(PRWEB) June 8, 2004

A leading internet news site for America's Seniors, http://www.TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com, has endorsed Senator John Kerry for President.

The announcement was made by Daniel Hines, pubisher of http://www.TodaysSeniorsnetwork.com.

In the endorsement, which appears below, Hines notes that the Bush Administration has engaged in a series of misdirections that are aimed at deciving the American electorate.

He points to the now infamous 'Mission Accomplished' flight by President Bush, the failure to not only not adopt a necessary prescription drug plan but to offer in its place a failed and rejected discount drug card for seniors, continued opposition to lowering prescription prices by not supporting reimportation of pharmaceuticals from Canada, failure to develop a strong domestic energy policy through renewable biomanss resources, and job losses as indications of why President Bush should not be elected.

Even more troubling, according to Hines, is the fact that the Administration and its supporters have attempted to question the morality and patriotism of those who oppose the President's flawed policy in Iraq, a policy that Hines points out was based on yet even more misdirection and fabrication by the Administration.

"This is an election that will help determine our common national destiny," Hines said. "It is now incumbent upon Senator Kerry to offer the leadership that will address these important issues."

The endorsement follows:

Why we believe John Kerry should be elected President.

Writing in the February 1964 publication of American Heritage, President John F. Kennedy reflected on the importance of an understanding of the role of history noting that a knowledge of history is a means of strength.

He quoted John Dos Passos who wrote just before the start of World War II: "In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a line across the scary present."

There can be no doubt that these are scary times the likes of which President Kennedy and Dos Passos could not imagine.

We refer not to the need for being constantly alert to the need to protect our country from foreign or ideological enemies. In some form or another, that threat has always been present.

We refer to the erosion, the attack, if one will, upon our values and ideals that have defined us as a people and a nation.

 

Wrapped in the flag of our country, the Bush Administration has set us off on a policy that carries not only international implications but that claims a moral superiority over the dissenting views among a growing segment of the American electorate.

Consider:

We are mired in a war in the Middle East with global implications. The 'justification' for a first-strike, weapons of mass destruction, was a fabrication. Our armed forces are stretched around the globe beyond our capabilities to truly be effective.  

Our individual freedoms are at risk. The so-called 'Patriot Act' removes many of our traditional liberties, the very things that should act as an example of the values for which we stand.

A large number of our fellow citizens claim a moral superiority over others, claiming that 'supporting our soldiers' must translate into support of a failed policy, and that to do otherwise is 'un-American'.

Misdirection is the key to the art of the magician, who really practices illusion.

A memorable example of illusion is a President who flies onto the deck of an aircraft carrier, only a short distance from the American shoreline, decked in his combat pilot gear, giving a thumbs up with the backdrop of a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished".

Now, a year later, hardly a day goes by that we are not reminded of just how much of an illusion that sleight-of-hand was.

A small income tax cut is offset by rising oil prices, and our so-called Middle East allies continue to profit by artificially controlling our supplies. And, while that goes on, the Bush Administration supports more R&D on a hydrogen-based car of the future, when support of expanded renewable resources from biomass could not only end our dependence on foreign oil, but could also be the cornerstone of a jobs program, while prompting a revitalization of rural America.

We spend more than $100 billion in Iraq on an infrastructure that we helped destroy, while being told that for our citizens there is not enough money for schools, highways, or health care for all.

Many of our senior citizens are forced to make drastic--often life-threatening--choices of not having access to necessary prescription drugs, while pharmaceutical companies that spend three times as much on marketing than R&D, continue to charge Americans outrageous prices that are the highest in the world.

The solution of the Bush Administration--a disheveled and unworkable program of 'drug discount cards' has been rejected by the very seniors it claims to have been designed to serve.

Disguised as 'privatization', the Bush Administration continues its attacks upon Social Security, claiming that future generations will gain more by relying upon the variances of the stock market or other investments.

  

The economy has staggered under three years of job losses, only now beginning to recover. Even with the development of 'new jobs' the fact remains that the Bush Administration will leave a heritage of lost jobs that has disrupted lives and communities and has exported jobs under the guise of competiveness, even going so far as to name a job czar who closed down a U.S. plant.

  

These things demand a new direction in our national leadership. That will come about only with the election of John Kerry as President.

Senator Kerry has a tremendous opportunity to right the course of our country.

It is now incumbent upon him to show his traits of leadership so that we may, as a nation, once again have a vision of ourselves as a people whose greatness is based not upon a swaggering presence of force, but upon our ideals.

In his article about the importance of history, President Kennedy said:

"...every American today has his own contribution to make to the great fabric of tradition and hope which binds all Americans, dead and living and yet to be born, in a common faith and a common destiny."

Perhaps more than any other election in recent memory, the election of 2004 will define what our common destiny is to be.

(http://www.TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com receives nearly three-quarters of a million page views and nearly four million hits a year.)