Open Letter to Kerry Writers

If anyone working for the Kerry campiagn sees this damn website, please pass on these stock answers to Mr. Kerry.

If someone asks you why you 'for the war and then voted against supporting the troops', please respond by saying:

I voted to give the President the authority to go to war because I trusted that Mr. Bush would execute the war the right way. I voted against the money package becuase, by that time, Mr. Bush didnt execute the war the right war and had proven that he couldnt be trusted to make good decisions. I wasn't going to write a blank check to a man I don't trust.

And if possible, follow it up with:

Further, over 7 of the 20 billion dollars for reconstruction in that second bill was money earmarked for Halliburton. President Bush says that by voting I didnt support the troops ... no, that's flat out wrong. I think we could have done better. I think we can do better. Lining the pockets of oil barons isnt my idea of supporting the troops.

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On the topic of jobs I assume that Bush will either skirt the issue or, more likley, insist in a very Orwellian way that the economy is strong and getting stronger. So Kerry can respond with a Dick Cheney zinger. I suggest Mr. Kerry say this at some point in the jobs debate:

Your rhetoric on a jobs and the economy, Mr. President, would be a lot more credible if there was a record to back it up. There isn't.

You cannot continue to mislead the American people by insisting during a Presidential debate that the economy is strong and getting stronger.

You are the first President since Depression-era Herbert Hoover to reside over a net loss in jobs ... workers' wages are falling, median family income has dropped, an additional 5 million people now live in poverty, 20% of American children live in poverty and millions more live without health insurance.

All of this, Mr. President, happened on your watch.