July 30, 2004

• Fact Check is keeping it up with a couple more looks at campaign ads:

  Kerry’s claim that the Corporate Tax Code is responsible for moving jobs out of the country, and his implication that this aspect of the tax code is the current administration’s doing, is overblown and misleading.

  Yet another ad claiming Kerry is wishy washy is taken to task detail by detail. In some cases, things being claimed are simply wrong. In other cases, his mind did change, but when you look more than superficially, the change of mind makes sense.

  Anyway, is changing your mind so bad?

  If one were to look over the political comments I’ve made in the past four years or so, one would see a lot of movement throughout the political spectrum. As I consider new things, my point of view changes. As I consider more new things, sometimes it changes back. Granted, I’m not in office or running for office, so it is pretty easy to be sure that I’m not doing it to get anything.

  It is an interesting thing.

  I don’t want a politician who will pander to whatever will get them money, influence, or votes at the time.

  On the other hand, I don’t want a politician that is so locked into one set of ideals that they are unwilling to consider what other people have to say.

  So where, exactly, is that line?

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  Apparently, Nancy Reagan has come out against Bush. I still wonder why the Republican party wouldn’t rather have someone like McCain in office.

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  “My friends, the high road may be harder, but it leads to a better place. And that’s why Republicans and Democrats must make this election a contest of big ideas, not small-minded attacks. This is our time to reject the kind of politics calculated to divide race from race, group from group, region from region. Maybe some just see us divided into red states and blue states, but I see us as one America–red, white, and blue. And when I am President, the government I lead will enlist people of talent–Republicans as well as Democrats–to find the common ground, so that no one who has something to contribute will be left on the sidelines.”

  – John Kerry, Democratic presidential
  nomination acceptance speech,
  July 29, 2004

  And if you’re not a Democrat or a Republican? I guess you’re not worth mentioning.

  • 4:45 pm
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