Perfectly Positive Primary Politics~~In Their Words and Other's

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Sunnygal41

I always believe that it is best to let someone's actions speak for them, for they are louder than words, most of the time........and that Dennis won the Gandhi Peace Award for 2003, tells us alot about him, so, in honor I post here, Dennis's speech in acceptance of the Gandhi Peace Award.....................

Dennis Kucinich?s Acceptance Speech for the 2003 Gandhi Peace Award

I'm glad to have this moment to be with you and to express first of all my gratitude for being the recipient of the 2003 Gandhi Peace Award. It's very humbling to have my name associated with the name of a true visionary, of someone whose life was a gift to the world, and whose life many of us in public careers try to emulate. And I want to thank all of you who work to keep this fine organization going. When I first arrived, I had the opportunity to speak to many of you about your own commitments, about your work. And it's especially humbling to have the opportunity to share this evening with you, because this is your life's work too. Your life's work is dedicated to the active work on behalf of peace. There are some who think that peace is somehow a static activity. Far from it. It's a dynamic expression of the possibilities of human aspiration. For those of you who came in from New York today, who participated in the march, thank you. Please join me in thanking [much applause].

"Out on the edge of darkness there lies the peace train.
Peace train, take this country, come take me home again."

Thirty years ago Cat Stevens wrote that song. And it's interesting how you can almost hear the rhythms come back at this moment: "Out on the edge of darkness." We look at the edge of darkness out across this water?I'm looking at the beautiful illumined gazebo, and I think of what we can do to send light to the Persian Gulf this evening.

The psalms have a phrase in Latin: "Emitte lucem tuam." Send forth your light. And we so need to do that at this moment, so that we can describe the entire Persian Gulf in light this evening, and to send the light of peace in that region. To take the light of peace which is in our hearts, and extend that light, and that love, and that compassion. From my studies of the Scriptures and the Gospel of St. John, it begins, in the early verses, it speaks of the light shining in the darkness. "And the darkness grasp it not.? Light always shines in the darkness. And though this darkness has dropped upon our country, upon our Constitution, upon our highest aspirations for America, upon our historic traditions?the light of truth will shine in that darkness, and the darkness will neither comprehend nor overwhelm it. So we are called upon at this moment, to be witnesses for peace, for truth, for light, for love, for compassion, and for the potential of humanity to evolve from a condition where some believe that war is inevitable, to a condition where our knowledge that peace is inevitable becomes the defining paradigm of a new century and a new world.

How do we get to that point? Today we're being offered a competing vision. One vision holds America as a nation involved in a Manichean struggle at war with the forces of evil. Gandhi of course said the only evil that exists in the world is that which is rattling around in our own hearts. Yet there are those who have described these images of evil, and have projected those images, as though on a large screen; and have tried to vivify them; have created enemies. That philosopher created by Walt Kelly named Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us!" And so this vision which is emerging from smoke and fire, digitized visions projected on our television screens today, phantasmagoria, garish phosphorescence projected into our psyches, into our hearts, creating despair, creating a vision of the world disintegrating. Not the first time this has happened in human experience, but the first time we've seen it coming from our nation waging an aggressive war. Almost a hundred years ago, William Butler Yeats described the Second Coming:

"Turning and turning, in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
All things fall apart. The center cannot hold."

He wrote about an era that presaged disintegration, that presaged war, not only in Ireland but later on a world war. And today we're looking at a world where the center is not holding. Where this world view of America at war is becoming a doctrine, or reflects and derives from a doctrine, that paradoxically would be what we expect to secure our country. A national security strategy which calls for America to be the first to attack. To work preemptively. To work alone and apart from the world. To proceed unilaterally. Such a doctrine is the product of a world view which is compartmentalized, the product of dichotomous thinking, of us versus them. And carries with it the ultimate consequence of war. Because then, "this town's not big enough for both of us." And so when might makes right, what of international law? When might makes right, what of morality? When might makes right, then the sword shall be the only measure of justice. The nuclear posture review is a continuation of a national security strategy which calls for first strike use of nuclear weapons. Reversing 60 years of painstaking efforts toward nuclear disarmament?nearly 60 years. The doctrine of "Shock and Awe," which we're hearing so much about these days, was taken off the shelf of the National Defense University's war studies program, and represents a selection of military strategies, all under the title of "Shock and Awe," which celebrate the various glories and desirability of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Tokyo firebombing, the B-2 bombing of Vietnam, the idea being that?and I've read the doctrine and I would urge you all to read it?the idea being that if you can create so much damage to a civilian population, as the dropping of the atomic bomb did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that people are just shocked?psychologically, physically shocked. And they're in awe. What kind of a world view or vision would want to create a doctrine which would bring fear to people all over the world? Which would raise fear to an almost biblical proportion? Which would make fear on the level of a deity?

