Ironic: Kerry is touring to get benefits for children, while * tours to

take benefits away from the elderly, widows, orphans and the disabled.

Remind me, which candidate got the "values vote"?

How sad.

:kick:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002259604_kerry02.html

Every Washington child deserves health insurance

By John Kerry

Special to The Times


American families put kids first every day, working hard to give their children opportunities they never had. Washington, D.C., however, turns a blind eye as 11 million children in America — 161,650 in Washington state alone — go without health insurance.

As I traveled the country last year, I had the special privilege of meeting great families every day — good people who love their communities, love our country and are determined to build a better life for their kids. Their stories are the driving force behind my Kids First plan.

Since I introduced my bill in January, more than 500,000 people have signed up to be citizen co-sponsors and thousands more have called in to give their personal testimony about why insuring every child is so important.

A father from Sumas said, "I come from a small community... and there (are) many families up there that go to school, and their kids don't have health insurance, and they miss many days of school, and then they're held back grades, and then they feel that since they're held back they shouldn't continue, and they end up going out and working on these farms for very little money, and they don't live up to the full American vision of success."

not discuss the issues that truly matter to the people of this nation.

I think we all know that John Kerry would have been the "real values president".

It's funny yet so, so sad.

Now that fits perfectly. * is creating and feeding the diversion; Kerry is trying to get the REAL issue on the national agenda.

Social Security Reform is Simply a Diversion
by Robert B. Reich
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0502-23.htm

excerpt:

The president just ended a 60-day whirlwind tour to try to sell his Social Security plan. But almost everyone inside the Beltway, and a growing number outside, know it's going nowhere.
Polls show most Americans don't want to tinker with Social Security. Many Republicans, facing re-election, don't want to touch it. Why still flog it?

Because Social Security is a place holder. As long as it remains on the domestic agenda, it blocks consideration of the real domestic crisis President Bush doesn't want to touch: the health care system.

Consider the symptoms. Medicare, the government's health care program for the elderly, is heading toward bankruptcy faster than Social Security. Its future unfunded liabilities are seven times larger. Social Security is projected to be in financial trouble in four decades; Medicare, within 10 years.

full article at http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0502-23.htm

people who think that Jesus would approve of the war and of bombing abortion clinics. :eyes:

Someday the majority of Americans may realize that it's Democratic candidates like Kerry who are fighting for real moral values. I just hope it doesn't take complete economic depression first.