buffer-overflowed's Journal: Excellent piece in the new yorker

On John Kerry and the current state of the process. I suggest you go read it. Very well written if quite long and gives a pretty good view into the Kerry camp(what he wants to do, what he views his contrasts are, etc.).

If quite long?

[spumoni_fettuccini]

I think you meant quite loooonggg :D You're right about it being a good read though. It makes me wanna like Kerry and I don't like Dems. Well come to think of it I really don't like a lot of politicians :P Heck with it I'm going with the sig I keep seeing and voting for Cthulhu.

Re:If quite long?

[loucura!]

Lucky you, Missouri has stupid punch-card ballots, so I can't write in a candidate.

Re:If quite long?

[buffer-overflowed]

Kerry is odd. The more I find out about him the more I like him. He kinda grows on you like cancer.

Of course, I don't agree with him enough to vote for him, but if I was a lesser of two evils guy I would.

whew.

[mekkab]

I'm 30% the way through (well...maybe 40%. It's hard to convert the visual bar to a number... 'spechially after 2 boddingtons [boddingtons.com] (I'm moving on the McEwans after this one...its hard to get the temperature right on them Boddingtons))

It helps to cut through the FUD that Kerry is wishy-washy and mealy-mouthed. However, dollars to donuts thats the angle that the Republicans should take. "our candidate may be crazy as a shit house rat, but at least he's a single-minded prick who sees everything in Black and Whit

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Re:whew.

[buffer-overflowed]

Hence why I phrased it as a look inside the Kerry camp. This piece is pretty much Kerry as he wants to present himself.

If you want a more balanced look a group of Boston journalists recently released a book about him. Of course that's like 20 times as long, easily.

Alternatively, you can watch News Hour and C-Span.

Wow

[freejung]

That was very interesting. I didn't know a lot of that stuff. It helped to clarify my differences with Kerry (I'm a pacifist, he's not), as well as to make me much more comfortable supporting him.

Several things I like about Kerry, even though I disagree with him on principle: he's a real person (unlike his opponent, who is a ventriloquist's dummy, he might actually make some of his own decisions), he's a bona-fide hero, he's clearly very intelligent (how can any geek support an obvious idiot like Bush?),

Mutual Masterbation

[Anarcho-Goth]

I'll read the article later, and I'm probably going to vote Kerry anyway, but I just don't feel comfortable voting for someone that has participated in mutual masterbation in a coffin with George W Bush.