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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 4:28
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Subject: [MOPO] Surprise hometown
endorsement
Whatever your leanings politically, this is certainly an interesting turn
of events.
KERRY's HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER ENDORSES BUSH!
Lowell Sun Endorsement: George W. Bush for president
Sunday, October 03, 2004 - It's about national
security.
That's the key issue on the minds of
Americans planning to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential
election.
They must decide whether Republican President George
W. Bush or Sen. John F. Kerry, a Democrat, can provide the
leadership to safeguard America from foreign terrorism.
Americans
aren't fools. They know that without safe cities and towns, America will
lose its greatness. Our cherished freedoms and sacred liberties will be
diminished, along with our opportunities for economic prosperity and our basic
pursuit of happiness.
Our children and their children will live
vastly different lives if we fail to guarantee a future free of
turmoil.
Islamic extremists, both here and abroad, have one
purpose: To destroy America and halt the spread of d! emocracy and religious
tolerance around the globe.
They'd like to be plotting in our
streets right now. They'd like to be sowing murder and mayhem with
suicide bombers and hostage-takings, and spreading fear in the heartland and
everywhere else. They'd like to be wearing us down and bringing our
nation to its knees.
Since the devastating terror attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001, one American leader has maintained an unbending resolve
to protect our homeland and interest against Islamic savages and those foreign
governments appeasing them.
That leader is President
Bush.
While out-of-touch U.S. politicians and world leaders
have attacked President Bush's tactics, they can't question his steely
commitment to keep America safe.
In the ashes of ground zero,
where nearly 3,000 innocent Americans perished, President Bush vowed to find
the perpetrators, in domestic cells and distant lands, and bring them to
justice. He said he will do all that is humanly possible and necessary
to make certain that terrorists never strike again on U.S.
soil.
Can anyone deny that President Bush has not
delivered? America the terrorists' No. 1 target has recovered from
its tragic wounds and rebounded. It remains safe to this
day.
What might a lesser leader have done, faced with the
daunting task of deciding America's course against withering, partisan attacks
from Democrats, media propagandists, disingenuous U.N. officials and
disloyal White House operatives selling their souls for profit during a time
of war?
A lesser leader might have caved in. President Bush
has stood his ground.
In this year's election, the question isn't
whether we are safer now than we were four years ago. We already know
the answer. Sure we are and that's because of President Bush. The
critical question is: Four ! years from now, will America be safer than it is
today?
In our book, Americans have to place their trust in
President Bush. He's proven to be as sturdy as a mighty oak when it
comes to saying what he means, meaning what he says and acting
decisively.
When it comes to the war on terror, President Bush
means to keep our military strong and our country secure.
John
Kerry, on the other hand, has all the attributes of the shape of water when it
comes to telling us what he believes and what he'd do for America. Like
incoming and outgoing tides, Kerry is content to go with the flow. In a
dangerous world infested with sharks, Kerry would be chum at America's
expense.
We in Massachusetts know John Kerry. He got
his first taste of politics 32 years ago in the cities and towns of Greater
Lowell.
In his 20 years in the U.S. Senate, Kerry, a Navy
war hero, hasn't risen above the rank of seaman f! or his uninspiring
legislative record. He's been inconsistent on major issues. First
he's for the 1991 Persian Gulf War, then he opposes it. First he's for
the war in Iraq, then he's against it. First he's for a strong
U.S. defense, then he votes against military weapons programs.
First he's for the U.S. Patriot Act, then he opposes
it.
Kerry's solution to stop terrorism? He'd go to the
U.N. and build a consensus. How naive. France's Jacques
Chirac, Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
and other Iraq oil-for-food scam artists don't want America to succeed.
They want us brought down to their level. And more and more, Kerry
sounds just like them. In a recent campaign speech, Kerry said America
was in the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
No
doubt John Kerry sincerely wants to serve his country, but we believe he's the
wrong man! , in the wrong place, at the wrong
time.
Americans should think back three years ago to the
smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. There among the mist lay the
images and memories of fallen firefighters, police, a Catholic chaplain and
ordinary working citizens moms, dads, sons, daughters.
President
Bush, through heartfelt tears, told us never to forget the twisted carnage and
the massacre of the innocents. Yet some of us are
forgetting.
President Bush told us the attacks must never happen
again. Yet some of us are wavering because of the brave sacrifice of
soldiers that our nation's security demands.
Well, President Bush
hasn't forgotten. Nor has he lost the courage and conviction to do what
is right for America.
We know if there is one thing the enemy
fears above all else, it is that George Bush's iron will is stronger than his
iron won't.
The Sun proudly endorses the re! -election of
President George W. Bush.
"More than two
thousand years ago, at a time when the people in the British Isles and in most
parts of Western Europe were living the lives of savages, occupied in
fighting, hunting, and fishing, dwelling in rude huts, clad in skins,
ingnorant of everything that we call civilization, Rome was the centre of a
world in many ways as civilized as ours is
now..."
- Page 6,
Ancient Rome, The Lives of Great Men, by Mary Agnes Hamilton,
Oxford
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