I'm Going to Marry Frontline

Last night PBS aired their Choice 2004 show describing the two candidates. If you missed it you can access it here: The Choice 2004

It was an even-handed opinionless look at the very different lives of John Kerry and George Bush from their education at Yale to their current jobs as Senator and President. The show was about two hours long and I was pretty wrapped up in it. The facts were none that I'd never heard before, but the manner in which they were presented was new: especially two interesting tapes of Kerry's name being mentioned by Nixon as a possible Anti-War organizer to watch (which he did) and Kerry debating the GOP's candidate for Massachusetts governor in the mid-90's.

What I came away thinking is that Kerry is just a very thoughtful person who will weigh all the options before making any decision and Bush has gut/providential feelings about things and sort of barrels ahead. The Kerry campaign would have benefited to introduce the candidate like this program did a few months ago.

All in all, friends, I'm still voting for Kerry and certainly not for Bush.

On the topic of the quagmire that is Iraq, here's an email from a reporter in Iraq that is just very depressing.