What personality characteristics do you attribute to each candidate?

[Loren Booda]

Cast your stone...

May the best grin win.

[selfAdjoint]

They are both egotists. Bush is a stubborn egotist and Kerry is a flexible one (everybody commented on how fast Kerry learned to work the camera during the debates, whereas Bush seemed out to lunch except in the second debate which was a familiar format to him).

[omin]

Bush is a murderer and then theif.

Kerry want's to head the murder and theft for four years.

[Gokul43201]

Bush : "incompetent", "mediocre"
Kerry : "erudite", "sometimes inexplicable", (but currently) "pandering"
Nader : "sometimes idealist" (but now, simply) "non-realist"

[Moonbear]

Bush: impatient, impulsive, awkward, arrogant
Kerry: intellectual, restrained, confident, arrogant

[The_Professional]

Bush = cowboy
Kerry = metrosexual

[plover]

Bush = cowboy
Kerry = metrosexual
For those that are unaware, here's the story behind those descriptions (http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_26.php#003555).

[False Prophet]

Bush = Good sense of humor. Poor English. Has charisma and poor decision making ability. Broken-record style repitition.

Kerry = Arrogant. Overambitious. Lacks creativity. Broken-record style repitition.

Both don't seem to give a phlaming phuck about the environment.

[False Prophet]

Why did Kerry never challenge the Bush statistic "75%" of Al-Queda in custody. How can we know that? Do these Al-Queda operatives wear name-tags? Do the sleeper cells in every country register with the census that they work for Al-Queda?

[Moonbear]

Why did Kerry never challenge the Bush statistic "75%" of Al-Queda in custody. How can we know that? Do these Al-Queda operatives wear name-tags? Do the sleeper cells in every country register with the census that they work for Al-Queda?

Probably for the very reasons you just listed. We can be skeptical, but it's not like we can come up with a hard number of our own to refute Bush's stats. It's interesting though, because if you can quantify how many are in custody, it implies you also can identify the other 25% not in custody, so why are they still running free if you know who they are?

[Mercator]

I would say
Bush=ideologue
Kerry=pragmatist

Ideologues belong in the 19th century.

[Gokul43201]

Why did Kerry never challenge the Bush statistic "75%" of Al-Queda in custody. How can we know that? Do these Al-Queda operatives wear name-tags? Do the sleeper cells in every country register with the census that they work for Al-Queda?

This is from CNN :


Claim: Bush said that 75 percent of known al Qaeda members have been brought to justice.

CNN Fact Check: Bush incorrectly suggests that under his watch 75 percent of al Qaeda's membership has been brought to justice. CIA officials have estimated that 75 percent of the two-dozen or so al Qaeda leaders known as of September 11, 2001, have been killed or captured.

The non-partisan International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates that al Qaeda has 18,000 potential operatives, but there is no official data on the size of al Qaeda's total membership, in part because it is difficult to track the number of new recruits since the Iraq war began.

[Ivan Seeking]

Thinking in terms of college students taking an exam

Bush: Sneaking looks at answers given by the A student sitting next to him.
Kerry: The A student sitting next to him.