John Kerry--If Only

If only John Kerry had said in the 2004 campaign what he said last night in the 2008 campaign he might have been our president for the last four years.

I will not speculate about how history might have been different with Kerry as president. But I will say that his speech at the Dem convention was more powerful and authentic than those he made when he was the Dem candidate in 2004.

The brilliance of his speech this time around was his ability to turn the tables on McCain as the ultimate flip flopper. He pulled it off using McCain's on words.

The brilliance of Kerry's speech was his use of the labels, Senator McCain and Candidate McCain, to expose and lay bare the differences which McCain as a Senator and McCain as a candidate claims to believe in and support.

The positions which McCain told us he believed in as as senator are diametrically opposed to the positiions he now claims to believe in as a presidential candidate

So much for the Straight Talk Express.

How much more slack is the public willing to give him? How far will the American people be willing to go to honor a soldier who was captured and tortured? Elect him president?

My disgust with McCain is about his willingness to play on the emotions of voters whom he wants to influence to support him solely based on his horrible and terrifying experience as a captive American soldier. His use of that image as a POW to deflect any and all legitimate challenges to his record as a politician is ---------------------. I ask you to fill in the blanks.

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper.