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Differences Between Bush and Kerry

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I'd like to start a list of the differences between Bush and Kerry. Be fair! You can be funny (humor illuminates), but over all try for the real differences also. Hopefully, I'll end up with a balance and not a log that leans to much toward one person or the other.

Not really fair, but sarcastic and something I've wanted off my chest
Kerry dodged bullets in Vietnam.
The only bullets Bush may have dodged were from drunk rednecks firing into the air on Ladie's Night at the local bar.
 
I might vote for Kerry.

On the other hand, everybody knows exactly what Bush stands for, doesn't stand for and what to exect of him.
 
Loon said:
I might vote for Kerry.

On the other hand, everybody knows exactly what Bush stands for, doesn't stand for and what to exect of him.
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I don't mean to pick on you particularly, as I've seen this over and over again on this board. Now, this really isn't a skeptics' board per se, but I would expect it to have more skeptics than anywhere else.

Yet what I see, over and over again, rewarded in a Presidential campaign essentially reduces to fixitiy of opinion, unchanging in the face of evidence.

Kerry, for example, is criticized as being initially in support of the war but, when it became more and more apparent that the WMD claim was bogus, turned against it. Some people call this hypocrisy. I call it learning. That is, adapting to new evidence and new perceptions of evidence.

I want a President who has the capacity to change approaches when it becomes apparent that the old approach isn't working. I want someone who can adapt to circumstances. I want someone who, if something totally unexpected like 9/11 happens, can sit down and think "what should we do about this" rather than just use it as an excuse to do something he wanted to do while campaigning, as Bush did by invading Iraq. I want someone to notice, "hey, there aren't any jobs, so maybe what we're doing isn't working."
 
I think I misspoke.

When I said "I might vote for Kerry" I meant that was a contrast to the odds that I will vote for Bush.


The original for the comment about Bush referred to "the evil you know" I wasn't even thinking about the flipflops or whatever.

I just didn't want to sound any more partisan than absolutely necessary.

I agree with you, epepke, Kerry is indicating not that he is wishy-washy, but that he considers things.
 
corplinx said:
Kerry steps out of the shower to pee.
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After both used the lavatory Bush turns to Kerry and says, "When I was little, I learned to wash my hands after I pee'd."

Kerry says, "When I was little I learned not to pee on my hands."
 
Kerry = higher taxes.
Bush = lower taxes.

Kerry = flip-flop.
Bush = you know what you're getting.

Kerry = weak on defence.
Bush = strong on defence.
 
Demigorgon said:
Kerry = higher taxes.
Bush = lower taxes.

Kerry = flip-flop.
Bush = you know what you're getting.

Kerry = weak on defence.
Bush = strong on defence.
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Above post = Repugnican propaganda (careful not to step in it.)
 
Demigorgon said:
Kerry = higher taxes.
Bush = lower taxes.

Kerry = flip-flop.
Bush = you know what you're getting.

Kerry = weak on defence.
Bush = strong on defence.
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That's a good one.

Kerry=balanced budget
Bush=huge deficits

Kerry=considers changing conditions/information
Bush=rigidly dogmatic (although quite flippy on specifics: no 9/11 commission extension/extension; no testimony to 9/11 commission/1 hour/all questions; WMD/no WMD; no nation-building/nation-building in Iraq; no outside CIA leak investigation/independent investigation)

Kerry=strong on defense
Bush=huge profits to friends and family
 
Kerry= listens to the public.
Bush= listens to the church.
 
Kerry=Wants to tell you how to live.
Bush=Wants to tell you how to live.

Kerry=Wants to steal more of your earned dollars.
Bush=Doesnt want to steal as much.

Kerry=Wants to appease terrorists.
Bush=Wants to kill terrorists.

Kerry=Phony on almost all issues.
Bush=Pig headed on almost all issues.

Kerry=A freedom hating authoritarian.
Bush=Says he supports freedom, but really doesn't.


That about sums it up.
 
Tony said:


So you are content with lies and manipulation as long as fits your worldview?
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Are you?

I'd rather step in the smaller pile of p00p. The one that won't wreck my shoes.

I believe I have expressed my doubts about Kerry somewhere in these forums, Tony. But I feel that Bush has PROVEN to be a liar & manipulator of the worst kind.
 
How is Kerry strong on defense? He voted to slash the CIA budget by 6 billion in 1994.
 
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