Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Season Ending Preview
Well the Chase for the Championship is truly on now and the boys in the IRL and F1 are down to their penultimate races this weekend and next respectively. Even OWRS is down to their final two races, but they are a month away and really, who cares? In a way it is always sad to see the end of the racing season, but with the NFL to fill the void, it makes the end so much more palatable. And besides, the taxis still have another two months before they call it a season. It’s been a good season for a few teams and drivers and a tumultuous season for many teams, drivers and a couple of series. Ferrari with Michael Schumacher, the Sandwich, Jean Todt and Ross Brawn put up one of those dream seasons winning 14 of the 16 races so far with Schummi getting 12. In fact he started the season with 5 in a row before Jarno Trulli got him at Monaco. After that Michael rang up 7 in a row. Currently Rubens has won the past two after Kimi won at Spa. Like him or not, and I don’t, Schummi has shown this year how good he is. He just beat everyone to death until they cried uncle and by then it was over. I’ve seen Michael wrap up the title earlier than he did this year, but only because the Sandwich was getting so many second places. Honestly I have never seen anything like it from a driver or a team and that is a lot of racing. Buttons looks like he will finish third in the drivers championship. Fernando Alonso is just 4 points ahead of Trulli and JPM, but Jarno is out for the season before making the move to Toyota next year. JPM seems to have lost interest in driving the Williams, but he may be able to garner enough points to overtake Fernando. On the other hand Alonso will be keen to keep ahead of new, at least for the rest of this season, team mate Jacques Villeneuve. But with all of the good driving and fantastic venues for the F1 crowd there is trouble afoot. Last week Ford Motor Co. announced it was pulling the plug on its Jaguar F1 program and on the Cosworth engine program. Besides the obvious sting of losing two cars on the grid, Ford supplies the Jag as well as the Jordan and the Minardi teams with engines. In fact ripples can be heard here in America where the Cosworth is the only engine in OWRS and is a partner with Chevrolet in their IRL engine program. Now the scuttlebutt is that Cosworth will be sold and kept in business. That is the good news. The bad news is that team principals in F1 agree on only one thing, that costs are too high and must be cut. What gets cut and who agrees on what is a sheer crap shoot. These guys never agree on anything. I reported on here earlier in the summer about the changes proposed by Max Mosley. No one has made any move to approve them. Mosley says the changes are coming, but now the teams are saying the costs of change are too high. Max has lately resorted to using safety as his reasoning for the changes. He says the cars are too fast and corner too quickly. Yet it has been more than 10 years since the last fatality in F1. The older, more dangerous tracks are being replaced by newer, safer and modern racing facilities. Sure everyone will miss the speed of Silverstone, Eau Rouge at Spa and the part oval at Monza, but these tracks were designed at a different time for different cars. Some can be made safe enough. Some can not. The real problem with F1 lies with the FOM and Bernie Ecclestone. They are simply taking too much money from the sport. There, I said it. No one else seems to want to. Bernie is one of the wealthiest men on the planet. I don’t begrudge him his wealth, but F1 is his golden goose and if he kills it then he is the biggest asshole in the world. So this offseason will feature a lot of fighting and discussion over the future of the series. Personally I love it and I don’t want it to go away. I also lover the cars and the technology and know that it costs a shitload of money. Then we have the IRL. God love ‘em! The racing is fantastic regardless of the no brain OWRS fans say, but Tony George just leaves me wondering what he will pull next. He is no better than the owner board of CART that he wanted on. Fuck he had the Indy 500, why did he want to be involved any more than that? The league is coming to a crossroads. Probably not this year or even next, but unless attendance and those all important TV ratings start to go up, there will be no IRL. An honestly, I don’t think they will. For some reason you can have great racing, but so many fans were put off by the split that it will never be the same. Then fucking NASCAR has its snobby fans who think the sun rises and sets on some damn taxi cab. Oh they’re not all snobs, but there are a lot of them and I just don’t see why. The drivers aren’t all that compelling once you get past Jr. Jeffy, Schturt and Busch. The cars are all exactly alike and the rules are a joke. I guess judging by what I have wrote you would wonder if I really am a race fan, but rest assured I am. If I didn’t care I wouldn’t talk about it and this blog would never have been done. We still have a couple months until it is all over, but I just want to say how much fun it’s been and I am already looking forward to Melbourne next March!
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Red Letter Week For the Dems
It was another red letter week for what can only be called the beleaguered campaign of John Kerry. They had the reverse Midas touch this week. Everything they touched turned to shit!
