What the hell does "resolute" really mean, anyway?

The Chicago Tribune endorses Bush.

"...For his resoluteness on the defining challenge of our age ... the Chicago Tribune urges the re-election of George W. Bush."

Ah, resoluteness!

I am absolutely resolute about losing 15 pounds! My goal has always been to lose a little weight. I have never had the goal of gaining weight. I have long resolved to lose these pounds!

(I also had french fries for dinner. Mmm. Tasty.)

OK, so there's more to this endorsement, that resoluteness thing, than that.

"Bush's sense of a president's duty to defend America is wider in scope than Kerry's, more ambitious in its tactics, more prone, frankly, to yield both casualties and lasting results. This is the stark difference on which American voters should choose a president."

I have also been ambitious in my tactics! I was walking an hour to BART in the mornings. In the last year, I also went to a health spa with my mother, joined the gym down the street so I could use their treadmill, and went on several great long hikes.

"The military's plan to defeat Saddam's army worked brilliantly and American troops have distinguished themselves on the battlefield. However, the review found that the president and many of his advisers ignored repeated warnings that rebuilding Iraq would be harder than ousting Saddam and tossed out years of planning about how to rebuild Iraq, in part because they thought pro-American Iraqi exiles and Iraqi "patriots" would quickly pick up the pieces."

Mmm. Tasty fries. The weather is kind of bad right now, so I probably won't go for a walk tomorrow (although I guess I could dig up my umbrella.)

But I am serious about losing those 15 pounds! Resolute, one might say...