Reply #15: You speak for most of us Bill [View All]

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I too believe Kerry's IWR vote was one of cowardice and done completely for political expediency, just in case Saddam did have WMD.

I don't believe these so-called "side agreements" to NAFTA were ever meant to be anything but a bone thrown to the unions to get them on board for "free trade".

I also vehemently disagree with the so-called "war on drugs" which has done nothing but increase both drug use and incarceration rates for young black and latino males.

I also think fighting a so-called "war on terror" the way it has been fought for the last 20+ years will not eradicate terror, nor provide for our national security.

However, I will vote for John Kerry in November.

I will also vote for my local Democratic state legislator (whom I've done websites for in past campaigns, and donated money to), my state Senator (a progressive, openly gay liberal, just like his predecessor), my Democratic congresscritter (a bit of a disappointment, but a D no less).

I have been a political activist since my teens in the mid-80s. I got my start demonstrating against apartheid and the Contras in Nicaragua. Paul Wellstone inspired me to join the Democratic Party, when he showed it was okay to practice civil disobedience and vote Democratic, too.

If my commitment somehow doesn't pass some Democrat's litmus test, that's too damn bad. This party is just as much my party as it is their party. And I refuse to be driven out of it again.