OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT

As surprising as it may seem, The Voice strongly endorses Senator John F. Kerry and the nationwide Democratic ticket for election on November 2, 2004.

George W. Bush has been a miserable failure as the court-appointed leader of the United States of America. His utter incompetence, lack of any judgment or independent thought, disregard for safety of Americans home or abroad or for American troops he so willingly ordered to a created war, and his policies of economic destruction have, in four short years, managed to bear down on our republic more than any single administration in history.

The many failures in his private life as a "businessman" have not taught him the lessons one generally learns from one's mistakes. His loyalty to his comrades among the landed gentry, or his "base" as he openly refers to them as, is misdirected and not in the interest of the masses. His lies, deceptions, misanthropy, and malapropisms, while comical at first, are now dangerous, egregious, slanderous, and embarrassing. The credibility of the United States is beyond strained. The reputation of the American government is not only tarnished, but perhaps irrevocably rusted both at home and in the eyes of the world.

The purpose of the office of the president of the United States, as seen by the sculptors of this nation and the democracy for which we stand, was to be the chief ambassador of freedom and a symbol of our republic. The office was to be synonymous with choice and freedom, personal choice and personal freedom. It was to stand as nobly and recognizable as the American flag, the bald eagle (or the turkey if you were Benjamin Franklin), the Liberty Bell, and the constitution. The epitome of what it means to live in a free land. Being the symbol of freedom does not include using mighty military power to further your own wealth in foreign countries, lying to the people for which you work and represent, and alienating the world at large by turning up the nose of the United States in the world of public opinion.

Had Iraq had ANY involvement in the attacks on American soil in September of 2001, I am fully confident that America would have found no nation in the United Nations unwilling to back an American attack and coup over the sovereign nation of Iraq. Fidel Castro would have supported an attack. Iran would have supported an attack. I feel strongly that even Afghanistan and North Korea would have been in favor of making the nation of Iraq pay for the attacks. However, like the United Nations said when they initially denied granting the authority of a US invasion, the evidence was NOT found that Iraq had any connection with al Qaida, the horrendous attacks, or even had weapons of mass destruction. Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft, the gente if you will, blatantly lied to the United Nations, lied to our allies, lied to the Congress, and most appallingly, lied to the American people.

George W. Bush should not be on any ballot. He should be serving life sentences for the over 1000 American soldiers who have been killed thus far and be found guilty of gross negligence for the danger he has put our nation in. But of course, if Bush were in Texas, we know how frequent they use the death penalty and, well, to borrow a phrase from my grandmother, "it's his bed and he'll have to lay in it."

A long tall hickory. A short piece of rope. A long Texas sunset!

John Forbes Kerry MUST be elected as president of the United States. If for no other reason than the embarrassment we would all be saved by not having Bush plunder and blunder his way through diplomatic affair after diplomatic affair!

Do you really want the world thinking that all Americans speak and think (or not think) and act like Cowboy George W. Bush??

I didn't think so.

VOTE FOR KERRY/EDWARDS 2004!!!!

Regards,
The Voice
Nick Yaekle
Columbus, Ohio USA