Capitiol Times endorses Kerry (no surprize)

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Editorial: Kerry for president

An editorial
October 28, 2004





John Kerry in Wisconsin this week. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)


America will survive Tuesday's presidential election, no matter who wins. This is a strong, good country with the wherewithal to withstand even the failures of our executives.


But an American election should not be about merely muddling through. Rather, it should be about charting the course of a nation that has a far grander capacity for greatness than is acknowledged by the gray, soulless men who call themselves leaders but are, in truth, merely managers of a land diminished by their lack of vision. An American election should be about hope, and possibility, and the fulfilling of the promise made by Jefferson and kept by Lincoln and Roosevelt and Kennedy that this experiment would forever be the "signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government."

If it is our destiny in this election season to renew the promise of America, then the choice is absolutely and unequivocally clear. On Tuesday, we must elect John Kerry as the 44th president of these United States.

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1. No surprise

But as always, rather eloquent.