Bush's foes want to back Kerry but he's just too vague

[papau]

"I want him to say, 'How many more young American boys have to die now?'" Mr Harkin told the Guardian. "He has to take Bush on for misleading the US into the war on Iraq."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1308209,00.html

Bush's foes want to back Kerry but he's just too vague

Democrat's natural constituency is still searching for reasons to support him

Suzanne Goldenberg in Baraboo, Wisconsin
Monday September 20, 2004 The Guardian

<snip>"I will vote for Kerry, but I don't think I will work for Kerry," she said. "He doesn't grab my heart and say he is someone I need to work for."

There are a lot of young people like Lizzie White in Wisconsin. She is convinced that hers is the new activist generation, a view confirmed by the Pew Research Centre, whose polling has detected more interest in the elections than at almost any time since 1972, when the voting age in America was lowered to 18. <snip>

"Unless John Kerry opens a serious dialogue about the war - and how he is going to end it - he is going to have a problem capitalising on the vote in Wisconsin from people who are sceptical of the war, and anti-war," Mr Nichols said. <snip>

The votes are there for the Democrats; Mr Ziesler is convinced of it. "If he could at least come out and say, 'I am going to stop the war,' that would be a resounding message for the people," he said. "We still need a single message."

[swag]

1. I hope Mr. Harkin heard the speech this morning

over the bullshit puke-noise about Burkett's Rove memos.

[papau]

2. I hope he did also - John must make decision to be as brave as he was in

Vietnam era.

"Yes or no" questions can not have "Yes and no" answers

[stryker18]

3. Kerry isn't too vague

It's the "fog of war" the media has created that makes him look vague. I hope Lizzie White heard Kerry's speech today on Iraq.

[JohnKleeb]

4. He's fine to me

There's a reason I had him as my second choice and would in retrospect perhaps back him.