GUEST, glad to see you back on topic re: enthusiasm for candidates.

As for your contention that Abortion and the environment are not front-burner issues, that's just what Bush wants you to think. He is distracting you with the war so that he can push his social and economic agenda, which includes harming the environment and (possibly) outlawing abortion (though I don't think he much cares about the latter, his Supreme Court appointees might).

In any case, he denies funding to any sexual health programs that mention contraception or abortion, which will probably lead to more deaths from AIDS than in the whole Iraq war.

His environmental policies could conceivably lead to the deaths of everyone.

So, go ahead, GUEST. Keep thinking that these are lame reasons to vote, just like Bush wants you to. That way, if you're pro-war, you'll vote Bush, if you're anti-War, you'll hate Kerry. Either way, Bush will get elected and continue killing people with his environmental and sexual health policies.

By the way, Kerry's health-care policies are sound, and much better than Bush's. Cobb calls for universal single-payer, which I support but which will have to be implemented gradually or it will have no chance of passing Congress. Typically, Cobb is long on ideals and short on practicalities, and offers no way to implement the system he espouses.

You couldn't be worse than Bush on jobs. Certainly Cobb and Nader haven't offered any viable alternatives on job-creation. So even among your "front-burner" issues there are good reasons to vote for Kerry.