economic stress, war with growing chaos and death counts, a divided intelligence community, isolated European allies, systemic distortion on economic reporting, clouds of suspicion on truthfulness on his lack of war service
OK, but Al Q has been denied the use of Afghanistan, which they practically owned previously..., Iraq is a big open question, as they manage to train a rather sizable military and security force... (Even Kerry thinks he could win the war from here on). Markets rallied up and haven't fallen apart yet, indicating that things may not be too bad so far.... Many people read the new OBL tape almost as a request for a hold in hostilities, and I think there may be something there to that effect... Etc, etc. In short, there are many pro's to balance the con's.
I vote for Bush - for the above and other reasons. Glad that this stupid divisive campaign is almost over. Whoever wins, I just hope that they do it with a large enough margin, so as to spare us another 4 years of lawyering over poorly impregnated chads.... |
