Why does 30 years ago matter?

Over and over, I keep repeating...why does 30 years ago matter? And, I never get a good answer...

The only thing that I've come up with is that its a very lazy media that want to play and repeat, and not take the time for journalism...now I think that its basically that Kerry's campaign managers were crappy in handling the Swift Boat Liars, they basically ignored everything and let the claims run wild for 3 weeks...

and so they just want to get back at Bush for something that he did 30 years ago...well, one thing about the Republicans is that they are a LOT quicker politically, and more organized than the democrats...after 12 hours, that claim was put to rest...

On democratic boards, I always openly claimed that it doesn't matter...Bush has been President for 4 years, so at this point, people dont care...and I WAS RIGHT!! AND, now to top it off, the Republicans have called into question the documents that were used...this always was a no win for the Kerry campaign, and now even more so...STUPID!!

The ONLY way to run against this President is to run on his absolute FAILURE over the last three and a half years...what has not been a failure?

1. Number 1 has to be this war in Iraq. Ummm...WMDs? Connection to AlQuida? Greeted with flowers? Umm...still waiting...WHY AM I NOT HEARING ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY!!
chaos is beyond even my imagination...more than 1000 American troops have DIED for a LIE...I don't give a shit about the "actual reasons"...the STATED reasons were LIES!! LIES!! Is this a Howard Dean scream through typing...GOOD, that certainly got enough damn attention maybe this will!! 1,000 people have died, and its just getting worse...when this was going on, besides Kerry's absolutely idiotic statement that they died for the "war on terror"...the Bush campaign continually reminded us that it was a small sacrifice considering that 3000 people died in the World Trade Center attack...so, I ask you...will we actually hear the US media doing REAL investigative journalism into these LIES! when the number of American who die reaches 3,000? From all accounts, it is getting much worse there, insurgents have taken over a number of cities, and its unclear if we can get these areas back, because we have lost the chance at hearts and minds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/08/politics/08policy.html?hp
When is the right time to actually wake up to this?!?!

2. The war on terrorism is FAILING...BECAUSE the war on terrorism has morphed into a war in Iraq that has almost no support in the world...we have alienated allies, we have pissed off freinds, and we have taken the resources that we were using to fight the war on terrorism (ummm, that would be ALQuida...you know, the fundamentalists, ummm...they were in Afghanistan!!) to be used in a war against Iraq that didn't need to be fought, it was a war of choice!! 2003 terrorism stats were UP...we are not safer...AlQuida has gone from being a group of extremists, to gaining credibility throughout the middle east...do you see the problem here? The war on terrorism is a war for minds...and through OUR (Bush's) misguided policies...we are LOSING the war for the minds of the middle east...by disregarding all other nations when going into Iraq, it made AlQuida stronger...not weaker...this is not a war that can be won with bombs...its not!!

3. We had record surpluses in 2000, surpluses for as far as the eye could see...well, we carelessly gave back more than we could afford, and now we have record deficits...think about it like a credit card...we are running up a huge debt, and YOUR CHILDREN and grandchildren will have to pay it back...and economically, it puts the US in a much weaker position...you pay your debt...not your children...

4. Social Security...four years ago, I believed that S/S would be around when I retired...now everyone from Greenspan on down is trying to make us accept that its not going to be what we were promised...because we dont have the funds...ummm...we did four years ago!??!!?

5. The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer...everyone should benefit equally when the RIGHT policies are in place...a strong middle class is necessary for a strong democracy...and right now, we all should be pulling for a stronger democracy...but we are doing the opposite...many people are now rooting for the big corporations over the people...defending CEOs getting 500 times what their employees make while in the same breath saying that there shouldn't be a minimum wage...this is so back asswards...black and white and up is down...left is right and right is wrong!!

Ok, I'll end it there...we have a Cat. 5 hurricane coming right at us, and Cat. 2 150 miles away nearly killed our house...gee...can I just say, I like that my TAX MONEY goes to FEMA...yea, I'm very happy that the government is there for me...

The democrats should be running on the present...they need to be running on the present...I desperately need them to straighten out this crazy world that we have become...