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I am writing this with pride at the collective wisdom of the American electorate and the spirit of democracy that underpins this great country. The United States, the free world and the new concept that Muslim nations deserve the opportunity to live in freedom and democracy, dodged a bullet last night with the re-election of President Bush. 125 million Americans spoke with their votes, defied Osama Bin Laden's endorsement of John Kerry, thumbed their noses at Jacques Chirac's and Mohammad al Baradei's attempt to influence American politics, and rejected the blatant falsehoods of George Soros, Michael Moore, MoveOn.org and the mainstream media, led by the New York Times nationally and the Toledo Blade locally. The president the patronizing left calls a "dummy", "cowboy"and "liar", received the largest vote count in US history and won by some 3.5 million votes in the popular vote, which he had lost by 500 votes in 2000. John Kerry salvaged what little class he had left and graciously conceded the election, disappointing a small army of lawyers. Good for him. This offsets to a some extent the destructive, self-serving opportunism his entire history suggests. As a Republican volunteer here in Ohio, who was so terrified of a Kerry presidency that I spent hours knocking on doors and making phone calls to undecided voters, not to mention additional hours trying to "educate" a host of my fellow Indians around the country and the world, a SNOWBALL HAD MORE CHANCE IN HELL on election night than John Kerry to win in Ohio, as well as in Nevada, NM and Iowa. Kerry joined the hapless Richard Nixon, who had the grace and dignity to not challenge all the dead people who voted for his hated rival, the original JFK, in Illinois in 1960 to save the country from any further political trauma. The reasons I was terrified of a Kerry victory included a) the embarrassment of having two lawyers as president and vice-president, with NO executive experience and NO legislative achievements. What on earth were the Democrats thinking? b) the devastating effect a Kerry presidency would have had on India because of his visceral opposition to free trade and outsourcing because of his total subservience to his union supporters, who don't seem to care that more jobs are created in the US from insourcing because most of these are not union jobs. c) the truth that I had finally confirmed from actual Iraqis that 90% of Iraq is experiencing unprecedented reconstruction in roads, sanitary systems, water treatment plants, schools, hospitals, etc. I am outraged that the media has hidden this from the world and from Americans. The details are on www.voicesofiraq.com. After only 20 months since the Saddam regime fell, less than 10% of Iraq remains to be pacified. It took from 4 to 7 years to complete the job in Germany and Japan after WW-II, and our troops have stayed in those countries to protect them for decades thereafter. d) a Kerry victory would have been a clear victory for Osama Bin Laden, who had endorsed him, and for worldwide Islamo-fascism, which had NOT been confronted until they overstepped their bounds on 9/11 and discovered to their dismay that President Bush was not an appeaser like his predecessor. It would also have been a victory for vicious propagandists like George Soros, who funded BushandSaudis.com and MoveOn.org and their blatant falsehoods, and Michael Moore and his blatant propaganda disguised as a documentary. e) it would have been incredibly embarrassing to have a US President who was a war hero - to the Vietcong, after 50,000 Americans lost their lives in Vietnam. Kerry has an honored place in the Ho Chi Minh War Museum, which is embarrassing enough. f) Kerry's rollbacks of tax rate cuts would have reduced revenues to the US Treasury and cost US jobs. The "rich" did not get that way by being stupid, as Clinton's "luxury tax" of a few years ago in a failed attempt to soak the rich showed everyone by devastating industries that provide luxury goods and services for the rich. g) The ideas that Kerry and Edwards had for our health care system would have made Hillary Clinton seem like a free-marketer by comparison. h) Finally, the thought of a loose cannon, self-serving, hypochondriac like Teresa Heinz-Kerry as First Lady made my skin crawl when compared with the lovely and gracious Laura Bush. The flip side to this is the inevitable re-ascendancy of Clinton & Clinton who will become mythological figures within the Democrat party after this year's debacle. The fun part for us Republicans will be the "un-civil war" that will take place in the Democrat party between their insane George Soros/Michael Moore/Howard Dean wing, and the Clinton wing, which can incredibly now be considered the sane and rational wing of the Democrat party.
