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The New York Times has a substantial article on John Kerry's decision making process. Hera are some excerpts:
"Mr. Kerry is a meticulous, deliberative decision maker, always demanding more information, calling around for advice, reading another document -- acting, in short, as if he were still the Massachusetts prosecutor boning up for a case.Then a little later,
"In interviews, associates repeatedly described Mr. Kerry as uncommonly bright, informed and curious.No doubt my friend, Ben, would see this as a good thing. My mind keeps going back to Jimmy Carter, who had, it seems, a similar style. If Kerry becomes president, hopefully, he wouldn't become mired as Carter did.
"But the downside to his deliberative executive style, they said, is a campaign that has often moved slowly against a swift opponent, and a candidate who has struggled to synthesize the information he sweeps up into a clear, concise case against Mr. Bush.
"Even his aides concede that Mr. Kerry can be slow in taking action, bogged down in the very details he is so intent on collecting, as suggested by the fact that he never even used the Medicare information he sent his staff chasing."
Posted by Dean
at 12:01 AM CDT
Updated: Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:09 AM CDT