Reply #4: Dear Troubled

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Ask your friend to list two or three of the most important issues to him -- the things that most influence who he decides to vote for.

Then ask him to tell you what he wants the president -- any president -- to do about those issues. For instance, if he says fiscal responsibility is a big issue, he might then say he expects the president to hold down spending and not run up the deficit.

And then proceed to explain how Kerry would better achieve those goals than Bush.

Ask him to list one or two qualities that he most admires in Bush. If he says he admires his decisiveness, tell him to read the story on Salon's site today about how horribly he micromanaged and fucked up the Fallujah operation, resulting in the waste of Marine lives. Show him the comments from Marine Gen. James Conway as he turned over command last week.