{"id":988,"date":"2003-12-29T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/democrats-for-bush\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T00:56:14","slug":"democrats-for-bush-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/democrats-for-bush-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats for Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an interesting piece with a troubling conclusion. Democrats must consider how many in their party will vote for Bush. Too many voters are impressed by the bully cowboy. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Democrat breaks with tradition<\/a> By P. Amy MacKinnon <\/p>\n

When Mr. Bush first ran for president in 2000, I found both his politics and his campaign methods anathema to the American concept of justice. I was with the many who questioned whether his intellect, interest, and experience<\/b> were commensurate with the demands of being the leader of the free world. I didn’t approve of his so-called middle-class tax cuts, nor his incorporating nuclear power into his energy plan, nor his judgment in appointing an attorney general inclined to sheathe immodest works of art.<\/p>\n

But then Sept. 11 happened. Our nation needed the strength of a leader, and I wondered where we’d find one.<\/p>\n

For nearly 25 years, America has been under attack by Muslim fundamentalists – attacks virtually unanswered by all presidents as far back as Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n

We’ve somehow confused the systematic massacre of Americans for random acts of violence, though the collective onslaught – catalogued even incompletely – seems in retrospect to be a clear declaration of war: ….<\/p>\n

So in November, I’ll break with tradition and vote for a Republican. I’ll place my trust, fears, and future in the hands of a man who has shown the world what it means to lead a nation. It’s a tradition of leadership that began with Washington and Lincoln, continued with FDR, and has been resurrected by Bush. It’s a tradition I expect our future presidents to follow.<\/p>\n

\u2022 P. Amy MacKinnon, a freelance writer, has worked for Democrats in Congress and the Massachusetts State House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an interesting piece with a troubling conclusion. Democrats must consider how many in their party will vote for Bush. Too many voters are impressed by the bully cowboy. mjh A Democrat breaks with tradition By P. Amy MacKinnon When Mr. Bush first ran for president in 2000, I found both his politics and … Continue reading Democrats for Bush<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}