John Kerry was featured on an MTV special called "Choose or Loose". Watching this, I realized that Kerry has over time become more and more of a mystery to me. Often he speaks in generalities, not revealing tangible or specific plans to, for instance, end the war and normalize relations with the middle east and with the rest of the world.

During the MTV special his "quiet courage" was noted in the segment hilighting his Vietnam War experience, during which Kerry risked his life and after which he became a war dissident.

THE SUPREME FITNESS OF JOHN KERRY

There is something about him that is almost secretive, though not in same way as the crooked Bush administration is secretive. To be sure, he is an honest guy, and, as michael moore said, "in his heart he is Anti-war". The problem, I think, may be that the democrats have not yet devised a plan to undo the destruction made by the worst presidency in our nation's history. In fact it occured to me as I looked into Kerry's eyes that deep down he REALLY WOULD PREFER TO NOT BE PRESIDENT and preside over such a great challenge as the reconstruction of a government, indeed a nation, in shambles. His ambiguity, his caution, his hesitation, is all really reluctance.

He may infact turn out to be the only president on par with FDR. Plato was right in thinking that the most able and fit leaders are the most reluctant to rule because they know the responsability that comes with power. Exploiters, megalomaniacs and their puppets, on the other hand, knowing what they're about, are more than eager to carry the weight, if only to advance their own aims.

That Bush won by the smallest margin ever for an encumbent president is a sign not of Kerry's appeal to voters, but of the widely percieved incompetence of the Bush administration. Under no other circumstance would a candidate as able as Kerry get this much support, or even win the first round in the primaries. Unless we are in as dire straits as we were during the great depression, it is highly unlikely that we will see rulers the likes of FDR or Kennedy holding the reins, at least not if its up to the voters (the will of the people, on the other hand, is an entirely different matter, but this is a discusison for another time). Clinton, a less able leader, won both elections with less votes than kerry lost with, percentagewise as well as in raw numbers. However, given the chance to run, Clinton would have defeated Bush in 2000 and in '04. Why? because like Kennedy, Clinton has the appeal of King Charles I, who was not only lazy and a womanizer, but negligent enough to keep the status quo -- the greatest appeal one can possibly have-- and, as George Bernard Shaw put it, just clever enough to "keep my crown on my head and my head on my shoulders". Kerry, on the other hand, has only the appeal of a competent, hardworking, progressive leader, which, as far as voters are concerened, is no appleal at all.

Note also that this holds true whether or not the elections were stolen. Again, had this been Clinton Vs. Bush II, the republicans would have been wise enough to not cheat their way through the elections, and either pick another candidate or accept an inevitable loss. Clinton's voters would simply not tolerate a fraudulent Bush win and their claims of fraud would be carried to, and upheld by, the supreme court. Democrats and their electorial base will vote for Kerry, but, unlike Clinton, they are not willing to fight for him -- Kerry is simply not appealing enough during these less-than-dire circumstances.

The Democrats could have given Howard Dean the candidacy, but, despite the media industry's excellent job of portraying the presidential race as a pageant, they also had to find someone adequately prepared for the grueling, painstaking work that would be ahead of them -- that is, in case they actually won the election.
That adequate person was John Kerry, not Howard Dean, who (and Im not trying to sound like a jerk) was suspisciously eager to accept the job, a dead give away, by Plato's paradigm, that the Vermont governor had no clue what he could have gotten himself into. In addition, given the extent of the damage made by the Bush team, this was clearly a job for a washington-insider. That was the supreme fitness of John Kerry.