Finalmente chegou a Super Tuesday que deve confirmar o Kerry como adversário do baby Bush nas próximas eleições. Vale dar uma lida no longo perfil do candidato que o Guardian publicou hj. Além de detalhar a biografia política e algumas idéias sobre política externa...
Kerry's foreign policy seems a muscular multilateralism: active, detailed engagement with the countries in the Middle East and elsewhere; less pompous rhetoric and more of the patient scut work - the diplomatic consultation, the building of direct relationships with local intelligence and police agencies - that will make an occasional use of force by America more palatable. "
... conta algumas histórias interessantes do Vietnã.
His old crewmates remember that he played rock music over the boat's loudspeaker system-the Doors, the Stones, Jimi Hendrix - before they went on patrol. "He starred in that Marlon Brando movie, Apocalypse Now, long before they ever made it," Gene Thorson, a former crewmate, says.
To release the tension after a trip up the river, Kerry would often instigate chicken races between the swift boats, cutting over each other's wakes. He also organised water-balloon battles. Once, his three-boat squadron attacked an American supply ship at night with flares. "The brass was not too happy about that," Kerry recalled. "But what were they going to do to us, send us to Vietnam?"
A The Nation tb traz um perfil positivo do Kerry. A revista americana de esquerda concentra-se nas posições ideológicas e na atuação dele no Senado americano.
After two decades in the Senate, Kerry has a long record that can be picked apart by competitors within his own party as well as in the GOP. And though he has been re-elected three times, he has not developed the best political skills. He has not shed a manner too easily criticized as aloof or patrician. He has had brushes with smarmy campaign financing. But there have been times he has shown courage, devotion to justice and commitment to honesty, open government and principle-over-politics. There are few senators of whom that can be said. A full assessment of the man ought to take these portions of his public service into account.
Além de provavelmente encerrar a disputa democrata, a Super Tuesday vai servir tb para testar os sistemas de votação eletrônica americanos que causa desconfiança entre analistas e devem ser usados em 29% das urnas nas eleições de novembro. Veja C/Net.
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