"Meet the new boss. He's the same as the old boss!" The Who
Pretty Boy Edwards will probably win.
Rhetoric Works <--=New Bumper Sticker
Kucinich doesn't use it.
Perot didn't use it.
Continuing off topic...this is going to make some people very mad.
I almost always vote Republican in the general election, except when
for Sam Nunn while he was in the Senate. Now I often vote in the
Democrat primary, but for a specific reason: to try to keep a
particular Democrat from being nominated. That no doubt is considered
subversive and unpatriotic by many, but I am doing what I believe to
be the best for the country.
I voted against Clinton in two primaries. I'll go with Joe Leiberman
this time. I think Dean or Kerry (although I'm a little conflicted
on Senator Kerry, him being a decorated Vietnam vet) should not get
the nomination, because I differ with their opinions on how to fight
terrorism and their vision (manufactured, I think, in Dean's case) on
what is best for America. I will vote for President Bush in the
general election, along with some Democrats based on their performance
and principles.
This time my voting in the Democrat primary has an element that could
be considered as an honest reason. I admire Joe Leiberman., and I
believe believe that only he would be able to provide some really
good, honest, meaningful and thoughtful debate when the presidential
debates begin.
By the way, I guess I am a draft dodger, based on the way President
Bush has been portrayed. Let's see: he is said to have avoided
Vietnam by joining the National Guard, only becoming a fighter pilot,
presumably to protect Texas. Unlike his dad, who was a "real" fighter
pilot.
In 1968, the Deeply Held Conviction to serve the USA by many of my
peers was to volunteer for the Air Force Reserve, but there was
allegedly a long waiting list and they got drafted. While in college
I was a USMC Reserve Lance Corporal for the purpose of attending
officer candidate school at Quantico, my draft board tried to draft
even me). I was released from the program a year after completing the
training, because my weak college grades set me back too far as to
projected graduation date.
Two weeks later, my draft notice appeared in the mailbox. I "dodged
the draft" by joining the US Navy. I didn't have to go to Vietnam and
risk my life. I chose to serve in a different war, the Cold War, to
help strategically protect the USA on a Fleet Ballistic Missile
submarine. On two boats, actually; I served for 7 years as a nuclear
reactor operator. I really felt for the guys in southeast Asia; For
77 days, continuously under water, without being to contact my wife
and daughter at home, I often thought how different the circumstances
could have been.
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