Kerry’s surprising victory could be bad news for Bush because the anti-war people, perceiving the de facto war of choice, have modified their stand that it is best to elect one who thirty years ago as a veteran led the anti-war movement. They reasoned that who but a veteran, having experienced the heartbreak of a war predicated on disinformation qualifies to lead the nation back to sanity?


Iowans finally realized that Kerry’s senate vote for the war — just as I had expressed in previous blogs — was to give a president of good faith to carry the vote of confidence to the UN to get tougher with Saddam and to expose him as a charlatan and hopefully lead to regime change by the people of Iraq. Iowans of the democratic caucuses also reasoned that what’s done is done is no reason that a different direction is not forthcoming by a man who deeply understands foreign policy to be primarily diplomatic relations with a community of nations.


Furthermore, domestic policy was also very much bristling in the caucuses over the ineluctable drive on the part of the administration to ride roughshod over the middle class in behalf of the privileged and corporate world determined to perpetuate their dynasties through tax-cuts and ever-increasing shelters. [Still ringing in their ears was Gore’s populist echo of the “rich and powerful.”]


Finally the cries for health care for all as a right has begun to stick with the people who understand after decades of this issue only worsening that action to eradicate this shame must materialize.