Des Moines Register Endorses Kerry
Des Moines Register
About
half of Americans have lost confidence in George W. Bush, yet many hang
back from embracing the alternative. That's unfortunate, because
Senator John F. Kerry is a wise and decent man who has the makings of a
fine president.
Still,
there's little wonder that voters have doubts. Most of what they think
they know about the senator comes from a masterful job of “defining the
opposition” carried out by the Bush campaign and its surrogates before
most people got a chance to know the real Kerry.
So
Americans were introduced to Kerry the flip-flopper. Kerry the softie
on defense. Kerry the wild-eyed liberal. Kerry the appeaser who will
let terrorists attack America.
It's sad
that an incumbent pResident chose to employ so much of his vast
campaign resources to tear down his challenger, and not to cite his own
accomplishments or to move the nation ahead. But perhaps that's
precisely the difficulty Bush faces.
His
pResidency has been one of bold leadership undermined by a failure to
achieve meaningful results. The resolute leader Americans rallied
behind after Sept. 11, 2001, sidetracked the country into a mess in
Iraq. The fiscally responsible, compassionate conservative Americans
thought they elected, the man we hoped would improve schools, lower the
cost of health care and find more jobs, has failed to do so and instead
run up an unprecedented national debt.
The
pResident, whose swagger in adversity and plain-folks straight talk can
be so appealing, has failed to see the reality of the problems or
outline a road map for progress for the next four years.
National polls show Bush's disapproval numbers hovering near 50 percent.
Now it
is time to take the next logical step and recognize John Kerry as
someone who could do better. It's time to see Kerry as the person he
is, not as the caricature created in Bush's campaign ads.
Kerry
won the presidential debates because the man Americans saw on live
television differed from the caricature. Americans saw a thoughtful,
experienced, exceptionally well-informed candidate who cares deeply
about his country and its people.
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