I endorse John Kerry, because for the first time in my political memory, I think we have the opportunity to elect a man whose actual calling is public service. I’m always reading about how John Kerry is incapable of sticking to his script, and that he replaces simple, strongly-worded, declarative sentences with eye-glazing lists of numbers and details. I just LOVE THAT about him. I love that he can’t just hang the rhetoric out there without some qualification, and that he sees complexities. I think John Kerry is an idealist who is interested in pragmatism, and who is engaged with reality. George Bush scares me, and John Kerry inspires me.

Also, he can speak English, and that hair is fabulous. I can’t take another nukular State of the Union address delivered by a man with no mother tongue. It’s no contest, really.

For more than a year, I’ve supported Kerry. At first it was just visceral, having spent a couple of collegiate years in Massachusetts, but the fact is that he is the sort of thoughtful, principled individual that this country needs to lead it. I like that he’s a thinker, a speaker, and human, and isn’t afraid to embrace those things.

Basically, he’s the sort of person I want to be and I want my children–if any–to be: A good human, and a good leader.

I endorse Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate. I want to exercise my inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I want my president to stand up for ALL my rights – not just when its convenient – but ALL the time. I don’t want the government to intrude into my economic and personal decisions.

Like Badnarik, I believe that I am the best judge of how to run my life. And that is why I’m voting Libertarian.

Kerry. He gets it.

Not that my opinion matters, I’m Canadian. I dearly hope Kerry wins because I don’t see him trying to enlist my country in a war using false information. I don’t see him badgering the international community with simplistic “you’re with us or against us” rhetoric. In short I don’t fear him the way I fear Bush and his crew.

Mind you another Bush term wouldn’t be all bad. I supsect we’d see a net increase in imigration comprised of intelligent, well educated, left leaning Americans. You folks have been draining off our talent for years, it’d be nice to have some back.

I support Kerry, too. Because he’s Not Bush, and because he’s intelligent and shows a calling towards public service instead of primarily politics.

I live in Texas and during the past decade I have had to watch Bush corrupt this state and then our country. He has committed crimes against women, homosexuals, soldiers, nature, science… the list goes on forever. I’m so tired of it. I want a leader in the white house. Not a puppet.

I endorse John Kerry.

Wow, I sense a trend here.

I endorse Bush – for many reasons.

But the biggest reason is that the only major issue in this election for my family and I is the national security of this country – and we’re better off, in my opinion, with Bush in the Whitehouse rather than Kerry.

Bush is not whom I would have chosen to be the Republican nominee in 2000 – nor would I have selected him again in 2004 – but he’s not Kerry, and thus I endorse him.

Bryan

Kerry. I like to think that the leader of my nation is smarter than I and not merely a downhome fellow I could hang out and shoot bottles of a fence with. That’s just one of a thousand reasons why Kerry is better for us–and the world.

I endorse John Kerry. Is John Kerry the most perfect candidate on all of God’s Green Earth? No. Is John Kerry better than Bush? In my opinion, that’s a resounding yes. Is John Kerry better than Nader, who hasn’t done anything since he got it in his head that he wanted to be President? Yes. I respect Nader for all that he did prior to deciding to run for President, but ever since then all he’s done is rear his head every 4 years. Do I think John Kerry is better than Badnarik, who’s primary political qualification is a few failed runs at gov’t, and a vice Presidency of a dorm room? Yes. Do I think John Kerry is better than the Constitutional party candidate (who I don’t think is on any ballots?) the Green party Candidate? The Communist Canddiate? Yes. Yes. Yes. Resounding yes on all fronts.

I endorse John Kerry becauase he’s the best of the batch.

I endorse John Kerry because Bush is dangerous to have in the White House for another four years.

I endorse John Kerry because Bush is bad for national security because he alienates other countries (including our allies), and has thrust two regions into more upheaval than they were in previously–encouraging more terrorist recruitment. (Yes, I’m aware that the head-honchos of terrorism are not the poor and bombed-out, but the privilidged, but they’re not the ones that are going out and blowing themselves up. Without the poor and underprivied, the rich wackos are impotent.)

*ahem*

I support John Kerry, because–given the opportunity to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, or any other rich wacko terrorist, he would have taken the opportunity instead of bungling it horridly the way that Bush did.

I support John Kerry because I’m in New York City, a region that may actually have to deal with terrorist events, unlike a lot of people who are “concerned” and “voting Bush” who are out in NowherePlace Idaho with no target anywhere near them. I support John Kerry because I believe he will do a better job keeping this country safe, and protecting the remaining civil rights that we have.

And I’d support John Kerry even if I prefered Nader or Badnarik, because the alternative at this moment is just too lousy to contemplate.

Karry for Kerry. But only because he’s not Bush.

as karo noted, the whole not sucking thing is kind of key to my endorsement of kerry.

oh: that and the whole not evil thing.

i mean, is this *really* a question? i’m still utterly baffled by the fact that this is even *slightly* a contest…though, sadly, it indeed appears that it is.