Now we know from our studies of the Hindu religion, that the forces of destruction and the forces of creation exist simultaneously. Shiva and Vishnu exist simultaneously. We also know that we have the opportunity to be able to determine which of those forces work through us: the forces of destruction or the forces of creation. Granted, at any point in our lives, they may be working their way simultaneously. However, as a nation, America at this very moment has become an agency of destruction in the world. As a member of Congress, I've found it daunting and even heartbreaking to see this process that pulls people in as though it were some kind of a magnetic pulsation, and causes people to support war, either through their active participation or through their silence. We search for historical antecedents, and we sometimes find them in chilling ways. Lately I've been talking to many historians who draw comparisons to the 1930s. A world view is being offered where will trumps love. Where what the philosopher Eric Fromm called the anatomy of human destructiveness is working its way through official government policy. Where all of the work to celebrate the human condition is being trashed in favor of a doctrine of control.

We know what the darkness looks like. And now let's talk about what the light that we wish to describe looks like.

The light of peace can be brought into this world and exist in this world through compassion, acceptance, tolerance that's shared. And it?s shared through affirming international structures of cooperation and governance. The importance of a United Nations is so much more evident at this moment. We realize that we're all connected, that we?re all one! My politics arises from an holistic world view: we?re interconnected, we're interdependent. What affects me affects you. It goes beyond the I-thou of Martin Buber and goes to the connectivity of "we are all one" that informed Gandhi's essential philosophy. Because when you wage war under those circumstances, it is not an act merely of homicide?it is an act of suicide. Because we're attacking ourselves. Because our brothers and sisters in Iraq are receiving the bombs. The world vision of peace can be affirmed through going back to the work that so many of us have pursued over a lifetime for nuclear disarmament. David Cortright and others have made it a life's work to implement the nonproliferation treaty. The United States can once again take a leading role in the world, in working not only for nuclear nonproliferation, but in taking a leading role in getting rid of all nuclear weapons. We have an obligation to do that. We have an obligation to future generations to do that. We have an obligation to reimplement the antiballistic missile treaty which Vladimir Putin himself took office ready to support. We have an obligation to recommit to a test ban. To begin to build down and eliminate the production of nuclear weapons. We?re going in an opposite direction at this very moment, but we can once again gain that moral authority in the world. The weapons of mass destruction begin in our consciousness. And they're our projections in physical form. The splitting of the atom was a split in consciousness in this society. And we need to heal our nation and the world, through creating a vision of a world as one. And a vision of the world as one has no room for nuclear weapons. There are 12 nations which either possess or are trying to acquire nuclear weapons. Twenty nations either possessing or trying to acquire biological weapons. Twenty-six nations either possessing or trying to acquire chemical weapons. Twenty nations either possessing or trying to acquire missile technologies to deliver those weapons. Pandora's box has been opened.

But there is a power greater than all of those weapons. And it's the power of love through which the human heart expresses itself. [applause] The advancing tide is toward human unity! We saw it reflected at the beginning of the new millennium which so many of us celebrated in the year 2000. Where despite the dire predictions, people gathered peacefully all around the world, without incidents! Celebrating our humanity! Proving that we can get together around the world peacefully!

The advancing tide is toward human unity, and the technology of our society has reflected that through the connectivity of the internet, through communications, through transportation, and through trade. Every one of us has had the opportunity to connect, in our lifetimes, with people, so we realize that we truly are a global village. This thinking that separates us from other nations and other people is archaic! And so as we offer a competing vision for the world, that competing vision can seek to make war itself archaic. [applause] And that, my friends, is what has animated the idea of a Department of Peace. To take the work of Gandhi, and the work of Dr. King, and the work of other great religious leaders, and to work to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society.

