I think that Kerry , regardless of what people are saying, including a lot of people with whom I agree, CANNOT spell out the extent of his opposition to war in general. It would be, sadly, a devastating blow to his chances. While Bush has to hide his true right-wing, neocon tendencies becuase they wouldn’t sell (which he did in 2000, and is doing it again), Kerry has to hide his true feelings and intentions that sit to the left of the public opinion. It is , no doubt, a sad state of affairs. But I believe that Kerry IS and WOULD be an order of magnitude higher on the scale of international ethics and national behaviour.

The level of total capitulation to corporate interests has made Bush an accessory to absolute greed, and that’s what seems to me to signal grave danger when he says things like “I mean what I say”; in other words, “whatever it takes” has a much more ominous meaning in the sense that he is determined to show commitment to an absolute cowtailing to the interests of the “partners” in the neoconservative regime.

Someone just said on Meet The Press “They (the debates) will be important, because people are yet to figure out who JOhn Kerry is, and that’s unusual at this stage of the game”. Huh? I hear that every election cycle. It’s one of the GOP talking points. It’s pretty clear that the GOP consistently attacks “nuance” and the more complex arguments. The extent of Bush’s deception of the electorate, his reversing of his “campaign promises”, and the veil of secrecy that cacoons the real workings and deals of his adminstration belies his simplistic insistence that he “means what he says” (and his cronies and ditto-heads repeat the mantra over and over, all the whil being ignorant of how “their man” is taking them and their children and their future for a ride, and robbing them blind, and drafting their kids (not the administratrion’s kids), but THEIRS, into a future that promises endless uprisings against the demonic corporate power that will use ANY methodologies , and one of their largest programs/policies is the one which is in place to “reverse spin” and deceive the public on the real intentions of the administration.