Why/why not should your vote sway?, Reasons for voting. Options

[*CrackedRearView*]

For example, the way Kerry prances around bragging about his three purple hearts, when in reality the first was for a piece of shrapnel the size of a rose thorn...

The second one was when he got hit with rice that exploded on a Sampan.

The third was when his buttocks got knocked against the Pilot House of his boat.

And he's proud to have requested purple hearts for such minor injuries, none of which required any loss of duty time nor hospitalization.

I don't think Kerry's (or Bush's for that matter) war record should make someone vote either Democrat/Republican this year, and I don't think either candidate should make it a point to throw it out into the public as if people should vote for that reason.

Any other's you guys can think of?

[Alpha240]

Actually, you're misinformed, and absolutely wrong. You get purple hearts for serious, enemy-inflicted injuries, I repeat, enemy-inflicted injuries. He got a scratch on the arm by a piece of U.S. shrapnel.

If Kerry did not DESERVE his purple hearts, then why did they give it to him??? think about it man...

Bush is harder for the puppet masters to control, he does things with or without the approval of other nations or his advisors, he is a cowboy who gets things done, he is like our founding fathers

Isn't that more of a reason NOT to vote for Bush?! Why would you want a leader who doesn't take any input from his people or advisors... sounds like a dictator to me. I agree with you that Bush does whatever he wants, that's why we are in this god-forsaken war in the first place. Are there any valid reasons to be at war besides Bush's own motives? NO. And describing Bush as one of our founding fathers has no backing. If your saying that he is like one of those leaders who took over the country by driving the native americans away, then I would totally agree with you.

you are wrong about the purple hearts btw. dont believe everything you read on the internet.

I agree that you can't believe a lot of things on the internet. I am a biology major and in my class our professor was telling us how Bush's new Clear Skies policy is going to cause more pollution and increased global warming. I told this to my friend and he claimed that those facts were wrong and in fact Bush was reducing emissions and gases by 70%. And I looked it up on the internet and was surprised to find a website claiming the same story as my friend. I couldn't believe that my professor would lie to us so I looked harder and found out that my professor was right all along, Bush's Clear Skies act will implement less pollution laws then the ones already in effect! So I looked at the first website and realized it was for the White House. oh, and look who's currently president... how freakin convenient. I think I believe what I learn at a place of EDUCATION over the claims of President Bush, not the most credible man these days.

Bush is a liar and an idiot. The whole discussion about Kerry's purple heart is so trivial compared to what Bush did.


ANYONE BUT BUSH!