I'm voting for John Kerry, plain and simple. The reasons are: -- War in Iraq: Some might say that Bush should be allowed to clean up his own mess at least this one time, given that all his business ventures have ended up as failures, due to which the problems he created had to be cleaned up by the next big honcho. I beg to differ. The chimp is incapable of cleaning up after he's done. What else can you expect from a failed businessman? Richard Clarke and the rest of the CIA people, with the exception of George Tenet(the "slam dunk" guy), were warning Bush that links between Saddam and Al Qaeda were more than murky. Yet, he makes another decision. Guess he doesn't learn from his failures, after all. The neocon chickenhawks are making all the decisions in the White House, and many of them are Israeli citizens as well. So it wasn't exactly America's security they had in mind when they made the erroneous decision of deposing Saddam Hussein. The mustachoed leader of Iraq, albeit a dictator, was a secularist and at at least had Al Qaeda in check. 1000 Americans are dead, with almost 7k injured, and the numbers are sure to rise. Estimates show that the insurgents are 20000 strong, as opposed to only 5,000 a year ago. This is all Bush's doing. More than 4000 Americans have died under this presidency, yet Bush has managed to trick Americans into believing that America is more secure under him. --The economy: It's been heading on a downward spiral ever since daddy's boy took office. With no opposition from the democratic party, the Republican party has free rein to wreak havoc and forward their own agendas without ever having to think of the ramifications. America works best when there is an opposition that can challenge the incumbent, as has been the case historically. The republican party has played the politics of fear to make credulous citizens toe the conservative party line. Furthermore, as one recent poll elucidated, many Americans still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11. --Immigration: Who has more to gain with illegal immigration? Corporate bigwigs of course. Ergo, amnesty will more likely be a republican doing. Border security guards are so thinly spread that even one hundred sombrero-wearing chicanos could pass by with ease, and the guards wouldn't have a clue. Latin America is quickly becoming Al Qaeda's new enclave. So, if the government keeps turning a blind eye on this problem, we can sure as hell expect another 9/11. It's the Reagan administration that provided amnesty to illegals. John Kerry is pushing amnesty also, but given that it's a republican controlled senate(and will be so even after the election), the chances that his amnesty bill will pass are slim to none. --Healthcare: Almost 40 million Americans are without healthcare. That's a 10% increase since the Clinton era. Maybe it's true that spoon-feeding isn't the way to go, but whatever Bush is doing sure ain't working. --No Child left behind has left all children behind: The idea sounded good on paper, but since it's very ill financed, it's not working. --Erosion of Civil liberties: The FBI can pick you up and lock you in jail as an enemy combatant without attorney privileges. Now that's scary. There have been instances when people have been interrogating only for calling Bush an a$$hole, which by the way he is, given his tract record. --Gay rights: Once upon a time, when we were living in caves, marriage was a novel concept, and I have no doubt in mind that the idea was met with resistance by those who peferred the status quo. Now, we're at another juncture of history, where we have a chance to move forward. But oh no, Bush plays politics with it. In 2000, on Larry King Live, the then-governor of Texas said that it was up to the state to decide gay marriage. Nobody is a bigger flip-flopper than Dubya in my mind. --The religious right: Bush is clearly in bed with the religious right. I don't want Christian fundamentalists to spread their bigotry and hatred for other religions as much as I don't want Muslims to do the same. Secularism is the key. I don't want no theocracy in America. The idea is so passe. --Bush is anti-science: Stem-cell research clearly is the future, and could in fact create numerous jobs in the biotech sector. For Bush, Bible is Science and modern Science is Satanism. Embryonic stem-cell lines are almost exhausted. Stem cells can differentiate into any cell types. It has one hell of a prospect, if only it were funded well. --Affirmative action: Bush opposes affirmative action, yet he went to Yale due to his dad's legacy. Talk about hypocricy. He's almost like one of those white trash homeless losers addicted to crystal meth incessantly berating niggers for moral decadence in America. I don't like people who look for scapegoats. and finally(drumroll please) --Bush is a bumbling nincompoop: It's clear folks, Dick Cheney is the real President. I don't want a balding, weak-hearted sap on pacemaker to make executive decisions. I want someone stronger. These are some of the reasons why I'm voting for Hanoi Kerry. I'm really not voting for Kerry. I'm just voting against Bush. I would vote for McCain in a heartbeat if he was on the Republican ticket.