doing so would – in the event of a recount - prevent any political activist from assigning that vote to any candidate. I’m with you on this one; it isn’t something I would do, but many people do many things I wouldn’t do.

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Eudaimonia