My Passionate support of John Kerry.

[Corey_Baker08]

I didn't really know much about politics up until the past couple of years. While I found myself caught up in the Gore/Bush 2000 election as a fourth grader, I soon shifted focus and lost touch of the political world. It wasn't until September 11 that i regained my passion of politics as a 5th grader. I remember that day like it was yesterday, being in gym class as it was announced over the intercom wondering what was to come and if it was truly the end of the world.

In those days even though I supported Gore in 2000, a year later I was a Bush fan because of September 11. I would watch all of his speeches, I cheered when he stood on top of the remains of the world trade center and promised payback, and I mourned for the victims.

Like most Americans I was supportive of my President and my country. I thought that no one could lead us better than George W Bush. Then the ignorance of my youth wore off the day my mom came home crying because she and my dad had just lost their jobs to cheap overseas labor markets. I was soon to get my own job at a restaurant at 14 years old and start fighting for myself.

I helped with what I could giving money, offering support and helping with what I could. Year after year eviction after eviction I came to know that things must change. Thats when he came along, It was Presidential candidate John Kerry.

I knew from the start that he was my choice, he was my hope, he was my dream, he was my President. He was truly fighting for me and my middle class family. He shared the same values and the same beliefs that I did. From the war in Iraq that we both supported was a simple shared message,The commander in chief should not send our troops into harms way because he wants to, but only because we have to."

I soon found myself campaigning day and night, day and night. i began volunteering and soon enough I was getting calls from the Democratic National Committee asking me to travel to Ohio to some rallies to serve as a voice for teens everywhere,unfortunately my finances or my schedule would allow me.

I saw Kerry at a rally in Dayton,Ohio on October 19, 2004. It was my first political rally ever and my dads Union allowed us very close seats. I was only standing a few feet away from the man that I think i admire most in the world. There was so much intensity and passion in every word he spoke that night, I laughed, and I cheered and I cried that night thinking of what the future would hold.

Then came November 2, and it was all taken away within 24 short hours. for days and weeks and even months after the election I found myself in a true state of reflection, I found myself feeling as if my best friend had just been taken away from me. He was a best friend that gave me a hope and a dream, he told Americas best day were still yet to come, and i believed him.

Now I am looking to what the future will hold and for me it still holds the promise that John Kerry will be our next President. I realize this may be false hope and the chances of it happening are slimming down, but day by day it gives me something to hope for, something to dream about.

[knowbody0]

1. he jumped into my heart in the 70's

i feel that he is guided by the greater good, and have been impressed with how hard he appears to be working since november.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. mine too, I have always admired him

[Ken Burch]

9. he WAS great in the 70's

but then he turned into a party regular.

[asjr]

2. That is uncommon wisdom for one of your age. We need

many more like you. I was undone in 2000. I came further undone with 2004 so I certainly know how you feel. But theft of a presidency can not go on forever. It may take some time for the blocks to tumble but I know they will.

[ministerhandy12]

3. John Kerry Gave Hope

Hello,
I read your post and I totally agree with you... America missed a great opportunity when Bush stoled yet another election. I believe John Kerry had great possiblities to change the course of America and the world. He gave us hope and enable us to believe in ourselves.
What the future holds does not lie with Bush but in God and God does not belong to Bush but to all of us... This is what we must do now is trust in God. Again, great article and God Bless....

Pastor Handy
http://www.tntbc.org

[ndcohn]

4. i feel the same

Our stories are remarkably similar except that I'm 2 years older. I remember the exhileration of my first Kerry rally in August, skipping school to watch election day, the giddy joy of the exit polls, and then the depression of defeat. Our avatars are even the same!

[GetTheRightVote]

5. I will always back Sen. Kerry, still fighting for us

:kick:

[Akno21]

6. As the campaign went on

I began to admire Kerry more. I believe he is the smartest man to seek the Presidency in ages. He fought through tough obstacles.

But the problem is, the John Kerry I admire so much is the John Kerry from 1969-1972. The John Kerry that came home from Vietnam and organized the VVAW march on the mall. The John Kerry that testified before congress in such a great manner that he got more time on network news shows just showing clips of his speech than anyone else in that room had gotten. The John Kerry that went on the Dick Cavaet show and debated the slimebag paul O'neill.

I'd love to see Kerry appointed as Secretary of State by the Democratic President. But I don't want to lose. Kerry will lose. Which is very sad, because he really earned this job, unlike so many who've held it, Democrats and Republicans alike.

BTW, props on the age. Though when I was in 5th grade, I wasn't really anti-Bush (though I was when he stole FL), just thinking "How hard is it to get up on a pile of rocks and say revenge and freedom?"

[Imagevision]

8. I too will always support John Kerry, but not for President this time

He was of no support to conyers while investigating ohio voting fraud and the recount with Blackwell obstructing all the way, what did Kerry do to help Conyers try and save his own butt??!!

Kerry won the election and like the true skull & Boneser he and are, he faded!

Bush will have 8 years to set this country on it's ass, and what, in 08 we'll hear, "there's much work to do to undo the wrong from the previous administration? --man, this shit is just too boring to take serious anymore.

[Mr_King]

10. Do You Really Believe????

That John Kerry cared more about some club he was in back in college 40 years ago then he did about being President of the United States.

So what if he and Bush were in the Skull & Bones, it's just a club...that's all.

I'm sure if Kerry had his choice of being in the Skull & Bones in the 1960's or being President of the United States in 2005, I think he would have chose the Oval Office.

Kerry and Bush being in the same college club doesn't mean they are secretly friends and that Kerry endorses Bush's policies. Kerry cares more about the people that voted for him and supported him in 2004 then he does about some club at Yale. It's stuff like that which makes me wish he had gone to Harvard instead like John & Robert Kennedy.