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...Kerrey exudes honesty and fairness in a country where a politician's false claims to virtue are often tolerated and constant wheeling and dealing can be respected. He appeals (with no small effort) to some basic "Americanness" many of us identify with--a Western sort of freedom (he wears cowboy boots a lot), a blue-jeaned individuality (he's not tied down by marriage) and a populist fear of Washington (to which the AIPACked and Farmer's Unioned Tom Harkin has much less claim...
Cynical reporters tired of the bickering and half-truths which make up politics eat this stuff up. Bob Kerrey would never hire John Sununu, turn a blind eye to CIA shenanigans or pick an unknown for the Supreme Court. J. Robert Kerrey would not be president of the United States, they reason. He would be president for the United States...
...least I hope he won't be the Democratic nominee. The good press Kerrey has received simply has excused too much. The problem is that he either has not formulated--or is unable to articulate--any set of ideas he believes in. This is not your normal case of campaign dodging. Kerrey is not simply avoiding talking about specific policies he would support as president. Everyone does that...
...Kerrey dances around everything. So far in his nascent stumping, he's shown a tendency to spout support for whatever sounds interesting or popular, and a refusal to mount a strong offensive against President Bush--without which the Democrats will self-destruct. Beyond some broad strokes of Democratic posturing, Kerrey's just not there. And when you do pin him down, his ideas all seem just to come down to personal experiences--especially Vietnam...
...foreign affairs, Kerrey is least articulate. For example, according to New York magazine, he though it was just dandy that Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire...