My Vegan Drinking Buddy for President

Four years ago talk was of folks preferring Bush over Kerry because Bush was someone that they could see having a beer with. Perhaps there is something to this. I would much rather have a beer that comes with an intelligent conversation and a person who isn't going to shove their religion down my throat. In addition, I think that beer would go down much easier if their political positions closely matched my own. On the other hand, some Americans prefer a night of heavy drinking where you wake up in a pool of vomit in a Kennebunkport jail cell. Go figure.

While John Kerry endorsed Barack Obama, Bob Kerrey backed Hillary Clinton. What's so interesting is his qualified endorsement:

Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was candid about his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, despite what he admitted was an affinity for Barack Obama’s less doctrinaire politics.

But discussing the importance American voters place on a candidate’s personal likability, Mr. Kerrey said: “If you’re talking about having somebody in your living room every day for four years — on the television — people are going to have to like listening to them. In that category, I like Obama better.”

Once again, we have a voter picking a candidate by some criteria other that how well the candidates political positions match their own:

After several friends had e-mailed him a link to an Internet quiz that uses a checklist of issues to determine which candidate a participant matches up best with, Mr. Kerrey said, he “broke down and tried it.”

So, did his answers add up as an Obama person’s?

“No, actually, I was ‘Dennis Kucinich,’ ” he said.

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