Gee, I hope I don’t jinx this like I did with game 6 in the NLCS last season (long story), but it looks like Kerry’s in a good position to become our next president. I have seen no considerations of how Kerry might serve… what kind of president he will be. I don’t know if this is because past projections on the administrations of candidates were reviled by the public, or because nobody gave the guy a chance, but I haven’t seen such articles as I’ve seen in the past.
I think the so-called character deficits (flip flopper! say anything to get elected! etc.) will turn out to be benefits to a president. It’s unfortunate that we vote for candidates and end up with presidents, since the skills that make a good candidate are quite different from those that make a good president. Kerry could be a consensus-builder and a prudent manager of the US government, one who considers everything and is able to appreciate many different perspectives. If he doesn’t have an agenda or pet projects, he can gain our faith as a fair-minded leader. Let me suggest that such qualities were absent in (cough) recent administrations.
Abandon, if you will, either the utopian or apocalypic visions you have had during the campaign cycle, and post your thoughts on how Kerry might (will) (would have) serve(d).
What I can’t wait to see is how suddenly (when Kerry gets in) the economy will be ‘better’ while actually trending exactly the same. How the situation in Iraq will be ‘better’ though Kerry won’t have done anything substantial yet. How suddenly the environment will be ‘better’ despite the fact that Kerry won’t have really don’t anything yet. How health benifits will be ‘better’, how social security will be ‘saved’, Etc, etc etc. Should be a fun 4 years.
Even if Kerry pulls off an astonishing comeback in Ohio - and despite what you may have heard, there ain’t enough votes left in Cuyahoga County to give him the state - the reports are now that he’s losing Wisconsin.
Without Florida, he can’t lose any of the Great Lakes states. He’s DOA.
Maybe Bush can find a job for him in the new Bush whitehouse. Otherwise, I’m afraid you jumped the gun…If Kerry becomes President, it will have to be head of some organization but not of the People of the USA.
It’s not OVER, but yeah, it is over. Yay President Bush! Yay Republican Congress! Yay Marriage Referendums! Yay also to our our Coalition friends & our Iraqi & Afghan supporters.
Laugh while you can. You can gloat for a while, feeling like you’ve won, before you realize you’re just a pawn in Karl Rove’s chess game and you’ve been used.
What makes you think I’m little? Well, I guess I am a rodent.
Bush backers are in for a rude awakening. It’ll be great to gloat the day that people realize, hey! Debt and war do NOT add up to a strong America? We’ve been had!
