Reply #129: Yes, we don't need mixed messages, cause you know [View All]

it's hard work.

If he desired to be loved, he sure ain't makin' it here, is he? To right for the left, to left for the right. Too many ideas presented at once. A candidate who doesn't really get into campaigning until the last couple months, who generally finishs fast and then wins, which if the exit polls are too be believed he indeed did.

So I guess you're not one of the fraud believers if you think Kerry lost, eh?

I don't think one can be both: either Kerry ran a flawed campaign (and who doesn't) but still won, or he ran a lousy campaign against someone who ran an equally lousy campaign, lost his shirt, and we're surrounded by idiots in this country.

He believed in too many things if anything, and so gave out mixed messages. His world view is complex, and not suseptible to 30 second sound bites. Our candidate was something of a professor in the way he would sometimes think out loud. I also agree with the person who said that he was sometimes politically tone-deaf.

But in none of that do I see someone trying to be loved at all costs. God knows, he's far from that. Wouldn't more people love him then?

I see someone trying to do the right thing by as many people as possible means looking at a problem from every angle, gathering as much info as possible.