"....he seems to me an intelligent moderate who is willing to admit that most issues are too complicated to sum up in a 15 second sound bite."
Yup, that's true. Very intelligent. Recognizes the complexity of complex issues.
Now I'm going to go into political attack-ad mode, which probably ought to be beneath me, and I may well delete this following section after re-reading it.
He's still a flip-flopper. That silly thing about voting for the war before voting against it makes for an awful sound bite, but there's an underlying problem with the actual position he was trying to describe -- he voted to authorize the use of force, but voted against funding peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts. Come again? Let's invade, knock over the government, and then walk away, leaving the country in anarchy? That's not regime change, that's just regime demolition.
Kerry really flip-flopped on education reform. He was pushing for more accountability, objective evaluation of effectiveness, maybe even charter schools and (whisper it cautiously) vouchers. Then the NEA applied a little pressure, and he crumpled like the proverbial thing that crumples really easily.
He (along with 97 other Senators) voted for the Patriot Act. Now that it's fashionable to complain about it, he's suddenly changed his mind.
His position on NAFTA and other trade agreements is particularly disturbing. While you and others have some potentially legitimate concerns about environmental and labor issues, when politicians propose to review existing trade agreements on those areas, that's code for scrapping them entirely. While he voted for it, now he says he would have voted against it. Would have? If what? He doesn't say.
Five months apart: 12/02 -- "And we should attempt to end the double taxation of dividends," followed by 5/03 -- "This is not the time for a dividends tax cut that goes to individuals."
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winterfish
Hold my nose and vote.
Date: 2004-08-18 04:38 pm (UTC)"....he seems to me an intelligent moderate who is willing to admit that most issues are too complicated to sum up in a 15 second sound bite."
Yup, that's true. Very intelligent. Recognizes the complexity of complex issues.
Now I'm going to go into political attack-ad mode, which probably ought to be beneath me, and I may well delete this following section after re-reading it.
He's still a flip-flopper. That silly thing about voting for the war before voting against it makes for an awful sound bite, but there's an underlying problem with the actual position he was trying to describe -- he voted to authorize the use of force, but voted against funding peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts. Come again? Let's invade, knock over the government, and then walk away, leaving the country in anarchy? That's not regime change, that's just regime demolition.
Kerry really flip-flopped on education reform. He was pushing for more accountability, objective evaluation of effectiveness, maybe even charter schools and (whisper it cautiously) vouchers. Then the NEA applied a little pressure, and he crumpled like the proverbial thing that crumples really easily.
He (along with 97 other Senators) voted for the Patriot Act. Now that it's fashionable to complain about it, he's suddenly changed his mind.
His position on NAFTA and other trade agreements is particularly disturbing. While you and others have some potentially legitimate concerns about environmental and labor issues, when politicians propose to review existing trade agreements on those areas, that's code for scrapping them entirely. While he voted for it, now he says he would have voted against it. Would have? If what? He doesn't say.
Five months apart: 12/02 -- "And we should attempt to end the double taxation of dividends," followed by 5/03 -- "This is not the time for a dividends tax cut that goes to individuals."