Quick politics thought
I'm really starting to think that Kerry's main problem is that he's essentially mediocre, bright, but still mediocre. So he's had a hard time really making a good showing in such troubling times. Wheras Bush has big ideas, they're often stupid, and more important the parts he's not concerned with are typically implemented with breathtaking incompetance. But if you're willing to be in denial about the massive failures of implementation it looks like he has bigger ideas.
As a result, I'm starting to think Dean was perhaps the better candidate to run, as he's stronger in the ideas department. Might be less competant than Kerry, but still order of magnitude more so than Bush. But then, while on the same order of magnitude, I think Wiley E. Cayote has shown more competance than Bush and am willing to defend that precept as not hyperbole.
As a result, I'm starting to think Dean was perhaps the better candidate to run, as he's stronger in the ideas department. Might be less competant than Kerry, but still order of magnitude more so than Bush. But then, while on the same order of magnitude, I think Wiley E. Cayote has shown more competance than Bush and am willing to defend that precept as not hyperbole.
Excerpt from the Kerry-Coyote debates
(Anonymous) 2004-10-18 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)"But, and here's where I run into problems, Wile E. Coyote did not secure allies in pursuing the Road Runner. I have a plan- it's on my website- to gain us allies in the pursuit of the Road Runner. Right now, one hundred percent of the people being crushed by boulders or falling off cliffs are coyotes. Further, one hundred percent of the costs of Acme devices are being borne by coyotes. If elected, I have a plan to share those costs and those horrible yet humourous deaths with our allies."
"I will never give any other cartoon character a veto on our actions. I've been very clear on that. I will hunt down and kill the Road Runner, wherever it hides."
Nicolas