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[pearwaldorf]

Pollsters like to ask voters which candidate they’d most like to have a beer with, and on that metric Bush always wins. We prefer to ask which candidate is better suited to the governance of our nation.

The New Yorker, for the first time in history, has endorsed a Presidential candidate.

Comments

[redgreenblue.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that. I'd love to have a beer with Kerry if only for the reason that I like my drinking buddies to be smart. Bush seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't surrender his keys after he's had too much to drink (and I suspect this happened often). Kerry would give them to me ahead of time, and he wouldn't drink a whole lot anyway.

Bravo to The New Yorker for that. That is one fantastically-written piece of prose.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

I think Bush would be an awful drunk. And he'd drink only shit like Coors or Busch. Kerry, at the very least, I think would be one of those pontificating drunks that mumbles a lot and is really amusing because you know nothing he's saying makes sense. And you could take him out for something other than beer.

I am cautiously optimistic about this whole endorsement thing. My hometown paper of record has endorsed a Democrat for the second time ever in its hundred-some year history, despite the fact that it's in La La Liberal Land. I don't remember who it was they endorsed the first time, but they picked Wendell Wilkie over Roosevelt, if that tells you something. I hope it means something good.