Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Goodnight, moon
I can think of two, no three, character-based reasons to vote for Kerry.
1. Kerry will reason from facts to come to a solution.
How different from Bush and the neo-cons, who went to war based on ideology, and when ideology failed them, had nothing to fall back on but trying to hide what they did and blame others.
2. Kerry is a prosecutor.
There are going to be an awful lot of rocks to lift, and a lot of creepy-crawlies scuttling out from under them. Kerry's prosecutorial mindset and experience (BCCS, the Contras) will be a great help.
And—this will be really un-PC, so forgive me as I to think it through:
3. Kerry knows what it means to take life.
Meaning: Kerry's been a soldier, and has killed people in battle, personally.
Bush, despite the strut, has killed people by signing off on their execution warrants, or through negligence and arrogance in planning for the Iraq war. He's a killer by proxy.
So I think Kerry, in defending the country, will take his duty seriously in a way that Bush never has. Putting on the flight suit is one thing; being shot at, and shooting back, is entirely another.
Readers?
1. Kerry will reason from facts to come to a solution.
How different from Bush and the neo-cons, who went to war based on ideology, and when ideology failed them, had nothing to fall back on but trying to hide what they did and blame others.
2. Kerry is a prosecutor.
There are going to be an awful lot of rocks to lift, and a lot of creepy-crawlies scuttling out from under them. Kerry's prosecutorial mindset and experience (BCCS, the Contras) will be a great help.
And—this will be really un-PC, so forgive me as I to think it through:
3. Kerry knows what it means to take life.
Meaning: Kerry's been a soldier, and has killed people in battle, personally.
Bush, despite the strut, has killed people by signing off on their execution warrants, or through negligence and arrogance in planning for the Iraq war. He's a killer by proxy.
So I think Kerry, in defending the country, will take his duty seriously in a way that Bush never has. Putting on the flight suit is one thing; being shot at, and shooting back, is entirely another.
Readers?
