More endorsements (which amount to a hill of beans, but make for some good convo starters):
Rolling Stone: in which we get the answer to why it is that Kerry persists on wearing utterly gay athleticwear ...
You were criticized for wearing a windsurfing outfit.
It shows how pathetic and diversionary they are. They can't talk about having created jobs for America; they can't talk about giving people health care; they can't talk about having protected America and made it safer.
Did anyone say, "Senator, you shouldn't be wearing windsurfing clothes"?
Yeah, a few people said . . .
And you said, Fuck it?
You're damn right. I said, "I'm going to be who I am" -- I think people care about authenticity. There are much bigger issues.
Not that there's anything wrong with that ...
Even the liberal New Republic: a rather tame endorsement, but still ...
But the war against Islamist totalitarianism is not merely a struggle for Muslim minds; it is a struggle for American ones as well. In the weeks after September 11, Bush presided over a country more united--with more faith in its government--than at any other time in recent memory. He has squandered that unity and trust for the cheapest of reasons. His administration has used the war on terrorism as a bludgeon against congressional Democrats and has implied that its critics are aiding the enemy. And it has repeatedly misled the public--touting supposed evidence of Iraq's nuclear program that American intelligence analysts knew was highly dubious, rebuking General Eric Shinseki for telling the truth about how many troops it would take to occupy Iraq successfully, and firing Lawrence Lindsey for saying how much it would cost.
The result is a country bitterly divided, distrustful of its government, and weaker as a result. The next time an American president tries to use force in the war on terrorism, he will not merely lack the world's trust, he will lack much of the American people's as well. That may be Bush's most damning legacy of all. He has failed the challenge of these momentous times. John Kerry deserves a chance to do better.
Jesse Ventura and Angus King. Angus King? Didn't he play backup guitar on a few AC/DC albums? No ... he was one of the nation's better independent governors while he was elected in Maine. King was also a Bush voter in 2000. Ventura slighted the Minnesota media, saying he'd answer question in Los Angeles. Some things just never change.
Comments
As a subscriber, I'd hardly characterize the New Republic as liberal these days. Marty Peretz is about as close to a neocon as you can get, without actually being one. It remains an excellent read, but hardly a liberal rag. The Nation? Mother Jones? Those are liberal magazines.
Posted by: km | October 22, 2004 09:15 PM
The funny Irony is that Kerry was the only candidate in the primary that didn't have a dissenting endorsment. Lieberman was endorsed and writers wrote also endorsements for Gephardt, Dean, Edwards, and Clark.
Posted by: laddy | October 22, 2004 10:45 PM