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Through all this death and destruction Bush has created not once has this former AWOL pilot gone to a single funeral of the soldiers he sent to Iraq. Not once. Not once has he so much as lifted the blackout of Dover Air Force Base and gone there to salute one single flag draped casket slowly carried off Air Force cargo planes. Not once. But let us not forget how compassionate he wants us to believe he is.
The party now led by Bush and Cheney is devoid of soul. They stop at nothing to retain power. As you read this the GOP Secretary of State in Ohio, drowning in a sea of new Democratic party registrations has declared these new registrations void because they are not on 80 lb. card stock. Likewise in Colorado, the Secretary of State is declaring all provisional ballots void as far as federal votes go so presidential votes of these mostly Democrats will not be counted. In Ohio the manufacturer of the easily tampered electronic voting machines has vowed to do all he can to elect George Bush. In Florida, despite dozens of failures in the primary to accurately record votes on electronic voting machines, the president's governor brother insists on using them. Elsewhere in Florida judges have had to intervene to force the state to reinstate voters in good standing already purged from voter registration lists. The voters just happened to be predominately black and predominantly Democrats. In West Virginia and Arkansas the Republican party is stuffing mailboxes with literature declaring if John Kerry is elected president the Bible will be outlawed.
The Republican party is better than this. America is better than this. That's why the Reagan and Eisenhower sons are leaving the party to support John Kerry.
The Democratic party, with all of its warts and shortcomings, cannot be anything but better than this. Maybe it's time for new parties to emerge but for that to happen there must be something of a nation left. We cannot continue to be so bitterly divided or else risk revolution at some point. The Reagan and Eisenhower sons must sense that to make this extraordinary leap of faith.
It is with the hope of a new beginning, the hope of a healed nation and the hope of reasoning and bipartisanship for the betterment of the nation that like John Eisenhower, it is time to vote not for a party label but for the good of the nation and cast a vote John Kerry for president. This election is perhaps the most important in the history of the nation. This is our chance to correct our course. If we fail we may not ever get a second chance.
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