Mike Malloy (radio host) said tonight that Kerry shouldn't use

phrases about Bush like "an absence of candor."

According to Malloy, Kerry should instead call Bush "a
coward, sneak, mass killer, and a liar."

They need it sugar coated.

That's Malloy's point. Use simple language. Surely the Kerry campaign will pick up on this.

You choose your language for your audience.

Malloy tends to have that tendency to blow his wad when the dinner appetizers haven't even been ordered yet.

Wait until the debates.

Kerry needs to really take off the gloves and call it the way it is...Bus is a serial killer and a serial liar1

Like in his speech today, he mentioned Chalabi. Well, most people don't have a clue who Chalabi is.

He should say "Chalabi, convicted bank embezzeler, accused of giving top secret info to the Iranians, and Bush's #1 pick to run Iraq."

We need to educate the public. Kerry needs to realize this ASAP.

just let Kerry be Kerry dammit

The close we get to election time, the plainer Kerry talks. Kerry knows what he's doing and I think we'll hear more and more plain language coming from him. Kerry will build this to a crescendo and Bush will go down.

Perhaps my lack of faith in the American citizen is undeserved, but I can't see more than 60% of my countryment understanding what Kerry meant by "an absence of candor". Does it mean "bush has regular bowel movements"? Or maybe "bush doesn't get the daily paper"? Not only is "candor" a post-secondary term, "an absence of candor" requires extra brain cells for the parse. I think Kerry damages his campaign by overestimating the intelligence of his audience.

Sadly, we are faced with a need to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and that means simplicity. "Bush is a liar" would have been direct, to the point, honest, and easy to understand.

Mike's right again.

Kerry used 'precipitated' instead of 'caused'. The big word sends a message to the averaage American, which is: "I'm Mr. Smarty Pants. I'm Al Gore II. I'm a Liberal Snob."

Somebody should go over his speeches and also give Kerry a sit down. Make him do a sleep-over with some toothless hicks in Arkansas maybe. (no offense)

They only "get" short, one or two syllable words like liar or asshole. :) And both would be good for Kerry to start using.

he did go after * with enough down to earth words. but he can afford to leave out what might make some people feel small. we know kerry can use the language in intelligent ways. that's why we like him! god knows, i want a prez that's smarter than me. but i guess a lot of folks still want to have that beer even if there was a beheading today.

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I spend all day with children. Big words are like good sex to me. Don''t take away my big words.

Without them I am living in a Bush world where instead of this:

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."

Kennedy would have said "teach a kid to do good stuff and he or she will use his good abilities to do good stuff for other people."

Instead of this:

"Without love, benevolence becomes egotism"

Dr King would have said
"without love doing good stuff becomes all about yourself."


Leave me my poetry in word. It reminds me that I have a mind that is meant not only to help me explain to a 3 year old how to make poop come out, but to explain to a friend why their children are safer with Kerry in office.