Dean's World

Ru,

Are you for real?

I mean, come on. Your question doesn't reflect even a basic understanding of how human beings work. Do you really not understand that people are quite willing to allow subservient interests take up disproportionately less of their time when more important matters are at hand? Have you somehow missed that people don't often feel the need to things that they consider less important than more pressing matters which plenty of other people have already said and which no one can reasonably be expected to have missed?

Or are you not aware that there's an election coming up?

I mean, come on. Most children (12+) I know wouldn't need to ask your question. Is it honestly meant? Are you really so ignorant of how people tend to live their lives?

If so, start watching yourself and the people around you. Understanding human beings, at least at a basic level, is a critical skill to living with them.

Chris,
I don't know which is more telling your casual offensiveness towards or your dislike and fear of, anyone or anything that remotely questions your view of the world. Of course the question wasn't entirely serious.
It was an attempt to make an ironic point about the fact that there is almost constant criticism, of the lack of balanced reporting on iraq, the election or anything else, on this site.

And I am quite interested to see does Dean or any others of the anti Kerry camp have any criticisms of President Bush?

See my point above BR

Why is anyone who question s you automatically your enemy John. I am on the side of Kerry or Bush. I don't really like either of them.

When there is so much being said here about the faults of the pro Kerry people and the media, ie lack of balance, distortion of the truth selective reporting and so on, is it so wrong of me to point some similarities.

Oh - one more deal-breaker: those who refuse to acknowledge any progress in Iraq, or who insist that we're consistently taking an unacceptably high number of casualties over there.

And another thing was there any of the original Democrat candidates that anyone out there would have liked

Dean has offered criticisms of Bush, as have I. Bush really blew it with his deceitfulness about prescription drugs, IMHO.

This pales (in a budgetary sense alone) next to Kerry's deceitfulness on health care in general. You may rest assured that if Kerry speaks about health care that he is pretending economics does not exist. He seems to think that pouring money into the system will cause costs to go down. This has never happened in any other economic system. He could help by providing incentives for health care consumers to watch their spending, but he does no such thing.

This is quite irresponsible, and typifies the Democratic response to various problems. Ignore the serious economic flaws in their proposals and pretend they can command the economic sea. Republicans often fall prey to this temptation as well, but at least some of their proposals try to work with economic forces rather than against them.

Yours,
Wince

Stolen Honor was done very respectfully and I saw truth. What I saw that was hard to even imagine is how our men were put in those brutal positions with the ropes. I knew of the traps in the field and the horrible knife like things coming out of the fields as our soldiers walked through the jungles. I knew our soldiers were beaten and I knew a good bit about the nature of the cruelty our men endured.

Something stuck out in the pictures of Kerry regarding his haircut. Some other things Kerry said or did got me to the core because I too feel all soldiers from a war deserve our support. I knew many young men that went to Viet Nam and I fell in love with one such soldier that served two terms there. He had slides and film that turned me and they were difficult to see. I watched them 30 years ago and I can still see them in my mind. This soldier I fell in love with was at times very mean so I was trying in earnest to understand Senator Kerry.

I had been a woman that was very vibrant and full of life and had children I loved and adored when the war was going on. I was humiliated when I saw the great big peace movement come around and sickened what they, the anti war people did to our men when they returned home.

I liked some things Kerry said once he became the democrats choice. He seemed to make sense at times. In the back of my mind I was struggling with him throwing his medals. I remember Jane Fonda and what she did. She was a beautiful sexy actress that got the attention of just about everyman I could think of with her beautiful sexy body and her very pretty face. People loved her Dad, Henry Fonda and when Jane came out and then her brother in Easy Rider you could see the rebellion going on in our country. Jane Fonda was in what we called back then in the 60's a *racy sexy, almost porn movie*. It was Barbraella. She was on her way to becoming an actress we thought we could like and being a Fonda helped her.

She did these United States a horrible dishonor. She has been forgiven by some viet nam soldiers and many she will never get respect again. We knew her through her movies. We did not know Kerry until he did what he is now being brought into the light and upfront as when Jane Fonda got her due.

This is where you might ask yourself a question. If Jane Fonda was shunned by her father until the last movie where she appeared in with him and Kathreen Hepburn in the movie, "On Golden Pond", if it took her father years to forgive her for disgracing this country that made a man such as himself a respected actor. If he came from an era in this country after WWII, and managed to find work and managed to somehow become a respected man and a hard working man that tried to instill values in his way, then why did it hurt him so deeply, why did it hurt our soldiers so deeply. Why did Jane Fonda come out years later, years, long over due years while she was filming a movie here, in the United States. Why when she was filming did a group of Viet nam soldiers come out and tell her she had hurt them, she had caused humiliation beyond measure. Why did Jane Fonda say she was sorry. Why did a woman, a woman that was out there fighting for rights of women. A woman right out there voting for the Roe vs.Wade. A woman finally come out and tell people what she did was wrong. She was terribly sorry and blamed her youth and ignorance and even divorce the politician she had tried to help get elected.

Kerry should do the same. Kerry should not hide behind law suits that would discredit him. Kerry needs to come out and talk an honest talk. He is polished. He is a great debater, he feels he has the answers, he has a wife and children that seem to love him very much. He has the backing of the democrats. He is as good as Clinton when it comes to style and charisma. The democrats are only asked to step up to the plate and have John Kerry behave like a decent man to admit his actions killed our moral and killed Mothers, Fathers, sisters and brothers when he became a *Rebel*.

James Dean was a rebel and we liked that rebel. Fonda's son was a *rebel* and so was, Jane.

There is a stark difference here. This man if wanting to be the President of the United States. Will the real John Kerry please come out now?

Reading that headline, the title of this post, was yet another strange indication of the bizarre way my mind works sometimes. "Watch stolen? Honor? Free online?"

ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Anyway, I myself have morally condemned Bush for his support for the FMA, and I will continue to do so.

I voted for Evil Dean in the Democratic primary, but Lieberman was good, too. My friend Robin Georg Olsen was for Lieberman. My brother was for Edwards. I don't know anybody whose first choice was Kerry. I didn't like Kerry then, and the more I heard from and about him since then, and the more I keep hearing from and about him, the less I like. Better four more years of Bush.

The chief issue in this election is the War against Islam's terrorists, on which everything else depends. And, from everything I've seen so far, Kerry would be even more disastrous as Commander in Chief of our armed forces in this War.