Thursday night Nicole and I drove up to Springfield for the Kerry-Edwards rally. We had to wait in line for over an hour to get into the event, which didn't get under way until Midnight, and it was worth it. Before Thursday I hadn't seen Kerry go after Bush's record with quite enough passion. But Thursday night both Johns had some teeth! Finally Kerry said aloud that this guy is not fit for the office. Finally he called Bush on the carpet for the hypocrisy of preaching small government while leading us into record high deficits. Kerry spoke like a hero and it was truly thrilling to be with fifteen-thousand people who understood what a fiction the GOP convention was. Loads of kids from nearby Wittenberg U. were in attendance, but blue-collar workers comprised probably the largest demographic present--and attacks on Bush's ill-advised rush into the Iraq war got the biggest cheers of the night. Fox news and its ilk would have us believe that middle America supports Bush's hawkish ethos, but I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears the excitement when Kerry said that Bush had lied.
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Lied about what?
Q: Lied about what?
A: Promising not to engage in nation-building; Telling congress and the American people that Iraq has nuclear capabilities; Implying a connection between Iraq and 9/11; Preaching small government (yet creating new bureaucracies) and fiscal responsibility (while running up record high deficits)
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