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But a lot of these folks, and the non-Americans who read this site, forget: there are a lot of Americans who will die if Bush gets a second term. Not just the PBI or the elderly who can't afford their drugs, but places where OSHA forgets to visit, or so bleary from that second shift at Wal-Mart they crash that hooptie car of theirs into a wall. Bush is removing the protection of the law from working Americans. Not just the right to organize, but to have safe working conditions. It's nice to talk about how liberal Kerry should be, or the leftist fantasy that four more years of Bush will turn people against the GOP like they were rancid meat. Well, what about the people who catch it in the neck between now and then? What do you tell them? The revolution is coming? They need help, hell, just a president and Congress who will listen to them, try to raise the minimum wage, not ship their jobs overseas.
I wish Kerry could openly oppose the war, and not offer solutions which will never happen, but that's not a winning debate in post-9/11 America. The thing is to change presidents then call for the end of the war. Because it will never happen with Bush. He will destroy the Army first. There is nothing wrong in electing Kerry and then opposing any expansion of the war. He's not king, we can change policy when we need to, but not with George Bush in office.
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