KERRY+EDWARDS= Americans Back On Track

The Voice of the Disenfranchised

Prior to my support of Governor Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination, and prior to said candidate losing his marbles and singing the National Anthem to drown the voice of a potential heckler, I long touted the credentials and savvy of Senator John Edwards, the presumptive Democratic nominee for vice-president on a John Kerry Democratic presidential ticket. While I wasn't as impressed during the primary with him (and lost TOTAL respect for Rep. Dick Gephardt and gained IMMENSE respect for the Reverend AL Sharpton) I still think he is a fine candidate and capably qualified to fill the shoes of the president should the need arise.

Yesterday, Senator Kerry announced that John Edwards would be his running mate. Within minutes, the internet was full of Republicans saying how unqualified Senator Edwards is to serve. They even went so far as to mention things that Senator Kerry said to or about Senator Edwards in the primary. Apparently, and this I have not substantiated, Senator Kerry said that Senator Edwards was too young and inexperienced to be the president. Ok, let's assume for a moment that he did say this. Now, we should all be in assumption mode. Now that we are, let's look at only a couple of facts.

If the qualification for vice-president is a set of qualifications greater and with more diversity than those of the president sitting, then I have to say that the Bush-Cheney administration is sitting on top of the world. For Cheney, with all of his ethical and legal troubles with his business dealings, does INDEED have more experience than Bushie Jr. ever did have. Cheney was a congressman and a cabinet secretary under Junior's father and had a semi-successful reign in business. Bush ran numerous companies into the ground, but not before taking his own money, plus what he thought was owed, and running to yet another in a long string of businesses he killed. But the most important government qualification that Junior used is the most laughable. Having served as governor of Texas. Not that I discount the state of Texas at all. I respect and realize its importance as an oil producing state. But Texas has a "weak-governor" system of government, where the lieutenant governor has more power as president of the state senate (not totally certain if its the senate or the house) and the congress of that state has more power than either. Junior didn't even have to balance a budget like most governors.

If I were Kerry and I were responding to Republicans and Juniors claims that Senator Edwards was not qualified and were to be defending things I may have said during the primary, I would look Junior square in the eyes and say,:

"Mr. President, it seems that things said in primaries have customarily been cast as banter and unusable in past presidential elections. For if they had not, then I seem to recall a certain Republican presidential primary candidate back in 1980 who said to another candidate for the same slot that his proposal for the economy of this nation was 'voodoo economics' that would financially ruin this country. And then that same man went on to serve eight years as Mr. Voodoo's vice-president and four years in his own miserable administration as president."


Remember folks, what we're looking for as Democrats here isn't the best candidate for the job as the US Constitution pretty much limits what ANY one person or administration for that matter can do. What we're looking for and voting for is the party platform we most believe in. We're voting for Kerry-Edwards because we believe in the principles and values and freedoms of the Democratic party, the same ones the Republicans are killing everyday with their un-Patriot Act and hundreds of other acts of treason through legislation. So:

VOTE DEMOCRAT!

THE ASS YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!!