Reply #172: A long rant from a very Liberal INDY Dean supporter [View All]

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First off if we lived in a rational society Dennis would be our president but his fallacy is that he wants to represent the have knots and the disenfranchised. The corporate media machine has been quick to implant the impression Dennis flew in from a UFO so the masses stray clear of this Intelligent life form from another planet or is it Ohio.

I’m glad that you have indulged in candor regarding your contradictions for I have been scratching my head every since your endorsement of KERRY?

Clark has been what Kerry should have been or what I wished him to be. Yes my distaste with Kerry has to do with the Iraq invasion and the Patriot act. When the Bush administration blanketed the nation with anti-intellectual jingoism and the right instituting dissent with treason I naïve thought Kerry would wag that combat Veteran finger at the foolish bush administration about the rights he fought for us to have.

Instead I have to quote Republicans …

Republican Trent Lott “ We can support the troops without supporting the president”

Republican Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”


On to DEAN let me help illustrate my support for him with a movie I know you saw “Goodwill Hunting” I will paraphrase the scene. The professor and Sean the Physiologist(Robin Williams) arguing in the office about the future of Will(Matt Damon)

Professor – Responding to Sean, “so he(Will) can spend his time hanging out with those Guerrillas”(his friends).

Sean- “You know why he hangs out with those Guerillas as you call them, because any of them would take a baseball bat to your head if he wanted them to it’s called loyalty.”

When I was hoping that the combat veteran Kerry would take that bat to Bushes head he was the one who was AWOL !!!! They hate us for our freedoms Bush says yet we are losing those freedoms he claims they hate us for. As I write this DEANS hands are callused from swinging that bat. Of course Dean has many policies I don’t like NAFTA and the WTO are a few to name. I like that Dean wants to give us all Health insurance and has a record with balancing the budget and creating jobs which he better balance with social programs. His Foreign policy approach of inclusion and proactive diplomacy warms me to him as well.

Dean has been there every day trading blows with Bush.
After reading some of your work and meeting you after your god dame informative and inspirational speech in SF how in the world can you support KERRY? Most of what I have heard you say and write is in complete conflict with major policy decisions of KERRY. Is it that both of you are from MASS? Anyway I don’t throw the baby out with the bath water like a lot of reactionaries here.

Didn’t I say I disagree with Dean on NAFTA and WTO? Hey how did that Devils advocate get in here? Get out of here you un-holy demon of reason. My disagreements with Dean pale in comparison to the Iraq invasion that will have the same effect of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan regarding terrorist recruitment and the coming police state and loss of civil liberties via the Patriot act and god forbid it’s sequel.

Kerry a combat Veteran allowed an AWOL president’s party and a bunch of chicken hawks to have a de-facto political copyright on patriotism without even gestering to pick up the bat. Dean was there all along “The flag does not belong to Rush, delay or Roberson but each and every one of us. DEAN has inspired me to the point I pass out his flyers and spread the word of mouth. Kerry makes me think about what should have been. I wish you good luck when you meet Kerry.