Knucklehead and Sun Tzu,

Yes, both Lincoln and FDR faced opposition and suffered set backs in their wars. Ultimately, they rallied the people behind them with their leadership. That’s why they, and not Lyndon Johnson, are considered great war leaders.

I brought them up to illuminate today’s situation. Kerry is a weak candidate, so weak he gets no post convention bounce, yet he is running neck and neck with Bush at the moment.

Why?

People on the right have dredged up their conventional boogy man — the Mains Stream Media. I don’t agree. I’ve suggested that it has a lot to do with Bush’s own weak points as a President. In my opinion his prime weakness is his inability to articulate his broad strategy on the War on Terror. Considering the lesson of Tet — that you can win a battle and lose the war — that is frightning to me. Pretending he is a Churchill at the podium serves no purpose.

At any rate, he is the better of the two alternatives. One can only hope in his second term, if he has a second term, he finds a stronger voice than he’s shown so far.