[lbo-talk] Kerry: America First!

[Curtiss Leung]

On the difference between Dems and Repubs: 
except for Kucinich, on Iraq and related matters, 
esp. the Patriot Act,it looks like the differences 
are indeed small.  Obviously greater difference in 
taxes and fiscal policy, but is there any Dem who's
talking about stimulative federal spending?  Maybe
not in those terms, but...balancing the budget,
invoking the grand memory of the Clinton bugdet surplus
seems to be the order of the day.

Biggest difference is probably health care.
I looked over Kerry's health care proposals a while
back.  Can't remember the details, but it seemed decent, 
and there was a lot more there than on Edwards' web site.
Dean may have been better than Kerry (and if I 
remember Max's weblog on this, Gerhardt better than 
that), but that's a dead letter now.

Curtiss


> Bill Clinton would look pretty good at this point. So,
> in fact, would Richard Nixon. 
>
> I really don't care if they lie about their views in
> order to make political capital. If you expect the
> sort of purity that offers the truth, the whole truth,
> and nothing but the truth, you are not going to be
> part of real world politics. Adroit lying is in fact a
> job qualification.
> 
> As for S&B, everybody has a license to be stupid in
> college. He was good afterwards, in VVAW. Not that I
> trust him. But if he can beat W, I'll support him.