This competing vision, this alternative vision, this light-filled vision which we offer, looks at our own society with love and with the understanding that we can be more than we are and better than we are. We look at the pathologies in our society of domestic violence, of spousal abuse, of child abuse. Of violence in our schools, of gangs, of police-community relations challenges, of violence against gays and violence against all types of minorities. And we begin to develop structures within our society to teach children mutuality, reciprocity, sharing, peace-giving. Some communities are already doing that. To use the very power of government itself to institutionalize that type of an approach in a society. Think for a moment how a 400 billion dollar defense budget informs the consciousness of our nation. Think for a moment, how spending anywhere from 99 billion to 1.9 trillion dollars on a war in Iraq, plus occupation, plus reconstruction, how that would inform the consciousness of our nation. Think for a moment how the agenda of America has been set. Through spending hundreds of billions in a cold war. Through spending hundreds of billions in hot wars. Through being prepared to spend up to one and a half trillion dollars on a missile defense system, which doesn't work, and even if it did, we wouldn?t want it to. Think of, instead, offering the possibility of a structure within our government that would begin to offer another way, another path. That's what the Department of Peace seeks to do. On an international level, it looks at mediation, intervention nonviolently, it looks at issues of human scarcity, of poverty, and those conditions which give rise to the kind of despair which produces war. War is not inevitable! Peace is inevitable, but we have to insist on the power of our humanity to bring forth this new possibility. "Come, my friends! 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world!" said the poet Tennyson. "Come, my friends! 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world!" So while the lights twinkle across this beautiful point, while the bombs drop, and missiles are launched into the city of our brothers and sisters, we realize that we have this moment in time and space where we can change the outcome! Where we are not stuck! Where we can use this power which is inside of us, this light inside of our hearts! And let that light shine, let it shine in this darkness! Let it shine in the chaos! Let it shine?and let that shine so that this alternative vision of peace, which is the vision of which our lives are made, that this alternative vision of peace, which can be the vision of which our country expresses itself, that this alternative vision of peace, that reflects the life's work of so many who have come before us, that this shall be a vision through which the creativity, and through which the transformational energy that will bring us this new world, can be achieved.

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

TD

Joe Lieberman:
Doesn't stand a chance, far from perfect, but he stands out to me as someone who actually remembers his own past remarks, positions, affliations, endorsements and senate votes.
SixofNine

Thanks for participating Seven, Sunnygal, and TD.
Deaners, Bushies, Edwardians, Sharptonians, let's hear some good words about your choice too. Cuz you know I'm bringin' out more of the good stuff for Clark.
Where possible, please excerpt (or at least highlight) the parts that speak to you, and leave us a link to the rest for really long endorsements or speeches.

SixofNine

Just came across this one on the Clark blog:

I Met One of the General's Soldiers Today

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Today I went out in the subzero Indiana temperatures to collect the required number of signatures to get the General on the primary ballot. Another volunteer and myself camped out in front of the post office in the small town of Hobart. About two hours into our collection, a man drove up and immediately walked over to me.
"Are you the ones trying to get General Clark on ballot?" he asked.
I was a little surprised at his knowledge of what we were doing, but quickly recovered, "Yes we are," I answered, "Would you be willing to sign?"
"There's no one else I would sign for," he stated, "Captain Clark was my unit commander in Vietnam."
I was speechless. The only thing I could spit out was something along the lines of "Wow." I eventually did get out the fact the General had earned a Silver Star in Vietnam.
The man looked me dead in the eyes and said, "I know, I was there that day."
I'll never forget the look on his eyes when he told me that. The pain was obvious and I couldn't imagine what he had gone through; he almost brought tears to my eyes. This man went on to tell me that Captain Clark was a great leader for his unit in Vietnam. He said that his experiences in the jungle with the then Captain and the experiences of that day were all he needed to convince him that General Clark should be president.
This five minute conversation with this humble veteran reminded me why I felt so passionate about what I'm doing. It made every rejection I received today worth it. I didn't mind the fact that the wind chill was close to -20. Any reassurance I'd ever need as to why I'm spending all of my free time working for the General, I received today. All of the sacrifices I'm making right now are minuscule compared to those of the General and the somber veteran I met today in the tiny town of Hobart, Indiana.

jst2laws

OK, I have to say something good about Sharpton.
He is funnier than all the rest put together.
But a sense of humor does not necesarily make a good president.
Not to worry, I don't think he has a chance.

