Guest Column: Let's Fire Bush and Hire Kerry

With the elections coming up so soon, I thought I would write in about how important it is to vote for the right candidates this November. Don't many of us prefer a choice outside of the two main parties? However, voting for anybody else is a clear waste of a vote. I would like to explain why I think the average college student or citizen should give Kerry a chance. First, he wants to lower your tuition by offering a four thousand dollar tax credit on four years of college to parents of students going through college and to students paying their way. He'll also work to lower the tuition itself by putting 10 billion more dollars into targeting particularly the higher educational system. Also, anybody willing to do two years of service for a school, a health center, or national security could get the equivalent of four years of college paid for. Also, the right to choose to have an abortion is in danger. Bush has attempted to appoint anti-choice judges for the last four years. We're only one judge away from having Roe vs. Wade overturned. No woman wants to have an abortion, but many college women would prefer that choice be there if they have to choose between having an early baby and having a college education. While Kerry isn't a champion for homosexual rights, he doesn't want to put an amendment in the constitution against homosexual marriages. Kerry promises to appoint people who will coincide with the constitution. He also promises to strongly enforce our civil rights laws. Many say that Kerry goes back and forth on where he stands on the war in Iraq. Voters should look at his past actions. He volunteered for Vietnam, but he later spoke against it. He also wants to have good relations with other countries for the purpose of fighting terrorism (in contrast to Bush's attitude of being willing to fight terrorism by ourselves). These actions show that Kerry's willingness to go into war with many countries is less likely than Bush's. Also, if we don't keep going into useless wars, we won't have much of a need for a draft. There is a bill for the house and senate that would require that everybody between the ages of eighteen to twenty-six do two years of required service. Being in college or female won't exempt anybody. This bill is likely to pass if we keep a president who insists that war is the answer in everything. I encourage everybody on campus to vote for John Kerry on November 2nd along with voting a Democratic ballot. Kerry can't make good on his promises if everybody he works with is Republican. If you don't like all of Kerry's policies, then feel free to protest and demand that he change them in the next four years. That's how reform in a country happens. It doesn't happen by deciding not to vote or by voting for a third party candidate.