Here's the further comment on yourlist of Kerry's proposed economic reforms.
There are two options. Either the problems he wants to address existed nine months ago, which is about when he announced for the Presidency, or they are new since then.
If they are new, we can hardly fault Bush for not having solved them, given the slow pace of government action in Washington.
So let's assume they existed before he announced. Now we have two further options. Either he recognized them as problems, or he didn't.
If he didn't, he's pretty unperceptive, which is not a good thing for a President to be.
If he did, then what has he done about them? Where's the legislation he's introduced to address the problems?
If he hasn't, then he is one who sees problems but doesn't act to solve them. Which also isn't much of a recommendation for a President.
So if he truly is Presidential material, then I think he will have perceived the problems, investigated how to deal with them, and worked on crafting solutions to address them. In which case, he should be able to point us to those solutions, bills he's sponsored, and say "look here, see, I recognized this problem, I came up with a solution, and I tried to implement it into law. Here's the language of the bill I proposed or sponsored, and here's how it addressed the problem (if it got passed) or would have addressed the problem (if it didn't)." That's the sort of specific action that would, frankly, impress me a lot more than thousands of pages of campaign proposals or promises.
In short, show me what he has done as a national leader -- as one of only 100 members of the most powerful deliberative body in the world.
Or, as Eliza Dolittle (in My Fair Lady) says, "don't talk at all, show me!" |