Besides the fact that the Senator is running his campaign by grabbing President Bush soundbites and responding to them, this week Kerry called the interim Prime Minister of Iraq, and our ally now, a puppet of the US.
Then to top it all off CBS News was thoroughly humiliated when its report on W's National Guard service was found to be a complete fraud. Of course CBS and the Kerry campaign both claim they were not in concert on this one, but the American public isn't buying it.
Now the first two are related since Kerry has tried to be the exact opposite of what W is. So he takes every speech and quote and tries to say the opposite. Apparently this boob is clueless about this politics game. He looks like a complete moron. He has no platform except to be the opposite of Bush. Frankly I think Bush ought to come out and say something that everyone agrees with and see what Kerry does. People are seeing Kerry as the fraud he is. His act might play well in MA, but on a national stage he is not cutting it.
The CBS thing was a source of great comedy for the Republicans. We watched as that blowhard Dan Rather squirmed on the hot seat. This no talent ass clown had zero credibility in my book before, but with his latest stunt, he lost most of what he had with the rest of the people.
Seems as though some military guy in Texas, bent on the defeat of Bush in November conspired with CBS to create some false documents to show Bush did not complete his National Guard duty. Rather and CBS claim they were duped, but it is amazing that they would run with a story that was debunked practically overnight without thoroughly checking it out. Of course when they saw an opportunity for a W character assassination responsible journalism took a back seat.
CBS ran the story on its midweek edition of 60 minutes. The next day experts pounced on the document that was allegedly written by one of W's commanders in the guard saying he had not completed his duty nor performed satisfactorily. Apparently CBS thought they could get away with it since the man who allegedly wrote it was dead. But, the experts looked at the document and determined that it was written using MS-Word. MS-Word that was not even a product at the time of the document, which was allegedly written on a typewriter.
CBS for their part spent the better part of two weeks defending the document and their decision to go with the story. Like I said, when it comes to character assassination facts are meaningless. At least that is what CBS has taught us this week.
Finally, CBS was forced to admit their error. Dan Rather, looking all sheepish and tired said the document has not been investigated in the normal CBS manner and there were doubts about its authenticity. He apologized to the American public, but of course not to the person they were trying to hurt, President Bush. He also said there were no ties to the democrats but most people find that a hard pill to swallow. Calls for Rathers removal ensued, but CBS says they will support this buffoon. I say great, let's see what he tries next!
The Democrats are dealing with a candidates wife who won't shut up and adds nothing but ridiculous statements to the mix. People say she is a strong woman, but behind that elegant voice is a lady who seems to be rather dim. The party is constantly putting out fires and instead of having issues to campaign on they seem to be sticking a finger in the air to find out which way the breeze is blowing on a given day.
I don't know what Slick Willie is these day, but he must just get up in the morning and read his paper and just shake his head at the way these boobs are running HIS party!
Besides the fact that the Senator is running his campaign by grabbing President Bush soundbites and responding to them, this week Kerry called the interim Prime Minister of Iraq, and our ally now, a puppet of the US.
Then to top it all off CBS News was thoroughly humiliated when its report on W's National Guard service was found to be a complete fraud. Of course CBS and the Kerry campaign both claim they were not in concert on this one, but the American public isn't buying it.
Now the first two are related since Kerry has tried to be the exact opposite of what W is. So he takes every speech and quote and tries to say the opposite. Apparently this boob is clueless about this politics game. He looks like a complete moron. He has no platform except to be the opposite of Bush. Frankly I think Bush ought to come out and say something that everyone agrees with and see what Kerry does. People are seeing Kerry as the fraud he is. His act might play well in MA, but on a national stage he is not cutting it.
The CBS thing was a source of great comedy for the Republicans. We watched as that blowhard Dan Rather squirmed on the hot seat. This no talent ass clown had zero credibility in my book before, but with his latest stunt, he lost most of what he had with the rest of the people.
Seems as though some military guy in Texas, bent on the defeat of Bush in November conspired with CBS to create some false documents to show Bush did not complete his National Guard duty. Rather and CBS claim they were duped, but it is amazing that they would run with a story that was debunked practically overnight without thoroughly checking it out. Of course when they saw an opportunity for a W character assassination responsible journalism took a back seat.
CBS ran the story on its midweek edition of 60 minutes. The next day experts pounced on the document that was allegedly written by one of W's commanders in the guard saying he had not completed his duty nor performed satisfactorily. Apparently CBS thought they could get away with it since the man who allegedly wrote it was dead. But, the experts looked at the document and determined that it was written using MS-Word. MS-Word that was not even a product at the time of the document, which was allegedly written on a typewriter.
