Things Kerry must bring up tonight

[genius]

If these areas come up, Kerry needs to bring up these points.

Environment: The raising of arsenic and cyanide standards in water. Bush reversed his exec order on the arsenic but not on cyanide. This won't go over well with parents. He also needs to bring up the recent alarms about the speeding up of global warming.

Secret energy meetings: This is about the power to our homes and some people had energy bills that tripled. What are they hiding.

Military: He needs to bring up how badly military personnel and their families are treated. Camp Pendleton's moldy, rat-infested housing is a good example.

Terrorism: He needs to re-iterate that 9/11 happened on his watch. He should also mention the name of the memo and the Secretary of the Treasury's reason for leaving. He needs to confirm in advance whether the CIA met with Bin Laden in an American hospital in France and then let him get released. This would make Bush look really bad if the reports are true.

Elections: He should demand that all computers have a paper trail. If the programming is honest, what is there to hide? Democracy demands fair elections. (BTW, the election in Afghanistan is being disputed: we can't even provide trusted elections in country's we invade.)


Dred Scott: Why would Bush bring up a pre-civil war case that was overturned by the Civil War Amendments when discussing Supreme Court appointments? This is a code word among anti-choice people for Roe v. Wade. Opposition to this is a way of saying he will make all abortion illegal.
The news media bias and their willingness to show uncut ads for Bush when they won't even allow the names of dead soldiers to be broadcast.

Polls: The fact that most polls poll more Republicans than Democrats even though more Democrats vote, thereby skewing the results.

[slor]

1. He also really has to explain his vote for/against...

the $87 Billion package. He needs to point that the chimp threatened to veto the bill if it came out of the tax cuts, and the difference between the senate and house versions. This is the one area where I really get angry at his lack of details. He needs to slam this tonight. It may also send mr pretzel pathological over the top again.

[genius]

2. Right. HE needs to explain that he wanted the military-not Halliburton

to get the money and since Bush would not guarantee him that the military would get the money, he voted against it. His no vote was a protest in favor of a guarantee of funding for the troops.

[genius]

3. Also, Bush got the $87 billion and it didn't go to the troops. Much is

missing and Halliburton got it's share.

[tokenlib]

5. I still think the best and most cocise response would be...

...I voted for the $87 billion when it came out of your precious tax cuts for the rich and pampered. I voted against it when the invoice got passed down to our children. Short and to the point.

[tokenlib]

4. It must be tough for Kerry to prepare...

I think we all have issues that we think would be sure fire ammunition. The plight of the veterans when the VA is understaffed and underfunded--as a response to the Bush/GOP "support" of the troops. So many issues, so little time.

Frivolous lawsuits? Hell, these Bushies and the GOP have been so busy helping corporate america evade responsibility--it is legitimate lawsuits that are threatened... I'd like to see that brought up too.

But damn, he only has such limited time--and he is used to fully explaining issues versus concise soundbites. I just hope he can do as well as he did in the first debate. When Bush is wrong on so many issues--it is hard to stay on a coherent message.

Hope we all feel better when it's over tonight!!

[genius]

6. The cyanide is big. Children at least shower in if- even if they drink

bottled water.