Tuesday, June 29, 2004
(11:34 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
On changing one's mind
If I hear or read one more person claiming that John Kerry's record of sometimes changing his mind is a major, worrisome character flaw, I am going to fucking scream.
I hate that he voted for the Iraq War; I think that he shouldn't have been so trusting of President Bush's "information." He got burned badly along with the rest of us, and he learned his lesson a little more quickly than his Democratic compatriots, since he voted against the blank check Bush asked for later. More information came in; Kerry changed his mind. How is that supposed to be bad?
This little meme is even more frustrating when it's used to paint Kerry as an unintelligent or thoughtless person.
I'd also like to add that when I was reading Chalmers Johnson's Blowback, a detailed manifesto on the destructive effects of US militarism, the names that most came up when he discussed people in Congress trying to curtail militarism were Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry. All the Bush propaganda about how Kerry voted to cut the military is mostly based in fact. I think that's wonderful.
