Look, I Just Don't Like Him
Despite the Boston Globe's ongoing love affair with John Kerry, I just can't bring myself to like him.
A portion of those similarly displeased with Kerry take issue with his post-war shenanigans. His brief career as a hippy is enough to turn that portion off. Others are suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his decorations, earned under fire (so the stories go), yet thrown away in a fit of highly visible faux disgust a short time later. Except they weren't his, as we know, and the real ones are now resting comfortably carefully framed and displayed in his office. I consider these parts of Kerry history as poor form, but they're not enough not to vote for him, 30 years on.
There are many more substantive reasons that I would be reluctant to vote for the man.
As a resident of a perpetually impoverished region of Massachusetts, I am intimately familiar with the utter lack of effort on the part of Kerry and his mistress, Ted Kennedy, to improve this part of the world. Now, if you live here it can be kinda funny how self-centered Bostonians can be- the punchline of course is that the state is so ridiculously small. But it's not that funny when the people who run the place actually live that way. Matter of fact, alot of people on Beacon Hill aren't even clear where New York starts; Ted even believes that the NY border runs near Springfield (heard him say it with my own ears). So those of us in western MA, who have seen little real growth here in my lifetime, would ask Mr. Kerry how, if he can't improve an economy on the scale of western Massachusetts, and he's been on the job for about 22 years, how he can claim to have an effective policy for improving the national economy within 4 years? That might sound good on TV, but here we know better.
The economy, though, is not a major concern of mine and does not influence my voting decision. Unlike Ross, I am convinced that I will never have the $$ I think I deserve, regardless of who's President. I'll just continue to work 2-3 jobs until I die, and that's that.
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I think what you need to look
I think what you need to look at is this: How has Massachusetts fared in comparison to the rest of the country?
Apparently there's been little real growth in the rest of the country....
Except that I don't
Except that I don't understand how any President can expect to wave his Executive Sceptre and create jobs. But they all say they can do it- elect me, and I'll "create jobs". Do they all plan on opening businesses big enough to hire America's unemployed and underemployed? I don't like it when candidates use this sort of language, because it doesn't make any sense.
As far as MA's economic lot, it is critical to differentiate between Rt 128 and the rest of the state. By the time you reach I-91 and the river, you're stepping back in time to ca 1958. Except that the mills are closed and Wal Mart is a reasonable career choice.
So if Kerry's gonna say he can create jobs and save economies, he's got some 'splainin' to do about the western half of the state. He can't claim he's done something amazing for MA, when he's likely only referring to the Hub.