John Kerry for President


With the Presidential Primaries less than a month away, I decided that it was time to stop hemming and hawing over which Presidential candidate to endorse. I’ve chosen John Kerry.

However, I have not chosen him necessarily because I support him with the fullest enthusiasm possible. I have chosen him because I believe that what Bush has done with this country is unjust and wrong. I recognize, that Kerry may continue current policies for the next four years (and likely will in several areas); however, I feel that Kerry has a much better chance of improving environmental law, resolving the War in Iraq, and preserving Social Security. I am among a mass of voters who vote not because they feel any affinity towards any candidate, but because not voting means not being heard.

The American public is still disillusioned in politics. We expect that our political figures will lie to us. We expect that those in power will abuse that power. Despite what Bush may tell us, what is known as the Vietnam Syndrome — which refers to the feelings aroused in the American public as they witnessed the Vietnam War — is very much alive, and John Kerry is right to try and invoke that idea when he argues that Iraq is exactly like the Vietnam War. However, there’s no way of knowing whether Kerry does what he says he will or whether he is simply trying to appease a torn American public.

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