Things have gotten so slow around here that those of us on the left are debating amongst ourselves. I want to see some spirited defense from the Bush camp, something we can sink our teeth into. As for Bush sending Rice before the Commission being an example of his response to failed policy, the administration position of ‘executive privilege’ was leaking so badly that the water was up to Bush’s eyeballs before he relented, and even then Janet Jackson gave a better performance on ‘SNL’ than Condi did in person. In the meantime…

While the Minister of Agriculture did commit an error in parliamentary procedure by addressing me directly rather than speaking to the blog at large, he is correct that I don’t agree carte blanche with all of the Democratic Party positions and the protectionist rhetoric specifically. I’ve also made personal note of the medal flap and the war vote flap and several other missteps, but I think those are campaign errors, not character or leadership flaws. I’ll save my arguments concerning free trade for when a Democrat is in office, because I don’t think anything Kerry might do to the economy will be as bad for the country as the Iraq fiasco that Bush will perpetuate if reelected. On issues of character, Kerry could change every one of his positions twice in the next two months and I still think he’d be a better model for integrity and honesty than the Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfield crowd. On that front, I suspect the Minister of Agriculture and I agree.

Finally, the Democrats have had at least one worse campaigner/candidate in my memory: otherwise we’d now be debating President Gore’s merits instead of Bush’s failures.

Believe.