CBS for their part spent the better part of two weeks defending the document and their decision to go with the story. Like I said, when it comes to character assassination facts are meaningless. At least that is what CBS has taught us this week.
Finally, CBS was forced to admit their error. Dan Rather, looking all sheepish and tired said the document has not been investigated in the normal CBS manner and there were doubts about its authenticity. He apologized to the American public, but of course not to the person they were trying to hurt, President Bush. He also said there were no ties to the democrats but most people find that a hard pill to swallow. Calls for Rathers removal ensued, but CBS says they will support this buffoon. I say great, let's see what he tries next!
The Democrats are dealing with a candidates wife who won't shut up and adds nothing but ridiculous statements to the mix. People say she is a strong woman, but behind that elegant voice is a lady who seems to be rather dim. The party is constantly putting out fires and instead of having issues to campaign on they seem to be sticking a finger in the air to find out which way the breeze is blowing on a given day.
I don't know what Slick Willie is these day, but he must just get up in the morning and read his paper and just shake his head at the way these boobs are running HIS party!
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Changes At Indy
Yesterday Speedway president Tony George (herein referred to as FTRG) announced the changes in May schedule. The race will now start at noon instead of 11:00 am. Carb Day will now be on the Friday before the race and in addition to practice and the pit stop competition, the MIPS race will be held. Practice each day will begin at noon rather than 11:00 am. And finally, the big one, qualifying returns to four days with a completely revised system. Each day only the 11 fastest will qualify. However, bumping is allowed and bumped cars will be allowed to retry. In fact, as near as I can tell by the rules as I have seen them, a car will be allowed up to twelve attempts to make the field.
So far, no change of the traditional Sunday opening of the track has been announced and with these changes I don’t expect one.
So what of these changes? First of all, the 11:00 am start time for practice was fine and I see no reason to change it. Seems gratuitous to me. The start time of the race is fine with me. Frankly they can start it at 1 and give everyone an extra hour in the morning. However, for Robby Gordon and anyone else attempting to do “the Double” it will just about kill any possibility of that. With Tony Stewart being a big news story this past year and him saying he would be there this year, one has to wonder if it is still feasible. The Carb Day being moved to Friday may prove to be fun as long as I am still able to get my cadre of pix!
As for qualifying, well I am going to take a wait and see approach to see if it works. It is such a radical change that I am having a tough time even imagining how well or poorly it will work.
While I am going to hold judgment for now I do have some comments about the changes in general. FTRG says he is doing this to help bring more teams in, entice the smaller teams to not wait until the last minute and increase television ratings. Well FTRG, if you wanted higher TV ratings and more money then you should have just kept your mouth shut back in 1994 and forgot about forming the IRL.
Don’t get me wrong the IRL is wonderful and CART was run by a group of owners who couldn’t agree on shit. But the bottom line is that there was nothing wrong with the Indianapolis 500. Now we have crappy TV ratings, barely enough cars to fill the field (and then only if FTRG pays according to some) and a drop in attendance at every event in May with the exception of Carb Day and the Parade.
FTRG, there is but one way to fix what you have done to the 500 and that is to increase the purse to make sure that everyone who qualifies makes money on it. It can’t be some crap shoot that only the top 5 make any money on. What incentive is there to come to Indy anymore. It costs a half a million to try to make the race and for what? A chance to make a couple million sure, but more likely a couple hundred thousand. It just doesn’t add up.
Once again we have a knee jerk reaction and unfortunately a boob who has no clue. Whether or not this pulls the 500 out of its doldrums and moves it back into the limelight it once enjoyed remains to be seen. What is already assured is that the one guy running the IRL is no better than the group of owners who ran CART.
So far, no change of the traditional Sunday opening of the track has been announced and with these changes I don’t expect one.
So what of these changes? First of all, the 11:00 am start time for practice was fine and I see no reason to change it. Seems gratuitous to me. The start time of the race is fine with me. Frankly they can start it at 1 and give everyone an extra hour in the morning. However, for Robby Gordon and anyone else attempting to do “the Double” it will just about kill any possibility of that. With Tony Stewart being a big news story this past year and him saying he would be there this year, one has to wonder if it is still feasible. The Carb Day being moved to Friday may prove to be fun as long as I am still able to get my cadre of pix!
