Reply #10: I have no doubt that Kerry will be better than the chimp

[arikara]

But I sure wish that I felt better about him. I wasn't bowled over by the DNC at all with their razor wire free speech zone and how they stifled anything in the conference that didn't go with their scripted program. How they dragged a woman out in handcuffs for displaying a banner that said End the Occupation in Iraq, and they threw delegates out for wearing peace hats and shirts. So much for respecting the right to dissent, and I think if they do that there then it isn't going to change.

I listened to Kerry's wonderful, inspiring 1971 speech against the Vietnam War and I have a really hard time reconciling that the same person made that speech as who made his acceptance speech at the DNC. I suppose he thinks that he has to play right of centre to win votes, but that's what Gore did and it didn't work for him.

I wish someone could make me feel better about Kerry. I can see people who listen to that war talk having to make the decision on whether to go to the polls and vote for Kerry or to stay home and not vote at all. And I'm afraid that if he continues on his right of centre direction that he will lose the grand momentum of the left and the chimp will somehow manage to steal another election.