Americans "are possibly the dumbest people on the planet," Moore told the British paper the Mirror. "We've got that big (expletive) grin on our face all the time because our brains aren't loaded down," he told a crowd in Munich. "The U.S. government started the war in Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich," he told a Japanese newspaper. "It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton," he said in Cambridge, England.
So Moore is radical and a hater. But we've had a lot of those in our history. The big difference is that Moore is now embraced by the Democratic Party's establishment. Among those paying homage at his film's Washington opening were Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Florida Sen. Bob Graham, a Democrat. What on earth are these people doing at a Michael Moore premiere? They're scared. America has been undergoing a sea change over the past quarter-century, and Democrats, in this election, are trying to turn back the tide. Whatever it takes.
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We need to remind Kerry supporters that standing with Michael Moore is the same as standing with David Duke - something that no Republican politician does.
This proves the premise I've stated elsewhere. Howie Dean moved the Dim candidates further to the left. Now MM has reframed and restaged the Dim position to the extreme fringe left and all debate from the left must proceed from that base now or fall flat with their supporters. Kerry is too ineffectual to pull the discourse back towards the center and too left himself to want to. MM has defined the point of departure for Dem candidates just as the Dim Convention is about to begin. It can only get crazier from here on out.