Reply #89: To those quick to condemn Kerry [View All]

Are you familiar with the "Burden of Knowledge?" It's a phenomenon, normally referred to in any sort of test, where a person's additional knowledge serves as a liability rather than an asset, especially in a artificially constrained variety - multiple choice, or any sort of up or down vote.

People say "Well, I knew the CIA was lying," or some such claim. The point is - our Congresspersons aren't supposed to just outright assume that every other branch of government is lying. There's a reason just about everybody in government (including Dean; I'm not sure about Kucinich) was saying Saddam most likely had weapons of mass destruction - that was the consensus from seeing both the information in the public domain and, in some cases, the classified information.

Calling Kerry "merely not-Bush" is so far from the truth as to almost be a lie; it's not a lie, since it is technically true, but the intended connotation puts it in the same category as the misrepresentations that lead most of us to condemn the Republican leadership. Kerry is one of the most liberal members of the Senate, and yet, because he has not been talking like a far-left radical, some are not satisfied.

Let's face facts - the majority of Democratic voters supported Kerry in the primary. Kerry is who our party wanted as its standard-bearer. Either you support Kerry and the Democratic Party in taking our country back, or you don't.