I agree that people focus on that to the exclusion of other potential issues. A little while ago, I wrote up a list of reasons why I am reluctant to vote for Bush again:
1. Not including an item in the new budget proposal for operations in Iraq.
2. Carelessness with the Bill of Rights via the Patriot Act, etc.
3. Classifying the Guantanamo detainees as neither prisoners of war nor criminal suspects in order to avoid being subject to either the Geneva Conventions or U.S. due process rules.
4. Setting a precedent that preemptive war is OK.
5. Getting us into a war for reasons that apparently weren't true, which
a. made it difficult to avoid huge deficits, and
b. distracted us from the war against al Qaeda.
6. Said he was "a uniter, not a divider," yet cowtows to the right wing and ignores moderates.
7. Wants to impose *his* definition of marriage on future generations via a constitutional amendment.
