Incompetence!

It is hard for me to imagine that such an important campaign , as the Kerry campaign for President, would have had so many failures. It is not only James Verini who writes about the incompetence of Kerry's campaign. Tony Coehlo, former Gore campaign chairman, described it as a chaos, in a online article in CBS News.

Coehlo states that, no one was in charge and "you have these two teams that are generally not talking to each other. I was not in the United States when the presidential campaigns were working. But I am really surprised that there was (in Kerry's campaign) lack of communication between campaign managers, staffers and volunteers. Also, according to Coehlo, calls and emails for the Kerry campaign were not immediately returned, and that was very bad for the image of the campaign. People tend to lose interest about the candidate when this happens.

It is also sad to read Verini's article and discover that many people involved in Kerry's campaign, were really Bush haters. That means they were working for Kerry not because they truly believe he was the ideal candidate, they just wanted Bush out of the White House. It is like if there was no choice, so you have to choose the less of the evil. Did Americans really felt that way?

This reminds me of a many elections in Ecuador, when we have felt the same way. In our elections, we have two rounds. In the first one we have like 10, 12 candidates running for presidents and then the second round only has the final two. In that stage is when we confront the reality between choosing the less of the evil. Either the rich man, who owns many corporations of the extreme left, or the ex military who was the protagonist of a coup. Though decision eh? For the last three elections it has been the same story, voting not for someone, but against someone. This type of vote damages the real meaning of democracy.