Kerry Will Restore American Dignity 2004 Iconoclast Presidential Endorsement
Few Americans would have voted for George W. Bush four years ago if he had promised that, as President, he would:
-Empty the Social Security trust fund by $507 billion to help offset fiscal irresponsibility and at the same time slash Social Security benefits.
-Cut Medicare by 17 percent and reduce veterans' benefits and military pay.
-Eliminate overtime pay for millions of Americans and raise oil prices by 50 percent.
-Give tax cuts to businesses that sent American jobs overseas, and, in fact, by policy encourage their departure.
-Give away billions of tax dollars in government contracts without competitive bids.
-Involve this country in a deadly and highly questionable war, and
-Take a budget surplus and turn it into the worst deficit in the history of the United States, creating a debt in just four years that will take generations to repay.
These were elements of a hidden agenda that surfaced only after he took office. The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago,
based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda.
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Once and for all, George Bush was President of the United States on that day. No one else. He had been President nine months, he had been officially warned of just such an attack a full month before it happened. As President, ultimately he and only he was responsible for our failure to avert those attacks.
We should expect that a sitting President would vacation less, if at all, and instead tend to the business of running the country, especially if he is, as he likes to boast, a "wartime president." America is in service 365 days a year.
We don't need a part-time President who does not show up for duty as Commander-In-Chief until he is forced to, and who is in a constant state of blameless denial when things don't get done.The re-election of George W. Bush would be a mandate to continue on our present course of chaos. We cannot afford to double the debt that we already have. We need to be moving in the opposite direction.
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