The wind up to Nov. 2nd

[iamthewalrus109]

Cellar dwellers,

Now with both the conventionmercials over, we now slide and descend into the final weeks of a so called election. Speaking as one of many disaffected Repulican voters, I feel John Kerry's last round of reorg. stemming from GW's 13 point perecentage point bounce to be the flailings of a befuddled Washington insider. With the addition of Joe Lockhart, and bedside calls from Bill Clinton, it is another reinvention and retooling. Bush has already capitalized on this in his last speech, citing yet another Kerry "flip-flop". This entire format smacks of an Al Gore move. Instead of self help gurus and psychoanalysts being added to the team, Kerry wants to find foriegn policy leftovers and policital bag men.

Bush's invocation of "almighty God" in his speech is somehow accepted as truth, it's not votes it's divine selection. If Kerry was smart he would be able to capitalize on many of the declassifed documents released through Bill Gertz' new book "Treachery", some of which outline Bush's reluctance to deal with real threats to this country, as well as the new arms race we will find ourselves in. But that would distract us from the real issues, like hairdressers and and attendance reports, no what a shame that would be.

Kerry should be smart to make a mockery out of Bush's so called war on terror by sinking into Bush's admission that a war on terror could never be won, he's right, it's a tactic, not a an enemy, notice Scott McClellan's fancy foot work on that one. Kerry should outline a vision beyond the threat of terror, one that outlines who are real enemies are, existing and emerging, including Bush's "axis of evil", notice he has mentioned these folks in a long time, and set a vision on controlling the proliferation on weapons while neutralizing beds of terroist activity as best we can, simply talking about how bad of an idea it was to go to Iraq is doing Kerry more harm then good, why he keeps walking into an issue that he's been posed as weak on over and over again is beyond me, Iraq should really be part of a larger framework, I think this charge, countercharge environment has limited the scope of what's discussed. This should be his foriegn policy board, and shore up his domestic issue board, which really should discuss outrageous government spending and the 17% medicare price increase, as well as lost manufacturing jobs. He's doing that somewhat well, but he really should pound Iraq when you had a week like we had this week already, with 13 dead, coming from Sadr's forces.

If Iraq continues to go down the toilet, it stands to reason that Bush should suffer some point loss in his standing. I would like to say the debates will settle it for some people, but with Bush's ability to mock complexity, and the public's continued adversion to thinking things over, were in for another lock box carnival. The real issue is how safe people feel on Nov. 2nd, that's really what will decide this one.


- Walrus