When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Proverbs 29:2

John Kerry is a better choice for President of the United States than George W. Bush.  Kerry has dedicated his adult life to serving the people.  He fought this country’s enemies on sea and on land.  When he returned, he had the courage to speak against a war he knew was wrong, even though doing so made him unpopular with many.  As a young district attorney, he prosecuted violent offenders and brought new weapons to the fight on crime.  Kerry also served as Lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.  As a U.S. Senator, he led the fight to protect veterans, and drove terrorist funders underground with his investigation of the BCCI bank. 

George W. Bush has presided over one of the greatest downturns in U.S. history.  He will be the first President to preside over a net job loss since Herbert Hoover in the Great Depression.  In four short years, Bush’s massive tax cuts squandered the greatest surpluses the country had ever seen and left the nation with its largest deficit ever.  Bush let the world’s sympathy and good will slip away after September 11.  Instead of working to turn the Arab world against the terrorists, he launched a war in Iraq which attracted thousands of more converts to their cause.  Bush’s conduct of that war has left American troops undermanned and surrounded by a hostile population.  The result has been thousands of U.S. casualties and an unstable Iraq.  Worst of all, The Bush Administration has stripped away the freedoms that made America great at home while shockingly violating civil rights abroad.

This year, the choices for President of the United States could not be more distinct.  For four more years of fear, vote Bush.  To bring hope back, vote Kerry.