Okay, read the headline and first few paragraphs with me and tell me whether or not you think this is good or bad :

Kerry’s senate Record Mixed on Defense

John Kerry talks at length about his military service and his strong commitment to the nation’s defense, but his senate voting record on Pentagon spending is a combination of billion-dollar budgets approved and multimillion-dollar weapons opposed.

While the four-term Massachusetts senator has voted for nearly all of the Defense Department’s spending and authorization bills since 1990 ? as the overall total has crept closer to $400 billion ? he has a long record of backing cuts to a number of military aircraft and missile-defense programs, an Associated Press analysis shows.

Leading Republicans, including party chairman Ed Gillespie, have seized on those votes to challenge Kerry, questioning the senate front-runner’s record on national security.

Without even getting into Kerry’s defense, I gotta say that this article makes me like him more. Raising defense spending while cutting funding for all bullshit pet projects like “Star Wars” would do a lot more to strengthen our military than Bush’s plans to make wounded soldiers pay for their own hospital meals. This article makes me think that a president Kerry would be more concerned with spending money on personnel than mini-nukes. That doesn’t sound “mixed” to me.