Although it is true that both parties are controlled by big business and their lobbyist, and that democrats are more of a centrist party than a leftist party, this time around it more than ever important to vote for Kerry against Bush. Our civil liberties, and our social liberalism that we have gained in the last 40 years are in a crash course against Bush and his fundamentalist "born again" and anti-intellectual values. Just consider for example ban on stem cell research and the denial of global climate change, which the scientific community has been fighting with the Bush administration for the last 4 years. (check out this week edition of science mag (www.sciencemag.org))Furthermore, if anybody truly believes that America is a free-market capitalistic country, should think twice about the government subsidies that we give to the military-industrial complex. Think about it, it takes them millions of dollars to drop one bomb, and building of that bomb is contracted out by American government, it pays the fat cats very well to wage war. America is not a capitalistic country; it is full of favoritism of the certain groups by the people in power. I say we should go on a NO CARB diet, Cheny Ashcroft Rumsfeld Bush Along with Zmag form sweetiepie, checkout www.democracynow.org "these soldiers fighting in petroleum wars/ thinking that they are dying for the holiest cause"