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It has been difficult to avoid taking a public stance on the
upcoming election, but lately it seems impossible as our campus and
the outside world has been flooded over in a sea of buttons, bumper
stickers, T-shirts and lawn advertisements. Heading into the final
turn of what has been quite an ugly election race, it’s
essential that Tulane students make their voices heard. “It
is vital that all students vote in this election to turn around
problems created by the short-sighted policies of George
Bush,” said Tulane College Democrats community service chair
Emily Rothschild. Despite talk of voting records and flip-flopping,
what is evident about Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kerry is
that he is the better choice come Nov. 2.
First, it is
clear that a main concern on the forefront of all our minds these
days is war and national safety. Author and
” color: black;”>Vietnamveteran
Tim O’Brien, who spoke last Monday at the
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Southern
Mississippi, stressed in his
speech that there is knowledge about war that one can only gain
from actually being in a war. Since
” color: black;”>America
” color: black;”>couldn’t be more preoccupied with the threat
of terror and war on its own soil, the person you want making the
decisions of the entire nation has to be the guy who has been there
before. Kerry is the candidate who has been in trenches and knows
that war can only be a last resort. The question that still
remains unanswered by Bush and Republicans is how does waging a war
in Iraq
” color: black;”> directly serve as a response to Osama Bin
Laden? Kerry put the matter in perspective during the
presidential debates when he mentioned that attacking
Pearl Harbor
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attacked Iraq
Secondly,
Americans simply have a luxury that other countries don’t. As
it stands today we are the world’s power, but will it always
be this way? Will
” color: black;”>America one
day have to turn to the rest of the world for help? Once you strip
away all the imaginary boundaries and divisions of country and
state that we invest so much time in, and look at individuals on a
person to person basis, it is clear that Kerry is better for the
world. Being an American abroad in the world has never been such a
concern as it is today and we simply can’t finish what George
Bush’s administration’s started in Iraq without support
from the rest of the world. How can we expect
Iraq
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Winston Churchill
once said, “If you’re young and you’re not
liberal, you have no heart, and if you’re old and
you’re not conservative, you have no brain.” Sure
it’s true that most Tulane students haven’t had to pay
taxes, feed a family, or deal with medical coverage, but if at some
point you decide to compromise your ideals for your checkbook, then
you have lost something fundamentally human.
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” color: black;”>Bio:
Name: John F.
Kerry
Age:
60
Height:
6’4”
Nickname: Lanky
Yankee
Education:
Yale
” color: black;”>University
” color: black;”>(Undergrad),
” color: black;”>Boston
” color: black;”>College
” color: black;”>Law
” color: black;”>School
Military
Experience: United
States Navy
Previous
Occupation: Attorney
Family: Teresa
Heinz (wife), 2 daughters, 3 sons, 1 grandchild
Pet: German
Shepherd, Cym
Hobbies: Surfing,
Cycling, Snowboarding, Bass Guitar
Favorite Food:
The Chocolate Chip Cookie
Favorite Films:
Giant and
” color: black;”>Casablanca
Slogan: Building
A Stronger America
Famous
Supporters: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen, Jon
Stewart
Fun Fact:
Released Album in 1961 with High School Band “The
Electras”
Books: Our
Plan for
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John Kerry & John Edwards; Tour of Duty by
” color: black;”> Douglas Brinkley
” color: black;”>Timeline:
December
11,1943- Born @ Fitzsimmons
Army Hospital, Aurora, CO
1962- Attends
Yale
” color: black;”>University
1966- Enlists in
United States
1968- Reports for
duty in Vietnam
December
1969- Earns
Bronze Star for saving a friend’s life in
” color: black;”>Vietnam
1970- Separates
from active service, marries Julia Thorne
1971- Appears
before Senate Foreign Relations Committee and asks
” color: black;”> “How
do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake?”
1976- Graduates
from Boston
” color: black;”>College
” color: black;”>Law
” color: black;”>School
1976-1979-
Prosecutor, Middlesex Countty,
” color: black;”>Massachusetts
1982- Elected
Lieutenant Governor
1984- Elected to
first term in the United States Senate
1994- Sponsors
amendment with Senator John McCain to lift 25 year-old trade
embargo
” color: black;”> with
Vietnam
1995- Remarries
Philanthropist Teresa Heinz
1997- Helps pass
increase in Minimum Wage to $5.15
2001- Co-sponsor
of Aviation and Transportation Security Act
2002- Re-elected
to fourth term in the United States Senate
2003- Diagnosed
and treated for Prostate Cancer
2004- Gives
speech to Democratic National Convention on July 29
Information
courtesy
” color: navy;”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry
” color: navy;”>http://johnkerry.com
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