Chris,
Liberal or conservative -- Democrat or Republican. Doesn't matter. Just be ... polite.
Hey, Without "polite" in a "political" discussion all you have is "ical".
Jst2laws
Seven

Giving America Back Its Future
Remarks/Speech by John Kerry
January 14, 2004

Davenport, IA -
As you?ve heard me say before, Teresa and I have loved this process ? we?ve loved the way the Iowa caucuses challenge you, not just to think on your feet, but to bear your soul.
I?ve learned a lot here. Particularly here in Iowa where democracy is lived out in living rooms and VFW halls, campaigns are a time of listening and learning - and this one has been for me. I head into the last five days before we caucus more convinced than ever that we have to change politics in this country and the radically wrong direction of our nation.
And I come into these last days convinced that we owe you a politics and a dialogue as good and as honest as the questions you ask us when we visit your homes, your community centers, and your Elks Lodges.
Just last night in Vinton, a woman deciding whether to caucus raised her hand and sad to me, ?we hear about these issues every four years. How do we know you?ll be any different ? everyone talks about healthcare, everyone talks about jobs, how are you going to do it??
I don?t offer her my resume, I offer her my gut ? my values, my determination that?s guided me ever since I came home from Vietnam. I have spent 35 years fighting for the values you and I believe in, standing up for people, and taking on powerful interests ? as a matter of conviction, as a matter of duty, fighting the fights that are hard.
I stood up to Richard Nixon when I came back from Vietnam and I led thousands of veterans to the Mall to end that war. They tried to kick us off, and they took us to the Supreme Court of the United States to do it. We stood our ground and we said: Mr. President, you sent us 8000 miles away to sleep in the jungles of Vietnam; we have earned the right to sleep on this Mall and talk to our Senators.
As Lieutenant Governor, I took on some of the biggest utilities in the country and led the way to the first national plan to crackdown on acid rain and save our lakes and rivers and streams.
As a Senator, I stood up and led the fight to stop Ronald Reagan?s illegal, secret, unconstitutional war in Central America.
I led the fight with John McCain to change and finally make peace with Vietnam.
I fought against Newt Gingrich?s effort to decimate the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and I?m proud that I led and we won the fight to stop the Bush Administration from drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Reserve.
I?m asking you to measure the candidates not just by what we say, but by what we have done ? because the fights ahead are going to be as tough as they come ? the fight to make our workplace fair, the fight to lift up the quality of life for all Americans, the struggle for a foreign policy that makes us safe.
Five days from now, Iowa will set the course for the most important election of our generation.
One choice is fundamental: I?m running for President so you will have a President who?s on your side, and who will take on the powerful interests that stand in your way.
I?m running for President to free our government from the dominance of the lobbyists, the drug industry, big oil, and the insurance companies and HMOs ? so that we can give America back its future and its soul.
I?m running to restore fairness and economic justice ? and repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy so we can invest in education and health care for all.
As I?ve said many times in recent days, in community halls, workplaces, and homes across Iowa, we are here not just to count down the days until the start of the nominating process and the Iowa caucuses; we are here to mark the beginning of the end of the Bush presidency.
This election is not just about which candidate wins, but about whether we will win the fight to put opportunity and security in the hands of the many and not the few.
Look at what is happening to family farms ? agribusiness literally spreading across the land, vertical ownership constantly on the rise, hog lots that poison our streams, unwanted, out of control, degrading the value of property and the quality of life itself. Why? All of us know why. Because the power of special interests is dominating the choices of Iowans and Americans.
It is happening across the nation, in every area of concern. Add up the deficit; count the cost that working families are paying while the privileged ride high and reap all the rewards. Three million people have lost their jobs. For two million people, health insurance has been blown away. Seniors have had their retirements stolen by Enron and Worldcom, by financial scandal and a marketplace where this President licenses a creed of greed. And when we add it all up, as we will and I will all across this country if I am the nominee of our party, we are going to make it clear to America that the one person in the United States who deserves to be laid off is George W. Bush.
He has given working people the worst deal of modern times ? and the worst record on jobs of any President since Herbert Hoover. Today in America, people are out of work or working harder and longer and earning less.
Last weekend, the President of the United States gave a speech suggesting that his tax cuts have created an enormous economic recovery in America. Yes, it?s a recovery if you?re a Republican with a rich stock portfolio; it?s a recovery for Wall Street and a 40% increase in the profit of corporations.
But for the unemployed, the Bush Administration said they would create 250,000 jobs last month. And how many did they create? A grand total of 1000 jobs. That leaves them 249,000 jobs short. And while corporate profits soar and layoffs continue, the income of working people has dropped. This truly is a Bush-league recovery.
At the same time, the economy of special privilege, special favors and tax giveaways for those at the top has been paid for by the cynical neglect of education. Ask the teachers of Iowa what?s happened with this President?s promises. We have new requirements imposed on schools, but not the new resources needed for schools. This Administration has the money to lavish billions in subsidies on oil companies in their energy bill, but they say we can?t afford to pay for excellence in education. I say we can?t afford not to.
As a former prosecutor, I used to talk to kids who lost their futures early in life. Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old, they were in the criminal justice system. Today, building prisons is a growing industry; I?m tired of us running a farm system for prisons in America. We have to stop being a country that?s willing to spend $50,000 a year to house someone in jail for the rest of their life, when we should be investing $10,000 a year in Head Start, Early Start, Smart Start, and early childhood education.
George W. Bush has an open door and an open treasury for the likes of Halliburton, but he has turned his back on our children and turned his back on our teachers. And in this campaign, I intend to criss-cross this country and hold him accountable for making a mockery of the words "leave no child behind."
