mindmeld,
Kerry's answer surprised all the liberals in the room, who expected a resounding YES. Instead, Kerry replied, "Sir, we are where we are. We cannot leave Iraq until the job is done. We cannot leave Iraq until our troops can come home with the honor they deserve, leaving behind them a free, sovereign Iraq, with a newly elected government that lives in peace with its neighbors."
After that speech, I started to get won over by Kerry, because I saw in him a moderate closer to the middle than most Democrats, despite the broad liberal label the Bush administration was trying to paint him with. Anyway, to this day, I still believe Kerry would have been better for this countries foreign policy than Bush.
Which brings me back to what I said that some people (icluding some reasonable poeple out there) going by what Kerry says. I am more interested in what a person does, and what I understand the person's instincts are.
We simply deserve a better President than Bush. We deserve a master statesman, a master public speaker, a master multitasker, a master tactician. We have every right to demand and elect a Roosevelt or a Lincoln or a Washington. It makes me very sad when the best we can do is put someone like Bush forward as our representative.
That has to do with our primary system, how a person gets to the "finals". But we didn't do that badly in last 100 years. We had Roosevelts (FDR and Teddy), Reagan, and some people have high regard for Kennedy as well. Not everyone will be in their class as far as being a master statesman and speaker. As far as W, he is not doing badly for a guy who has been sober for a little more than 10 years.
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