9.26.2004
NYT turns on Kerry 'Caution' light.
Reporters Adam Nagourney and Jodi Wilgoren provide a story that sums up the general feeling that Kerry is just too nuanced for command. Bright, inquisitive, thinking. Give him that. One can study and thoroughly prepare the game plan, but as Jesse Jackson said:
"A boxer needs a manager and needs a cut manager in the corner and needs someone to handle the towels. But once the bell rings, a boxer needs his instincts."
It's the 'instincts' thing Kerry lacks. How many times has he shifted his position on Iraq? One can know the issues very well but thorough knowledge does not equate with credible action -- that quality is paramount in the efficient prosecution of the office of President of the United States.
In interviews, associates repeatedly described Mr. Kerry as uncommonly bright, informed and curious.
But the downside to his deliberative executive style, they said, is a campaign that has often moved slowly against a swift opponent, and a candidate who has struggled to synthesize the information he sweeps up into a clear, concise case against Mr. Bush.
Even his aides concede that Mr. Kerry can be slow in taking action, bogged down in the very details he is so intent on collecting, as suggested by the fact that he never even used the Medicare information he sent his staff chasing.
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His habit of soliciting one more point of view prompted one close adviser to say he had learned to wait until the last minute before weighing in: Mr. Kerry, he said, is apt to be most influenced by the last person who has his ear.
Has the definite ring of truth.
Reporters Adam Nagourney and Jodi Wilgoren provide a story that sums up the general feeling that Kerry is just too nuanced for command. Bright, inquisitive, thinking. Give him that. One can study and thoroughly prepare the game plan, but as Jesse Jackson said:
"A boxer needs a manager and needs a cut manager in the corner and needs someone to handle the towels. But once the bell rings, a boxer needs his instincts."
It's the 'instincts' thing Kerry lacks. How many times has he shifted his position on Iraq? One can know the issues very well but thorough knowledge does not equate with credible action -- that quality is paramount in the efficient prosecution of the office of President of the United States.
In interviews, associates repeatedly described Mr. Kerry as uncommonly bright, informed and curious.
But the downside to his deliberative executive style, they said, is a campaign that has often moved slowly against a swift opponent, and a candidate who has struggled to synthesize the information he sweeps up into a clear, concise case against Mr. Bush.
Even his aides concede that Mr. Kerry can be slow in taking action, bogged down in the very details he is so intent on collecting, as suggested by the fact that he never even used the Medicare information he sent his staff chasing.
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His habit of soliciting one more point of view prompted one close adviser to say he had learned to wait until the last minute before weighing in: Mr. Kerry, he said, is apt to be most influenced by the last person who has his ear.
Has the definite ring of truth.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 9:28 AM 
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We certainly do not need someone whose main strength is to criticize prior actions of others and tell us that they would have done it better (without explaining exactly what they would have done).
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