I also intend to expose the despicable tactics George Bush, Karl Rove and their disciples on the radical right. They do not really defend their politics of privilege on its own terms; instead, they take refuge in false appeals to patriotism. We do not need ? and we will not accept ? lectures on patriotism from the likes of Steve King and Tom DeLay. Not when they cut $1.8 billion on the VA budget. Not when there are 40,000 veterans waiting six months to have a doctor sign off on their prescription drugs for the first time. Not when this Administration denies 400,000 veterans as a whole category access to the VA. I will stand up, on behalf of our party, our country, our flag, and our values ? and I will make it clear that the first definition of patriotism is keeping faith with those who wore the uniform of our country.
So we must take our stand as Democrats ? fighting for people, determined to break the grip of powerful interests.
Let me tell you what I will do in the first 100 days of my presidency. I will sign an executive order that bans anyone from government from going into lobbying for five years, so that public office once again becomes a public trust, not a means to peddle influence and access. I will also require every single meeting between a public official and a lobbyist to be a matter of official public record. It is time to give the people?s government back to the people.
And the very first piece of legislation that I will introduce will end the shame of the United States of America being the only industrial nation on the face of this earth not to understand that health care is not a privilege for the wealthy or the powerful; it is a right for all our people.
As I have said before, this is personal for me; last year at this time, I faced a health care crisis. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. But I was lucky and I?m cured today because I had some of the best health care in the world. I had it for two reasons. I could afford it and I?m a United States Senator. Thanks to you, every one of you in Iowa and everyone in America, Senators and Congressman give themselves excellent health care, and you pay for it.
Well, your family?s health is just as important as any politician?s in Washington. But in George Bush?s America, it isn?t ? because of the power of the insurance industry and the HMOs. They have blocked health care for all our people ever since Harry Truman first proposed it. We need a President who?s determined to finish Harry Truman?s mission. I will fight to cover every American; to give every American access to the same health plan as members of Congress; and, while the insurance companies may not like it, I will fight to hold down costs for the 163 million Americans who are already covered today. The average American family will save $1000 a year; the average insurance company will have to stop overcharging consumers.
The pharmaceutical companies will have to give up $139 billion in windfall profits that they just paid their lobbyists $139 million to get from this Administration and this Congress. They twisted a prescription drug benefit for seniors into a benefit for the prescription drug companies. Their bill will force seniors out of Medicare and into HMOs. But if I am President, and with your help, we will tell the profiteers who bought and paid for this bill: Forget about it. It?s over; it?s repealed ? and we?re going to replace it with a real prescription drug benefit and more affordable prescriptions. We?re going to save and strengthen Medicare.
And while we must repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, I will fight ? and I ask you to join me in fighting against ? proposals to increase taxes on the middle class. I disagree with those in my own party who are so mad at George Bush that they want to take it out on working families in Iowa by raising their taxes an average of $2,000 a year. To me, this is a matter of principle: Democrats should stand up for everyday Americans who work hard, hope for the future, and face extraordinary challenges everyday.
A government on their side will know when to take sides. So as President, I will scrub the tax code, which has grown from 14 pages to 17,000 pages, to remove every single loophole, every single incentive, every single provision that rewards Benedict Arnold CEOs and corporations for moving profits and American jobs overseas. And we?ll stop giving government contracts for companies who do wrong by their workers.
We will put an end to tax giveaways for corporations who cut back on their workers while they lavish millions on CEOs. And corporations won?t get tax breaks for CEOs million dollar retirement windfalls while they cut back on worker pension plans. We need a President who fights for a fair retirement for every family not Paradise Island for millionaires.
I will revoke every single Bush executive order that favors polluters. I will end the secret meetings and the secret energy task forces in the White House.
Next, I will propose a plan to invest in renewable fuels and new technology to make America energy independent of Mideast oil in the next 10 years. We only have 3% of the world?s oil. We can?t drill our way out of this crisis; we have to invent our way out of it. Never should young Americans in uniform ever, ever have to be held hostage to our dependence on oil in the Middle East.
We need leadership, strength and resolve to take on the special interests here at home ? and the experience and judgment to lead America in a dangerous world, in a perilous time.
We are at war today, and the whole world is looking to the United States of America. We should long ago have been negotiating bilaterally with North Korea. We should long ago have led the world to a comprehensive attack on the global threat of AIDS and the global poverty and despair that are the breeding grounds of terrorism. We should be leading the world to stop nuclear proliferation instead of advancing George Bush?s scheme to build new bunker busting nuclear weapons ? smaller and more usable nuclear bombs. If I know one thing, and so do you, the last thing we need here on this earth is more usable nuclear bombs.
George Bush has run the most arrogant, inept, reckless, and ideological foreign policy in the modern history of our country. He has overextended our troops and turned our guard and reserve into full-duty, active-duty, personnel.
My friends, we need a nominee who can stand up to this President eye to eye, toe to toe, face to face, and make it clear: We Democrats know how to make this nation of ours safe. George Bush doesn?t have the experience to be commander-in-chief. And I will tell you: I know something about aircraft carriers for real.
George Bush and Karl Rove want national security to be the central issue of this campaign. They?ve announced that they do ? and obviously they have to ? because they can?t talk about jobs. They can?t talk the environment. They can?t talk about health care. They can?t talk about keeping their promises on education. So they?re going to play the politics of fear in America. This is my reply: If George W. Bush plans to make national security the central issue in this campaign, I have three words for him that I know he understands ? bring it on.
I ask you to join this fight ? not just to defeat George Bush, but to drive the forces of greed and privilege from the precincts of power and make America work again for the people who are the heart and strength of our country. I?m asking you to join me in making our country safe again.