As for qualifying, well I am going to take a wait and see approach to see if it works. It is such a radical change that I am having a tough time even imagining how well or poorly it will work.
While I am going to hold judgment for now I do have some comments about the changes in general. FTRG says he is doing this to help bring more teams in, entice the smaller teams to not wait until the last minute and increase television ratings. Well FTRG, if you wanted higher TV ratings and more money then you should have just kept your mouth shut back in 1994 and forgot about forming the IRL.
Don’t get me wrong the IRL is wonderful and CART was run by a group of owners who couldn’t agree on shit. But the bottom line is that there was nothing wrong with the Indianapolis 500. Now we have crappy TV ratings, barely enough cars to fill the field (and then only if FTRG pays according to some) and a drop in attendance at every event in May with the exception of Carb Day and the Parade.
FTRG, there is but one way to fix what you have done to the 500 and that is to increase the purse to make sure that everyone who qualifies makes money on it. It can’t be some crap shoot that only the top 5 make any money on. What incentive is there to come to Indy anymore. It costs a half a million to try to make the race and for what? A chance to make a couple million sure, but more likely a couple hundred thousand. It just doesn’t add up.
Once again we have a knee jerk reaction and unfortunately a boob who has no clue. Whether or not this pulls the 500 out of its doldrums and moves it back into the limelight it once enjoyed remains to be seen. What is already assured is that the one guy running the IRL is no better than the group of owners who ran CART.
Late Season News
It looks like TK has just about wrapped up the IRL title for the season. The league takes a three week break before heading to California and the penultimate race of the season, but only Dan Wheldon has a chance to catch him and I don’t see that happening given they are team mates and TK penchant for top 5 finishes.
In NASCAR the Chase will begin this week at New Hampshire. How that turd got on the rotation is beyond me. Congrats to Jeremy Mayfield for winning at Richmond Saturday night and getting himself in the mix
Finally, the Sandwich won at Monza as the F1 circus leaves Europe for a couple of races in Asia before finishing the season in Brazil. One item of note is that it looks like Jacques will be in the Renault for the rest of the season while Top Knot sits. Since Renault is set for next year it appears as though JV might end up at Sauber. It also appears as though Ralfie will be back in the car next week at Shanghai. He tested yesterday at Silverstone and seemed to be okay.
Now I come to the real reason of this post. Obviously the posts have tailed off a bit lately and as long as it is football season, they will continue to be spottier. However, the latest news from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway must be addressed.
For the record the changes will be that the race will now start at noon instead of 11:00 am. Carb Day will now be on the Friday before the race and in addition to practice and the pit stop competition, the MIPS race will be held. Practice each day will begin at noon rather than 11:00 am. And finally, the big one, qualifying returns to four days with a completely revised system. Each day only the 11 fastest will qualify. However, bumping is allowed and bumped cars will be allowed to retry. In fact, as near as I can tell by the rules as I have seen them, a car will be allowed up to twelve attempts to make the field.
So far, no change of the traditional Sunday opening of the track has been announced and with these changes I don’t expect one.
So what of these changes? First of all, the 11:00 am start time for practice was fine and I see no reason to change it. Seems gratuitous to me. The start time of the race is fine with me. Frankly they can start it at 1 and give everyone an extra hour in the morning. However, for Robby Gordon and anyone else attempting to do “the Double” it will just about kill any possibility of that. With Tony Stewart being a big news story this past year and him saying he would be there this year, one has to wonder if it is still feasible. The Carb Day being moved to Friday may prove to be fun as long as I am still able to get my cadre of pix!
As for qualifying, well I am going to take a wait and see approach to see if it works. It is such a radical change that I am having a tough time even imagining how well or poorly it will work.
While I am going to hold judgment for now I do have some comments about the changes in general. FTRG says he is doing this to help bring more teams in, entice the smaller teams to not wait until the last minute and increase television ratings. Well FTRG, if you wanted higher TV ratings and more money then you should have just kept your mouth shut back in 1994 and forgot about forming the IRL.
Don’t get me wrong the IRL is wonderful and CART was run by a group of owners who couldn’t agree on shit. But the bottom line is that there was nothing wrong with the Indianapolis 500. Now we have crappy TV ratings, barely enough cars to fill the field (and then only if FTRG pays according to some) and a drop in attendance at every event in May with the exception of Carb Day and the Parade.
