So.....What if John Kerry becomes President?

[Eagler]

skerry will fix everything for everybody .. is that clear enough - LOL

[MrCoffee]

Budget & Economy
Follow Clinton's plan to halve deficit in four years.
He recognises that Bushs tax cuts helped a bit (bandaid). However I dont thinks thats the best solution in the long run.

Corporations
Close the loopholes that reward corps taking jobs overseas.
Create incentives for more domestic investment  rather than overseas investment.
Regulate on side of citizens, not on side of corporations. To me means more than the unions and means explicit and proactive policies towards economic job growth.

Foreign Policy
American power comes from respect, not weapons.
Bush undermines generations of American leadership.
Excluding other nations in rebuilding Iraq is dumb.
Supports multilateral cooperative internationalism.
Voted YES on enlarging NATO to include Eastern Europe.
Voted YES on limiting the President's power to impose economic sanctions.
Voted YES on ending Vietnam embargo.

Free Trade
All new trade must include labor and environmental standards.
Build a rule-based global trading system (to me this amounts in better management of the effects of the WTO on trade with other countries).

Homeland Security
Bush's foreign policy has not made American safer (debatable to much extent). Although we have a great platform in the middle east now to fight terrorism. The US has created a dependant middle eastern nation for the foreseable future.
Four new imperatives: alliances, modernize, end Mideast oil dependancy.
Increase military by 40,000 troops-but no draft.
No new generation of nuclear weapons!
Automatic citizenship for immigrants who serves in military.
Voted YES on adopting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Voted YES on military pay raise of 4.8%.
Voted YES on deploying National Missile Defense ASAP.

Tax Reform
Voted YES on increasing tax deductions for college tuition.
More middle class tax cuts, less upper class tax breaks (from DNC speach).
Create additional specific tax incentives for domestic businesses. (from DNC speach).


Course I dont agree with everything Kerry or Bush does nor could anybody agree with everything about particular politician. Its all compromise.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by AWMac
Here's a lil help Buggery Boy....

Ten men, ten Irish Republican volunteers paid the ultimate sacrifice during those summer months of 1981. Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Thomas McElwee, Kieran Doherty and Mickey Devine. Their names are written on the hearts and minds of every Irish Republican in Ireland and abroad.

Sooo... cpxxx latch 'hold tight of your strings that let you loose, Momma misses you.

Opposite sides here. My slant on that is ten IRA terrorists starved themselves to death.  No loss.   They were traitors to Ireland and a threat to our freedom. When I served in the Irish military they were the enemy. Their friends still are.
Our war on terror has being going on for a long time.
 
But this is beside the point.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Otto
If your Irish...., worry about your own President...., not ours......

My president doesn't matter Otto,  yours does.  I worry about what the US president does because it often directly effects me and everyone in my country. His policies could cost me my job or get me a better one. Or how much tax I pay or how much I pay for oil.  He could mean the difference between peace and war.  Actions of the US President effect everyone in the world directly or indirectly at some point. Just ask any Iraqi.

[Drunky]

Alec Baldwin will finally be ablve to move back into the US since when Bush was elected.

Huh?  What?  You mean that he only threatened to leave the US if Bush was elected and didn't actually do it???

Man, and I thought we could trust those liberal Democratic Hollywood types.

[MrLars]

Originally posted by Lizking
Since he won't tell us what he will do, since his plans are secret, we will have to see.  if he does a good job he will have my full backing, and if he dicks it up, I will rag on him, just like with Bush.

It's there and has been for a few months now, it's now in book form also and available for download here:

http://www.johnkerry.com/plan/

[Fishu]

These elections are nothing but the re-run of last elections.
Just a different smartass democrat candidate and the same republican monkey.

...but I'm sure it can't get any worse than it already is.

[Otto]

Originally posted by cpxxx
My president doesn't matter Otto,  yours does.  I worry about what the US president does because it often directly effects me and everyone in my country. His policies could cost me my job or get me a better one. Or how much tax I pay or how much I pay for oil.  He could mean the difference between peace and war.  Actions of the US President effect everyone in the world directly or indirectly at some point. Just ask any Iraqi.

Fair enough...  just don't being trying to vote....

[Skuzzy]

If Kerry becomes President?

Hmmm,..A lot of folks will be eating crow that said it would never happen.

Hmmm,..A lot of folks will be eating crow that believed he would actually do what he says he will do.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Otto
Fair enough...  just don't being trying to vote....

Not much point in me trying although if things had panned out I would be voting. I once had a green card and would have been a citizen long ago. Still no use crying.

Thinking about it though,  if I had a vote and looking at the stated policies. Living outside America I might vote Bush. But living in America I might vote Kerry.  

But as Skuzzy implies, politicians never quite deliver on their promises.

[Otto]

Originally posted by cpxxx
Not much point in me trying although if things had panned out I would be voting. I once had a green card and would have been a citizen long ago. Still no use crying.  

I'm sorry we missed you....

[Silat]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Obviously all the liberals on this board will contionue with their viscious attacks  on the president and this country as is the duty of all true patriots.

Deth to Amreeka!

As all Righties who have said liberals were unpatriotic in not supporting Bush will support the new president unconditionally.

           

[Steve]

American power comes from respect, not weapons. Bush undermines generations of American leadership.

Oh bullshiit, Bush is doing what should have been started years ago.  Are you going ot placate and negotiate, even ignore terrorists and hope they go away?  Clinton did and thousands of Americans are dead as a result.

Create incentives for more domestic investment rather than overseas investment.

  You mean more loopholes?  Rofl.

To me means more than the unions and means explicit and proactive policies towards economic job growth.

Unions mean higher wages right? Who bears the burden of this?  The consumer.  Higher wages means higher prices, this does nothing to help the economy.

[Momus--]

Oh bullshiit, Bush is doing what should have been started years ago. Are you going ot placate and negotiate, even ignore terrorists and hope they go away? Clinton did and thousands of Americans are dead as a result.

Silly boy. Bush II  is just trying to clean up the mess left by Reagan and daddy Bush.

Here's an informative paper on the roots of the current Islamicist scourge. Read and comprehend please. Maybe you'll see how your inane accusations of "ignoring" terrorists stand up.