"Kerry is doing his best to abdicate his responsibility of his votes. I'll wait until the debates to see if he gets away with it."
Debates will solve nothing. Even if there is a person patient, tolerant and intelligent enough to bring the entire record to light (from either side), it couldn't possibly happen in the sound-byte world of a debate. Time constraints alone prevent any meaningful truth from being revealed.
For instance, this article...
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=252
... and that website generally have good reviews of the various attacks, and what might constitute a sane and sensible defense. However, if Kerry (or Bush, for that matter) were to go to that amount of detail in a debate, he would immediately be cast as a spineless, hair-splitting flip-flopper. He can't afford that, and so he won't say it.
But John Kerry doesn't need to defend himself as such. His actual record is perfectly available for debate, and it appears he is actually a fairly complicated person with views that have changed several times in his life. But, then, according to the zeitgeist, that makes him weak and foolish.
Jester
Edit: It seems the main page is largely pro-democrat at this point. It's been fairly even throughout, check the archives for more detail. I don't mean to link to partisan material.
Debates will solve nothing. Even if there is a person patient, tolerant and intelligent enough to bring the entire record to light (from either side), it couldn't possibly happen in the sound-byte world of a debate. Time constraints alone prevent any meaningful truth from being revealed.
For instance, this article...
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=252
... and that website generally have good reviews of the various attacks, and what might constitute a sane and sensible defense. However, if Kerry (or Bush, for that matter) were to go to that amount of detail in a debate, he would immediately be cast as a spineless, hair-splitting flip-flopper. He can't afford that, and so he won't say it.
But John Kerry doesn't need to defend himself as such. His actual record is perfectly available for debate, and it appears he is actually a fairly complicated person with views that have changed several times in his life. But, then, according to the zeitgeist, that makes him weak and foolish.
Jester
Edit: It seems the main page is largely pro-democrat at this point. It's been fairly even throughout, check the archives for more detail. I don't mean to link to partisan material.