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hey Gray Loess - You said it well! The Kerry. Kerry. quite contrary flip-flop crowd will do anything to try to unseat the current administration-they've been courting the self-serving liberal press like CNN, Brokaw, Jennings, et al to spout their distortions and deceipts on a sadly poorly informed American audience. The problem is that a substantial segment of US citizens simply have too shallow a grip on the issues at hand, whether they are immediate or long term. They live for today and year after year, if they vote, they cast theirs for the samepolitical machine that promises to represent their 'special' interests, yet they continue to get more and more complacent every election season because their vote seemingly didn't get noticed. It doesn't dawn on them that their chosen party only wants to unseat the incubents at any costs, and lying to the American populace is not only acceptable, but the norm. Wake up America! Uncle Sam is not chartered with the responsibility to support your life style. If you haven't attained the status and finacial level you think you are entitled to, stop blaming and get your *** to work. The political machine will spin any story to get your vote. There are no guarantees in life unless you chose a Communistic place to call home where everybody is assured a mediocre existence and little else. Consider this -- the economic boom during most of the Clinton admin. was driven by 'dot-com' industry and all of its spinoffs, many of them paper-only companies that used a creative prospectus to attract gullible investors to throw money at their lies. To believe that the Bush admin. has caused an economic downturn is simply ignorance, just as much as it is ignorant to credit Clinton with the economic boom of the '90s. Both the boom and the bust were inevitable because it was driven by big business, and the investment community fueled it with their money and yours. When many of the dot-coms got deleted a domino effect caused an implosion on our overall economy. Poorly and misinformed people are speaking out re: our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan without any understanding of why the US is there. What would have been the alternatives? Should we just roll over and ignore how those hateful barbarians have been killing the 'infidels' all over the world including their own people and ours? The fact that our suppossed European allies had not 'agreed' with us has nothing to do with their moral disapproval, but was strictly a selfish financial decision since their governments and industries stand to lose millions upon millions with the deposing of the Saddam regime. And the UN is but a sad shadow of its former self and is now controlled by a wacked -out group of questionable integrity without the resolve to make our planet a more peaceful place. The US shouldn't be concerned with being liked by every rogue third -world nation or the 'good ol' boys running those bastions of supposed human liberties throughout Europe. For a railfan to assert that their freedoms are in jeopardy because they cannot tresspass on railroad property to photograph trains is ludicrous. The US is at war and sleazy terrorists have vowed to shed American blood on our soil (and have). They have identified the desire to disrupt our transportation system, esp. the railroads. The railroad police and local cops are just doing their job-protecting us. For too long, the liberal side of our populace has asserted that it is okay to tolerate most anything , and frankly it is exemplified by the absurd, yet disturbing and enthusiastic tolerance and even appreciation of the disfiguring of personal and public property with spray paint by a bunch of losers. Just because it involves trains doesn't make it evenly remotely acceptable or cool in a defiant sense. . .Don't get sucker-bated into believing those who are politicizing the Iraq conflict with blatant disregard to the safety of our troops or our national security. Look beneath the surface when the left-winger wackos distort the facts that our economy is recovering in a not-out-of control, substantial long-term fashion. That is unless you believe that Al Gore invented the Internet and Bill Clinton made it the centerpoint of his economic policy, or that Kerry is a war hero to be admired because of his four months in 'Nam and his infamous 'tossing of the medals at the White House' when he returned to demonstrate against that conflict. (Did you know that he didn't have the integrity to throw his own medals, but threw someone elses? Perhaps he was saving them just in case he needed to flip-flop on the issue and proudly (sic) flaunt them at a later date.) Perhaps this is not the 'forum' for such discussion but I am tired of reading stupid statements by those who think it is cool to bash and trash, slowly turning our country into a cesspool. And Kerry will only hasten America's fall from grace. If I've pixxxed off of a few of you-great - for at least you are examining your thought and opinions, too.
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