I've been thinking a lot lately about how we all should be surrogates for Kerry, and about how Republicans have been sending talking points to the campaign offices which then in turn write them out as a letter from a regular citizen to the local paper. So to counter balance that, we should all be bombarding newspapers across the country wit letter denouncing Bush and praising Kerry, more or less. To my surprise, my first letter got published in the local rag, the
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Here it in the extended entry...
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/aug04/253568.asp
Petty questions about Sen. John Kerry's war record are distracting from real debate about real issues that need discussing. The right is criticizing Kerry for not being injured badly enough when jumping off of his boat to save a man's life in Vietnam, while President Bush can't prove that he showed up for National Guard duty.
I can understand Bush wanting to keep the media light off of himself. He has done a dismal job of running the country, he has the worst record of job creation of any president since the Great Depression and he led the country into war for reasons that are shaky at best and with no plan for getting out.
An incumbent should be campaigning on his record of accomplishments, not desperately smearing his opponent.
Matthew Grapengieser
Milwaukee