Will Kerry Finally Get It?

Again, it seems that some reporter from the New York Times has a great deal of common sense. There is a story about Kerry overusing Vietnam and needing to change his campaign here. I’ll quote the part I really like:

And Senator Christopher J. Dodd, an influential Democrat from Connecticut, said his party's standard-bearer had "a very confused message in August, and the Republicans had a very clear and concise one."

Mr. Dodd was one of several Democrats who said they now thought Mr. Kerry had made a mistake at his convention in July by talking mainly about his history as a Vietnam War veteran and criticizing Mr. Bush's policies, without offering a vision of what a Kerry term would be like.

"We did not adequately lay out the contrast, compare and contrast what a Kerry administration would do and what the Bush administration has done," Mr. Dodd said of the Democrats' convention in Boston. "That was a mistake. Vietnam, in terms of John Kerry's service, that was a good point to make, but making it such a central point sort of invited the kind of response you've seen."

Now, here’s a nice point from a republican:

"If you give me a hundred dollars, I couldn't tell you a single policy thing they talked about,'' Ed Gillespie, the national Republican chairman, said. "They gave us a huge opening, and we jumped on it.''

I believe this confirms that Kerry spent too much time on Vietnam, and gave republicans an easy target with plans for the future. Now, the Kerry campaign simply has to scrap whatever plans it had to reenact Vietnam, evacuate any remaining members from their recent quagmire (in a way reminiscent of Vietnam in 1975), and act like they never made an error in the first place.

Now, I am getting tired of these campaigns, so my next story, published latter today, should be on Sudan. Also, I am trying to widen the margins of this page, so articles can be more easily read.