Who Is the Dumber One?

I haven’t left town, I’ve been ill. Flat on my back ill. Nothing serious, just the cold from Hell. I’m capable of some rational thought again.

The Kerry campaign is not going well. The NYT, surprisingly, ran a piece about Kerry and his campaign. All in all, it was not all that flattering. It pictured him as a waffler and as indecisive, always seeking out one more opinion. I’m beginning to wonder which of the two candidates is the dumber!

Liberals love to mock Bush about his mangled words. They point to the fact that he isn’t the quickest with the comeback or the snappy answer at times. Yet Kerry Goes to Wisconsin and calls the hallowed (To green Bay fans anyway) grounds upon which the Packers call home Lambert Field. It’s Lambeau Field and I guess it could be overlooked in the light of a rigorous campaign schedule but earlier in the campaign he named Eddie Yost as his favorite Boston red Sox player ever except nobody by that name ever played for Boston. Eddie played for the old Washington Senators, the Detroit Tigers and finally a two seasons with the old L.A. Angels. Then he praised the Ohio State Buckeyes near Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan. That he survived such idiocy without injury is amazing!

OK So as a sports fan, Kerry sucks. Oh, he can ski and ride a bike, wind surf too, but none of those are really team sports. It’s all about the individual. But there is a pattern there. You can chalk it up to campaign lag or you can see that an organized mind is not at work here.

Read this article and see if what you get from it. It’s not the original NYT, it is the same article published in another paper.

http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24410~2428559,00.html

Or could the answer just be that he is not looking for one more opinion, but covering for a less than brilliant mind trying to cope by seeming to examine reams of data. In other words, is he appearing to be cerebral when he is really lost? Indecisiveness is not the hallmark of a leader. Can you imagine a General on a battle field acting that way? He wouldn’t be a General for long and doubtful if he would have made it much past Captain (or Lieutenant in the Navy or pay grade O-3). I think O-3 is as high as you can get by just showing up on time and not getting anyone killed in the process. After that, it gets harder.

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