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Posted by WildEyedLiberal in John Kerry Group
Sat Nov 04th 2006, 01:28 AM
I have been very pensive this week, deliberating the fallout of this attempted character assassination against our beloved Senator. During one of my darker moods, I happened to recall a sign I had seen once, in what seems like a lifetime ago:

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.


Then I thought it a lovely quote and admired its romantic idealism from afar. Such concepts, while soul-stirring, are very removed from the daily life of an American teenager.

But today I recalled those words and with a shudder understood them fully for the first time. In dolor veritas.
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Why I support John Kerry
Kerry's Ten Point Plan for America in his own words:

1): Obey the law, and protect civil rights in this country.

2): Tell the truth, and tell it to Americans all the time.

3): Fire the incompetents.

4): Chase the money lenders and changers from the temple of democracy and reclaim it for the grassroots of this nation.

5): Bring our troops home from a stable Iraq - which we can do – as fast as possible.

6): Find Osama Bin Laden and protect the ports and other facilities of the United States of America.

7): Stop stabilizing big oil, and stop blaming the American people for being addicted to oil when it’s this administration that is addicted to oil. And we need to commit ourselves to alternative and renewable fuels.

8): Make access to healthcare affordable for all Americans, not as a matter of privilege and ability to pay, but as a matter of right for being an American citizen.

9): Reduce the deficit, which is, after all, a conservative thing to do, and rather the difference from this radical group that are doubling it, tripling it, adding to the deficit in trade and adding to our children’s debt while they make irresponsible choices about the future and we must define and respect work over wealth. That’s an important principle for this country.

10): And finally, fight for American jobs, jobs here in America that are high value-added jobs that will open up the doors to the future.



Also...


- Kerry led the filibuster of dangerous right-wing extremist SC nominee Samuel Alito.



- John Kerry has exposed more government corruption than any man alive, blew the lid off the Iran-Contra and BCCI terrorist money-laundering scandals, and earned himself lifelong enemies on both sides of the aisle for his relentless courage in fighting the Bush family crime syndicate. All you have to do is Follow the Money.



- Kerry lights into the incompetent, callous, dishonest, lawbreaking, warmongering "Katrina Administration"



- And if all that weren't enough, he's found time to do a few other things besides!


So who are you waiting for? There is no bigger advocate for the American people than John Kerry.

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