Why John Kerry?

Lets get to the point, I do not see any relevancy of Kerry being a Senator for twenty years and his claim to presidency. Mr. Agarwalla must be aware of the fact that the US Senate is a tough place and things do not move fast as one would have wished. Contradictory bills are put together so that a Senator, who wants vote for one bill, cannot do anything because he has to support a different bill that he dislikes simultaneously. Such are the lives for typical Senators, they cannot do much there, but not because they do not want to.

If past performance or experience should be the criteria for this election, I think Senator Kerry is a far superior candidate than President Bush. Kerry volunteered to fight in Vietnam whereas Bush was enlisted with the National Guard to avoid going to War. Kerry came back from Vietnam and had the courage to challenge the establishment for war atrocities. Needless to say that Bush was doing nothing at that time . Bush could not run the parental oil business nor could he manage the baseball team that was given to him to manage. A blank slate for Bush! For the sake of decency, nobody should raise any question beyond that point!

Kerry's Senate record may not be as good as our senator Edward Kennedy or Robert Byrd of Virginia, but he has done some first-rate work for the American war veterans. He has worked for public education reform, children's heath-care and women issues. He has also fought for the environment. Even though there is no legislation that carries his name, I think Kerry is a decent man and intelligent enough to lead the free world with logic and prudence.