God Help Us All, I've Decided
After much thought and needless deley, I've decided to vote for John Kerry.
I promised myself to wait until after the debates before making a final commitment, and the debates did it for me. Kerry's mah man.
Here are the why's, wherefores and needless equivocations:
1. He's a military veteran who hesitates to spill American blood unless we're sure why.
2. WHERE does he get his hair done? MUCH better than GW.
3. A guy who changes his mind too much is better than a guy who doesn't know when it's time to change it.
4. He sounded less aphasic than Bush during the debates.
5. Bush looked and sounded annoyed to be debating; the POTUS should never forget his obligation to defend his ideas before the people. It's his job, not an annoyance.
6. Kerry's taller.
7. Reagan started this crap: "Are you better off now than four years ago?" Hell, no...but I guess that's personal.
8. Bush won't admit mistakes, and that's deadly in any leader. During the "town hall" format he was asked to name three mistakes he made, and he boffed the question. Then only one he could think of was something about one or more of his appointments, which he refused to discuss due to confidentiality. A great leader admits when he's wrong. John Maxwell defined a leader as the guy in the forest who skinnies up the tallest tree, looks around and hollers down to his people, "WRONG FOREST." GW and Lyndon Johnson share too much in common regarding staying committed to a losing overseas war.
9. Bush is shorter.
10. Kerry at least acknowledges that health care in the US is in a mess. It's worse now than it's ever been, and getting still worse. I heard Bush say that our system works better than, say, the Swedish system or some such. He's dead wrong on the facts. Perhaps it works better for him personally (I happened to see his private hospital care unit when I taught at Bethesda). Not for me, though, or almost anyone else I know - AND I WORKED IN HEALTH CARE FOR 24 YEARS!!
So, anybody who pees in my ear and tells me it's raining cannot get my vote.
Whew - it sure took long enough. God bless America!
I promised myself to wait until after the debates before making a final commitment, and the debates did it for me. Kerry's mah man.
Here are the why's, wherefores and needless equivocations:
1. He's a military veteran who hesitates to spill American blood unless we're sure why.
2. WHERE does he get his hair done? MUCH better than GW.
3. A guy who changes his mind too much is better than a guy who doesn't know when it's time to change it.
4. He sounded less aphasic than Bush during the debates.
5. Bush looked and sounded annoyed to be debating; the POTUS should never forget his obligation to defend his ideas before the people. It's his job, not an annoyance.
6. Kerry's taller.
7. Reagan started this crap: "Are you better off now than four years ago?" Hell, no...but I guess that's personal.
8. Bush won't admit mistakes, and that's deadly in any leader. During the "town hall" format he was asked to name three mistakes he made, and he boffed the question. Then only one he could think of was something about one or more of his appointments, which he refused to discuss due to confidentiality. A great leader admits when he's wrong. John Maxwell defined a leader as the guy in the forest who skinnies up the tallest tree, looks around and hollers down to his people, "WRONG FOREST." GW and Lyndon Johnson share too much in common regarding staying committed to a losing overseas war.
9. Bush is shorter.
10. Kerry at least acknowledges that health care in the US is in a mess. It's worse now than it's ever been, and getting still worse. I heard Bush say that our system works better than, say, the Swedish system or some such. He's dead wrong on the facts. Perhaps it works better for him personally (I happened to see his private hospital care unit when I taught at Bethesda). Not for me, though, or almost anyone else I know - AND I WORKED IN HEALTH CARE FOR 24 YEARS!!
So, anybody who pees in my ear and tells me it's raining cannot get my vote.
Whew - it sure took long enough. God bless America!
posted by John Bernat @ 2:28 PM
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