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If this story is true (after Jason Blair / Dan Rather we have to ask) tonight we should see once again - who am I, why am I here admiral, John Kerry. The plethora of advice continues to pour in like money in the movie version of the Titanic. Kerry is getting more advice than the graduate going for that first job interview. Except in the case of Kerry we have a man with over 25 years in the public eye. If he still not loose this late in the game, he should loose on that account alone.

The worst thing that Kerry supporters could have done to him was give him what he apparently is always asking for. If we know anything about Kerry so far is that he is unable to stay on massage, ergo Kerry the flipper. It is highly unlikely that all of the advice that has been pouring in has not been contradicting at least in nuance if not in fact. Indeed, there is nothing more riddle with nuance than advice. The Bush camp could not have asked for more assistance from the main stream press than this one – go on and on (at length) telling Kerry how he can beat Bush.

Kerry - He listens, he’s open minded, he does not rush to judgment and (my favorite) he will go to the UN.

Bush – I will not ask for a permission slip to defend the country. I could not trust the word of a madman; given the choice I will defend America every time.

Kerry – The cold war negotiator at the table sifting thru the numbers.

Bush – Either you are with us or you are with the terrorist.

The more we see Kerry the better his ambassador credentials look.

Kerry is a good talker.

President Bush told America’s confessor Bob Woodward that he did not ask his father for advice on Iraq. That could be spun negatively in a number of ways not lost on 60 Minutes - Did Mr. Bush ask his father for any advice? “I asked the president about this. And President Bush said, ‘Well, no,’ and then he got defensive about it,”

I would argue however that if anybody knew how Bush 41 felt about Iraq, Bush 43 already must have known. Why would Bush 43 put his father in the untenable position of advising him as his father on the one hand and as a former president in the other. As his father his instinct would have been to protect his son But as a former president Bush 41 knows his son’s duty is to the nation above all else.

Had president Bush asked his father for advise on Iraq this campaign would not be about how Kerry cant listen to his gut instinct but about how president Bush did not listen to his own father. Hardly the image of a commander in chief. See Rooney’s - 'If I were Bush Speechwriter' for a taste of what we would have been advisin Kerry to attack Bush with.