Kerry needs to show leadership in running his campaign

[Onlooker]

I'm 100% for Kerry and believe he can win, but he must demonstrate his superior leadership skills and get control of his campaign. His campaign needs one solid strategy and needs to stick with it until November 2. It cannot keep second-guessing itself and expect to win.

The one advantage an ideologue has (left or right) in running a campaign is that they can more easily see problems as black or white. Kerry needs to look at his situation in that light. There's a right way or a wrong way, not a thousand gradations of things. Kerry needs to run a more ideological campaign. Instead, he has too many people running his campaign and too many points of view, and they're each canceling the others out, resulting in his point of view getting lost.

This article caused me to post this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/14/politics/main643438.shtml

[David Dunham]

1. Coehlo is a jerk. Even Gore fired Coehlo as his campaign manager.

[readmylips]

2. Kerry needs to be the Pope...

No matter what Kerry does, the challenge from the enemy is; not good enough. Their whole trick is to beat up on the best guy, John Kerry. The only advantage little bush has is; he will get rid of all regulations and protections, and whole no one responsible for the disasters on this country and on earth. The guy is a puppet of the special interest, the one with big money.

We are the citizens. We have the Vote and the anger to kick bush back to hell.

[lancdem]

3. We don't know for certain Kerry hasn't done that

Coehlo could be talking out his ass.

[cheshire]

4. So because on guy say something it gives you rights to tell Kerry how to

do things because you believed him?

[bigtree]

5. I don't buy the notion of a single issue/theme campaign

There is a divergence of issues and concerns among the American voters that will form the opposition to the re-election of the counterfeit loser in the White House.ALL of the concerns are relevant because Bush has failed on everything except in hijacking the sacrifices of our labor to further enrich that minority of Americans who have managed to perpetuate their wealth over the last four years which has ushered in a new underclass of workers and driven millions into poverty, including the soldiers that he has used to perpetuate his manufactured war in Iraq, and prosecute his hollow 'war on terror'.

Kerry is correct in making certain that these voter's needs and concerns don't go unheeded and unaddressed. His theme? Bush is a duplicitous, dangerous liar. We need new leadership. We need someone who understands and will actively respond to the issues that most concern average Americans. The last thing the country needs is a simplistic fool who thinks and talks out of his ass. Americans can think and reason, despite the attempts by the administration and others to dumb us down, and reduce the debate to hominisims and platitudes.

Bush is a dangerous liar who has done nothing for our country. Now comes the focus on the record of the incumbent, massively destructive, and breathtakingly devastating to most of our interests. It's Bush who is second guessing his appeals, which have NOTHING to do with our lives, and everything to do with the agenda of those who would further tie us their facist scheme to disenfranchise the American worker, and mortage our futures to a continuous world war.

Not so hard to understand that.