Kerry Speech

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Originally Posted by hayley

he was kicking ass and taking names, especially in regards to the war in Iraq. It was great.

I guess I was watching a different speech. He glossed over his own record on Iraq (he was vehement that Iraq had WMD), which he's gotta know is the sticking point with undecided, anti-war voters. It was actually rather disappointing. At least defend it. But, no, he acted like it was unimportant. It's easy enough to tear the other guy down; it's a little harder to explain your own position.

Overall the speech was decent, not great. Hell, if I were basing my vote on the best speech, Rev. Al would get my vote. He fired up the crowd more than Kerry did. Kerry was short on how he plans to accomplish what he claims he will accomplish, but that is not unusual for this sort of speech.

No doubt the country will be better off if Kerry wins, but long term, unless he takes a very different tack from Clinton, we are going to continue our dangerous slide to the right. I notice that his campaign has been surrounding itself with the old Clinton gang, much like Dubya did with Reagan and Bush I types. We need to move forward, not constantly look back. Looking back is only useful as far as ensuring that you don't repeat the same mistakes. John Kerry already failed at that by voting for the Iraq war.

I hope he wins and I hope I am wrong about the kind of presidency he will give us. But I don't see it happening.

John Kerry would get my vote if he admitted he made a mistake, apologized to the families of the dead servicemen and women and pledged to withdraw from Iraq within six months of taking office.

The episode in which he saved his comrade from certain death in the Mekong waters says a lot about Kerry as man. Unfortunately so does his vote to allow the Bush administraton to attack Iraq.