FTRG, there is but one way to fix what you have done to the 500 and that is to increase the purse to make sure that everyone who qualifies makes money on it. It can’t be some crap shoot that only the top 5 make any money on. What incentive is there to come to Indy anymore? It costs a half a million to try to make the race and for what? A chance to make a couple million sure, but more likely a couple hundred thousand. It just doesn’t add up.
Once again we have a knee jerk reaction and unfortunately a boob who has no clue. Whether or not this pulls the 500 out of its doldrums and moves it back into the limelight it once enjoyed remains to be seen. What is already assured is that the one guy running the IRL is no better than the group of owners who ran CART.
In NASCAR the Chase will begin this week at New Hampshire. How that turd got on the rotation is beyond me. Congrats to Jeremy Mayfield for winning at Richmond Saturday night and getting himself in the mix
Finally, the Sandwich won at Monza as the F1 circus leaves Europe for a couple of races in Asia before finishing the season in Brazil. One item of note is that it looks like Jacques will be in the Renault for the rest of the season while Top Knot sits. Since Renault is set for next year it appears as though JV might end up at Sauber. It also appears as though Ralfie will be back in the car next week at Shanghai. He tested yesterday at Silverstone and seemed to be okay.
Now I come to the real reason of this post. Obviously the posts have tailed off a bit lately and as long as it is football season, they will continue to be spottier. However, the latest news from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway must be addressed.
For the record the changes will be that the race will now start at noon instead of 11:00 am. Carb Day will now be on the Friday before the race and in addition to practice and the pit stop competition, the MIPS race will be held. Practice each day will begin at noon rather than 11:00 am. And finally, the big one, qualifying returns to four days with a completely revised system. Each day only the 11 fastest will qualify. However, bumping is allowed and bumped cars will be allowed to retry. In fact, as near as I can tell by the rules as I have seen them, a car will be allowed up to twelve attempts to make the field.
So far, no change of the traditional Sunday opening of the track has been announced and with these changes I don’t expect one.
So what of these changes? First of all, the 11:00 am start time for practice was fine and I see no reason to change it. Seems gratuitous to me. The start time of the race is fine with me. Frankly they can start it at 1 and give everyone an extra hour in the morning. However, for Robby Gordon and anyone else attempting to do “the Double” it will just about kill any possibility of that. With Tony Stewart being a big news story this past year and him saying he would be there this year, one has to wonder if it is still feasible. The Carb Day being moved to Friday may prove to be fun as long as I am still able to get my cadre of pix!
As for qualifying, well I am going to take a wait and see approach to see if it works. It is such a radical change that I am having a tough time even imagining how well or poorly it will work.
While I am going to hold judgment for now I do have some comments about the changes in general. FTRG says he is doing this to help bring more teams in, entice the smaller teams to not wait until the last minute and increase television ratings. Well FTRG, if you wanted higher TV ratings and more money then you should have just kept your mouth shut back in 1994 and forgot about forming the IRL.
Don’t get me wrong the IRL is wonderful and CART was run by a group of owners who couldn’t agree on shit. But the bottom line is that there was nothing wrong with the Indianapolis 500. Now we have crappy TV ratings, barely enough cars to fill the field (and then only if FTRG pays according to some) and a drop in attendance at every event in May with the exception of Carb Day and the Parade.
FTRG, there is but one way to fix what you have done to the 500 and that is to increase the purse to make sure that everyone who qualifies makes money on it. It can’t be some crap shoot that only the top 5 make any money on. What incentive is there to come to Indy anymore? It costs a half a million to try to make the race and for what? A chance to make a couple million sure, but more likely a couple hundred thousand. It just doesn’t add up.
Once again we have a knee jerk reaction and unfortunately a boob who has no clue. Whether or not this pulls the 500 out of its doldrums and moves it back into the limelight it once enjoyed remains to be seen. What is already assured is that the one guy running the IRL is no better than the group of owners who ran CART.
Monday, September 13, 2004
John Kerry Sucks!
Now that the Democrats and Republicans have had their little parties er, conventions it is time to look forward to Election Day. As of this morning W is holding a sizable 12 point lead over John Kerry. Kerry is of course downplaying this and is asking why everyone thinks W got a bump in ratings from the convention. Alright Senator, if it was even after your convention and it is now not even, what happened? I guess people are just seeing you as the wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed worm you really are.
There is no doubt in my mind that this nation will re-elect W on November 2. Of course there is no doubt in my mind that people like Michael Moore, Ben Affleck and Al Gore will say the election was stolen, but who believes any of those nut cases anyway? No, there are legitimate reasons why people are not lining up to support John Kerry.
