Here is your chance to convince me

[vernard]

Do your absolute best to convince me that your candidate should be President. Please specifically list how your candidate will be different than the other cnadidates that are running and why that decision is the correct one.

Do not, I repeat do NOT, comment on other folks entries. I just want to see what You think in your own head.

Comments

[unwiredben.livejournal.com]

I'm voting for Kerry because I feel he will govern in a more responsible manner. The Bush adminstration is well known as being very secretive and oriented around making decisions and then justifying them as best they can. They don't seem open to testing ideas, seeing what works, and changing their minds when new evidence indicates that past decisions were wrong. I think Kerry will be far more pragmatic and open to exploring a whole range of ideas. This may mean that we don't stay focused on one objective, but I think it will lead to us making better decisions as they will be based on data and experience and revised regularly as part of an "optimization" process.

On specific issues, I tend to favor the positons I see from Kerry. He isn't trying to win votes from the religious right, so he doesn't have to pander to anti-scientific and isolationist views.

I think Kerry and his people see the war on terrorism as a process, one that requires not just military action, but a comprehensive set of steps that works to correct the problems of the Middle East that have led to us being villanized by the populace there. Terrorism is for the most part a tactic used by stateless movements, and the way we fight it isn't by occupying other countries but by winning over the people of the region, and that's a slow but important task. The fact that Bush is tied in with the neoconservative dreamers is a big drawback -- yes, they have a great vision of the middle east as a new haven for democracy, but you can't get there through war and occupation.