The Iowa caucuses don?t belong to the special interests; they belong to you. On Monday night, you can open the way to a stronger, fairer, more prosperous country ? to victory for our party and our ideals.
I ask you to vote for answers, not just anger.
I ask you, my friends in Iowa: when you go to those caucuses only days from now, don?t go there just to send America a message. Go there and send America a President of the United States.
Big Tex

Hey, Without "polite" in a "political" discussion all you have is "ical".

p-o-l-i-t-e
p-o-l-i-t ... ical
"e". Hmmmmmm. So I guess from now on it's okay to call you Stev. Sorta sounds like a Russian city. "Hitler's panzers were stopped near Stev". You know, Stev, near the Volga River.
Damn Steve, see what happens when you nail your thumb? You lose your e's. Happens every time.
imallgrowedup

Six -
Just had to pop in and say "hi"! I seriously considered doing an essay on why my candidate should be re-elected, but as the only conservative in here (and with Yeru oddly silent on the topic), I would be severely out numbered. Therefore, I'll let the rest of ya duke this one out!!!
growedup
simplesally

I thought we were supposed to vote for Jesus or the Kingdom!
I just got my voters registration card. I signed up online and now have to sign it and mail it in................so excited.
SixofNine

I seriously considered doing an essay on why my candidate should be re-elected, but as the only conservative in here (and with Yeru oddly silent on the topic), I would be severely out numbered.

But that's the beauty of this thread, you can say anything good you'd like about Bush, and no one can trash him in response. I almost hate myself for even starting it!
I just got my voters registration card. I signed up online and now have to sign it and mail it in................so excited.
It's a great feeling, ain't it Sally?

Perfectly Positive Primary Politics~~In Their Words and Other's

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