Thanks DU for your great suggestions to send my mother

[cynatnite]

I carefully picked a few things which I know is important to her and here is a snip of what I told her. I sent her three emails and these are comments I made from each of them:

"On the most divisive issues he has shown he is anything but the compassionate conservative he claims to be. Abortions have risen under his watch while they lowered under Clinton’s. Bush wants an amendment which defines marriage between a marriage and a woman. He also believes states should recognize same-sex partners with the same rights as everyone else against his own party’s beliefs. Poverty has risen, more people are out of work and his claim that helping the rich helps the not-so-rich is at best lip service. Corporations such as Halliburton found a friend in the White House who will arrange for no-bid contracts, give them loopholes with which to thicken their own pockets and have had their hands held out because now our government willingly hands money out to whoever can scratch their back."

"As a result, the Democrats mobilized and we found our voice once again. We spoke up against what we saw as wrong in this country. We spoke up about Cheney’s company Halliburton, we spoke up about the immorality of this war in Iraq, we spoke up about the people in this country who suffered under the oppressive boot of censorship in the name of patriotism, and we spoke up against a president who had done little for the working class except to pay them lip service."

"Protesting a war is no small matter. If the Vietnam War was as illegal and as immoral as most claim now, what was so wrong with Kerry protesting it in those days? If the war in Iraq is so illegal and immoral are we wrong for protesting it? Are we less than citizens by raging against it?

Kerry didn’t protest the war lightly. And I do not protest this war lightly either. Our voice against both is a common one. Our troops are bleeding and dying for a mistake as they did so many years ago. This does not make us anti-American. This shows our love for a military that was good to us and it shows our love for our country. To protest a mistake and to stop this mistake and the one from over 30 years ago is proof that we love our country and all it stands for.

I respect John Kerry and given his record from his time as a swift boat commander through working in the senate he is the best and only man who can be president during these troubled times. To put this country back together as one, to work to bring our troops home as feasibly and as soon as possible, to bring our allies back to us and to attempt to right the wide-ranging mistakes Bush has made during these last four years is what is needed.

John Kerry will not ignore warnings such as Bush did less than a month prior to 9/11. John Kerry will not hand this country’s security over to the UN or any other country. John Kerry will not alienate the world to such an extent Bush has. John Kerry will not disenfranchise the middle class and the poor in favor of the super-corporations which now have a larger voice than the citizens of this country.

He will do the opposite and his record proves that."