And the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announce their plan to play football this year
John Kerry made his presidential candidacy official today, which would lead one to wonder if all that campaigning he has been doing was more or less a preseason warm-up. The local NPR affiliate had a story on the Kerry candidacy that seems to be stuck in reverse while Dr. Howard Dean surges ahead in the polls.
Kerry announced his candidacy in South Carolina of all places. Nothing against South Carolina, well, except for the Confederate Flag Flap, but, John, where is the love for your home state? Massachusetts is tainted by the Liberal image, but, hey, we have Republican governor...and a Mormon, no less.
Anyway, this past year has been a disappointing one for our junior Senator: he's played the Iraq flip-flop, pass the blame, hot potato game quicker than anyone. On one hand he did not want to be seen as unpatriotic, then he did not want to be seen as supporting the mess in Iraq. Given the way Republicans like to dispatch of war heroes (see: Chambliss, Saxby; McCain, John; Daschle, Tom; and eventually Powell, Colin) Kerry's testing of the wind seems okay.
Now Kerry has to play catch up to Dean while another (Wesley Clark) mulls his decision to run. If Clark does run, it will be interesting to see how the GW Bush attack machine portrays him as a leftist pinko commie with an unusual affection for Che Guevara and Chairman Mao.
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John Kerry made his presidential candidacy official today, which would lead one to wonder if all that campaigning he has been doing was more or less a preseason warm-up. The local NPR affiliate had a story on the Kerry candidacy that seems to be stuck in reverse while Dr. Howard Dean surges ahead in the polls.
Kerry announced his candidacy in South Carolina of all places. Nothing against South Carolina, well, except for the Confederate Flag Flap, but, John, where is the love for your home state? Massachusetts is tainted by the Liberal image, but, hey, we have Republican governor...and a Mormon, no less.
Anyway, this past year has been a disappointing one for our junior Senator: he's played the Iraq flip-flop, pass the blame, hot potato game quicker than anyone. On one hand he did not want to be seen as unpatriotic, then he did not want to be seen as supporting the mess in Iraq. Given the way Republicans like to dispatch of war heroes (see: Chambliss, Saxby; McCain, John; Daschle, Tom; and eventually Powell, Colin) Kerry's testing of the wind seems okay.
Now Kerry has to play catch up to Dean while another (Wesley Clark) mulls his decision to run. If Clark does run, it will be interesting to see how the GW Bush attack machine portrays him as a leftist pinko commie with an unusual affection for Che Guevara and Chairman Mao.
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