Wednesday, August 27, 2008

HORSERACE

John Kerry's Therapy at the Convention Podium

Tonight, John Kerry raged against the injustice of Election Day 2004.

"Four years ago, you gave me the honor of fighting our fight." Didn't Kerry fight that fight with somebody else? Somebody who he would have put a heartbeat away from the presidency? John something? Doesn't anybody want to think about the kind of judgment that would put that kind of guy in that position?

"President Obama and Vice President Biden will shut down Guantanamo." And bring the terrorists to prisons in your home state.

"We must listen and lead by example because even a nation as powerful as the United States needs some friends in this world." You would think Kerry would notice who's leading France, the pro-American Sarkozy, or Merkel in Germany, or Berlusconi in Italy, or Harper in Canada. Yes, the left party still runs Spain. American power will go on.

"We need a leader who understands all our security challenges, not just bombs and guns, but global warming, global terror, and global AIDS." Bush has spent fortunes fighting AIDS around the world, and I thought Bush and Cheney were supposed to be too obsessed with fighting terror.

But then Kerry turned to exorcising the demons from four years ago. "Talk about being for it before you're against it." Ha-ha-ha! Hey, everybody, remember the line that cost me the presidency four years ago?

An entire paragraph was focused on... Fox News analyst Karl Rove. Kerry railed against the "smears of Karl Rove," and "Rove tactics" and "Rove staff" and then the "Rove-McCain tactics."

I like the line, "Time and again, Barack Obama has seen farther, thought harder, and listened better," because it's a really nice way of saying he hasn't done anything.

"Today, Bush's diplomats are doing exactly what Obama said: talking with Iran." And boy, isn't that productive: "Instead, the informal two-page document Iran distributed at nuclear talks in Geneva on Saturday ignored the main demand from six nations on curbing Iran's enrichment of uranium and called for concessions from the other side, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times."

On Georgia, Kerry said McCain "responded immediately with the outdated thinking of the Cold War." You know who else was using the outdated thinking of the Cold War? Vladimir Putin, Medvedev, and the Russian Army. Kerry said Obama responded like "a statesman of the 21st Century," which suggests that the next 92 years are going to feature a lot of blaming countries that get invaded for provoking powerful neighbors.

"How insulting to suggest that those who question the mission question the troops." Interesting comment from the guy who said, “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Again, Kerry went back to denounce the "lies of Swift boating."

Kerry said that the flag, "doesn't belong to any political party, it is an enduring symbol of our nation." Yes, but only one party's candidate made a big show of stopping wearing a flag pin, saying it had become "a substitute for true patriotism."

"Years ago, when we protested a war, people would weigh in against us saying 'my country right or wrong.'" Ah, thank you, Senator, I was wondering when Vietnam would come up. Say, readers, did you know Kerry served in Vietnam?

08/27 10:10 PMShare