John Kerry isn’t a legitimate choice

How can The Herald expect us to take its endorsement of John Kerry seriously when rather than providing us with objective reasons for the endorsement, it provides us with Democratic talking points?

For one thing, the endorsement glaringly omits, neglects and ignores the corrupt reasons that our coalition wasn’t more “global:” The oil for food scandal at the U.N. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the program was used by Saddam to create a true “coalition of the bribed,” which includes France, Germany and Russia.

President Bush chose, without the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, to err on the side of keeping Americans, and by extension innocent people everywhere, safer from the threat of even more attacks by the barbarians who are now occupied in Iraq rather than in America.

I dropped my subscription to the ultra-liberal fish-wrapper to the south and chose The Herald in the hopes of finding some sanity in a media world of limp, leftist echoes. So, they don’t like the president – that’s their prerogative, but to suggest that the wobbly, monotone senator from Taxachusetts is a legitimate alternative should embarrass them.

Steven Pomper

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