Will Collier, the blogger that made the entry, is justifiably surprised with the comment, since it isn’t true.

However, this is what the election has come to, and it isn’t pretty. 

Basically, since 1960, elections have come down to the intermeshing of appearance and sound bites.  I have a good friend at work who recalls that people that listened to the Nixon-Kennedy debate thought that Nixon wiped the floor with JFK, but people that watched it on the tube thought that Kennedy won outright.  This is the case as well, and why Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate. 

Kerry is about as animated as a piece of dog snot, and about as attractive.  He’s a stodgy, arrogant, blue-blooded Northeastern liberal, and there is absolutely no way that he can deny or hide that fact, no matter how many mid-America diners he goes into, or how many skeet shotguns he shoots.  He had no chance against Bush one on one, so he needed to find the weakness in Bush, which the leaders in his party view as Dick Cheney. 

So, they pick a young, attractive, Al Gore-like senator, who has a pretty smile, is relatively well-known from the primaries, and has ‘connected’ with other Democrats....those who know that Kerry is a loser, and would have orgasmed over a Dean or Edwards victory. 

This was done to balance out the obvious shortcomings of Kerry, and that is not good for the Democratic Party. 

When you are forced, because of the climate of the culture, to go with style over substance, you are really treading water.  Kerry wants Edwards because of how he looks on TV, and how he sounds on TV.....Edwards has 4 years of political experience.  He has far less experience than Dan Quayle, but don’t expect the media to belabor the point....Edwards is a liberal, and so are they.

What does that men to us?  Well, the people that are actually able to run the country, but don’t have the pretty, even smile, or the quick tongue, are the ones that are not going to win the Presidency, as opposed to the Bill Clinton’s and the John Kennedy’s.  Everyone knew that Clinton was a classless heel, but he was good with the mic, and kinda good looking, and the women forgot that he was a cheating bastard, and the guys voted for Bush.  Would you ever think that 55% of the voters that elected Clinton were female? It didn’t necessarily surprise me, but the truth is the truth.  People want to pin it to programs and the like, but it’s all about the appearance, the sound bite, and the way that the media shows you. 

Look at this picture:  Do you think that this picture was posted on the Internet because it was the BEST one that Paul J. Richards had?  Or, because it catches Bush slumping?  You decide.  In an era where the media attempts to dictate to us our politics, and our opinions, I wouldn’t put it by them to find the most unflattering pic of Bush to use. 

Now, I will be the first to tell you that the old Rush Limbaugh TV show did the same thing with Bill Clinton, but Rush wasn’t coming at you from a standpoint of being neutral and dedicated only to giving you unbiased information.  He told you right up front that he was a conservative, that the Clintons were liberals, and that he thought that they were buffoons.  No mistake there, and no hypocrisy.

So, Edwards is the salve on the wound that is the Kerry Presidential campaign.  Well, once that salve is found to be butter, and that it isn’t going to do anything substantial to heal what ails it, we’ll see what happens come October. 

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