Any of you who read this page know I have issues with the war in Iraq and was against it from the get go. That does not mean I am against the President, it means I felt there were options available that didn’t call for a full military response. I was absolutely for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and I knew we would have to intervene to make it happen. However, I still think it could have been done covertly and with minimum bloodshed and loss of collateral.
Where my support for the Prez lies is in the fact that I believe he did what he thought was the right thing to do. And trust me, doing nothing was not an option. And doing what he believes is correct is how he is running the campaign and why he will win.
On the other hand we have John Kerry. Liberal Senator from Massachusetts. Now we all know what the people of the Hub State like when it comes to their politicians. That’s fine, as long as they keep to their selves. Unfortunately they always seem to have someone trying to get in the national limelight. This time around it is Kerry.
Kerry is a three time winner of the Purple Heart from the Vietnam war who then protested the war upon his discharge. Alright, no problem there. After all, regardless of what the conservatives say, you DO have a right to speak your mind in this country even if it does disagree with what they think. Personally I would never burn an American flag, but I would defend to the death someone’s right to do so.
So we have John Kerry who went so far as to oppose the war, then voted for war when W wanted the power to go to Iraq. Still not a problem per se. However, this is where he starts to lose credibility. Once he becomes a candidate for the Democrats he starts to oppose the war. He makes excuses why he voted for it and tries to take the opposite side seemingly just to have a differing position than that of the President and his opposition.
Kerry loses what little face he has left when he goes so far as to trumpet his Vietnam service and his Purple Hearts as one of the major cornerstones of his campaign. His service that he opposed the minute he was discharged. And a war that he now says he would never have voted for. One minute he loves war and what he did (when it suits him) and one minute he hates war and wants nothing to do with it (when his actual record bites him in the ass).
Kerry is a hypocrite and America sees it. Maybe W isn’t the best person to be President, but I certainly feel better with him than the prospect of having Kerry being the leader of the free world.
Like I said, the Americans are growing weary of his flip flopping message and are seeing through his deceit and hypocrisy. Come November 2 America will wake up, go to the polls and do the right thing, re-elect George W. Bush to a second term!
There is no doubt in my mind that this nation will re-elect W on November 2. Of course there is no doubt in my mind that people like Michael Moore, Ben Affleck and Al Gore will say the election was stolen, but who believes any of those nut cases anyway? No, there are legitimate reasons why people are not lining up to support John Kerry.
Any of you who read this page know I have issues with the war in Iraq and was against it from the get go. That does not mean I am against the President, it means I felt there were options available that didn’t call for a full military response. I was absolutely for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and I knew we would have to intervene to make it happen. However, I still think it could have been done covertly and with minimum bloodshed and loss of collateral.
Where my support for the Prez lies is in the fact that I believe he did what he thought was the right thing to do. And trust me, doing nothing was not an option. And doing what he believes is correct is how he is running the campaign and why he will win.
On the other hand we have John Kerry. Liberal Senator from Massachusetts. Now we all know what the people of the Hub State like when it comes to their politicians. That’s fine, as long as they keep to their selves. Unfortunately they always seem to have someone trying to get in the national limelight. This time around it is Kerry.
Kerry is a three time winner of the Purple Heart from the Vietnam war who then protested the war upon his discharge. Alright, no problem there. After all, regardless of what the conservatives say, you DO have a right to speak your mind in this country even if it does disagree with what they think. Personally I would never burn an American flag, but I would defend to the death someone’s right to do so.
So we have John Kerry who went so far as to oppose the war, then voted for war when W wanted the power to go to Iraq. Still not a problem per se. However, this is where he starts to lose credibility. Once he becomes a candidate for the Democrats he starts to oppose the war. He makes excuses why he voted for it and tries to take the opposite side seemingly just to have a differing position than that of the President and his opposition.
Kerry loses what little face he has left when he goes so far as to trumpet his Vietnam service and his Purple Hearts as one of the major cornerstones of his campaign. His service that he opposed the minute he was discharged. And a war that he now says he would never have voted for. One minute he loves war and what he did (when it suits him) and one minute he hates war and wants nothing to do with it (when his actual record bites him in the ass).
Kerry is a hypocrite and America sees it. Maybe W isn’t the best person to be President, but I certainly feel better with him than the prospect of having Kerry being the leader of the free world.
Like I said, the Americans are growing weary of his flip flopping message and are seeing through his deceit and hypocrisy. Come November 2 America will wake up, go to the polls and do the right thing, re-elect George W. Bush to a second term!
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