Kerry Concerns

Ed Rendell, the esteemed Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, believes that John Kerry is relying too much on Washington insider advisers rather than going by his own instinct, a trap Bill Clinton so successfully avoided. Rendell, however, does believe that Kerry is improving as a campaigner, and he was mightily impressed by the Democratic presidential nominee's decision to throw caution to the wind and attack the Republicans and the NRA over the failure to renew the assault weapons ban - even as Kerry is in a tight race in Pennsylvania, where the gun lobby is powerful. (Rendell had urged Kerry to get tough with the NRA and improve his standing with suburban mothers in the Philadelphia area to maintain an edge in the Keystone State.) I personally agree with the contention that Kerry is improving, but I wonder if he's progressing as a campaigner quickly enough to overtake George W. Bush before November 2

Meanwhile, CBS is in big trouble for accepting likely fraudulent documents betraying a cover-up of Bush's misdeeds as a member of the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, even though the information on these documents is likely true. So the likely fraudulence of the documents and the reporting on it have overridden the veracity of the charges against Bush's Air National Guard record, even while the lack of veracity of the charges against John Kerry's Vietnam War record from a group of conservative Swift Boat veterans was overridden by the reporting on said charges. What the hell is going on here?

Anyway, this Vietnam obsession is getting really ridiculous. . . I mean, do politicians and the media in France still bicker about the war in Algeria?