Reply #55: I believe he was picked for us [View All]

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I saw Ted Rall on C-Span's Book TV a couple of weeks ago and he said the same thing.

Personally, I didn't like Kerry from the get-go. He had an air of entitlement about him like he "deserved" to be president. That is the last kind of person that I trust. I don't vote just to kiss somebody's feet. Especially after looking at his record, I couldn't understand why he'd hold himself in such high regard (esp. voting for Bush's agenda time after time?) Not that any of the other candidates had such impressive records either! But I just couldn't believe that after Kerry's lackluster career he'd think he was presidential material, especially at this crucial point in history. He appeared to be plenty smart enough to know better.

Bush isn't presidential material either, but he had a vastly stronger machine backing him.

Nevertheless, I believe this election was stolen, and Kerry won by the determination of so many voters to get Bush out. As low an opinion of him that I had though, I never expected him to concede so quickly. I was flabbergasted. He may very well pick up the ball again, once the "little people;" on the web, and the third party candidates do most of his work for him. If we do enough of it that he can burst forward and finish off the task convincingly he will do it and take the majority of the credit. That's the usual way of the powerful appropriating the work and energy of the plebes. But I'm not holding my breath that we will be able to come through fast enough given our relative powerlessness.