Kerry's supporters exit his campaign... [View All]

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in huge numbers to throw their support to the Clark camp in record numbers. This, and this alone has accounted for the large discrepancies in the polls, here and across the country. What else could explain the phenomenon of the plummeting poll numbers of the Kerry campaign and the unexplained upswing in the Clark camp.

Why the mass exodus from the Kerry campaign to join that of a polar opposite nominee who is clearly on the record as anti IWR? These are the growing questions that we should all be asking as the evolving leading player on the world's stage.

Please tell me that in this crucial time in our country, when the very balance of democracy is being held up to scrutiny across the rest of the world, that you are not basing your vote on something as transient as who looks better in a uniform and served their country the best in a war that was the most worthwhiled.

The very fact that Clark could come out of complete obscurity and do this much damage to the Kerry campaign must cause many people here some serious angst. The rhetoric that has divided the democratic party and has managed to pit and split good democrats one against another, may, or not be a ploy designed by a bunch of out of touch politocrats to serve and gratify their own special interests and agendas.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, all I am asking is, rethink and reevaluate your loyalties to your candidate, and then take a good, long look at the other candidates before you accuse them of distributing tainted koolaid, or adapting the paranoid point of view that we need somebody with a bunch of pot metal embellishments on their chest with no executive or elected experience to lead our country. Could it be that the solution lies somewhere in the middle, could it be that we, the American public are much more saavy then the powers that be give us credit for? Just food for thought.

I have tried to give all these political scenarios a great deal of thought, while trying to derive an openminded opinion based on my quest for information. From the mass media, to the often confluent and fervent opinions of the messageboards and blogs I encountered across the information super highway, one thing stood out, most Americans agree on most vital issues, they just disagree on what platform, party and candidate will get us there. You see, we all have more in common here than you think.

I considered John Kerry as my fist choice early last year, but as I was presented with new options almost monthly, I eventually fell upon the Dean campaign in early June of 2003. I then studied Dennis Kucinich and then the much hyped "Draft Wes Clark" campaign. I looked and studied everyone of these capable men with much thought and care, and came away with a clear and decisive conclusion that Howard Dean, although not perfect, has a vision for what this country needs at this time and at this moment in history.

I ask everyone here to take this weekend and the long, upcoming holiday weekend to not only re-evaluate your choice of candidate, but to consider where this country is headed and what the consequences will be if we don't put aside our differences and do everything that is required of us to find some common ground and unite to get this scourge that is bush* behind us, once and for all.