[SAMWolf]

In 2004, in terms of political maturity and courage, the far better man is George W. Bush.

Agreed.

[lainde]

Oh MY! This is a breathtaking analysis...Just excellent. Thank you for posting!!!

[binger]

[lilylangtree]

I get this impression that Kerry wets his index finger with his tongue. He then holds up that wet finger in the air. Wherever the wind is blowing is the direction that he takes. He's leaderless, rudderless, lacklusterless, helpless, directionless, idealess and spineless.

[1066AD]

John Kerry from the daredevil hero who served in Vietnam.
But was he ? Not to diminish the service of anyone there, but is there a danger of a new "truth" being established ? If Kerry was such a daredevil etc why does he resist release of his daredevil records ?

[SunkenCiv]

Kerry's MO is to support something (or at least not attack it) and then attack people who act on his words. He attacks Bush for trashing the Kyoto Treaty, but did not support it when it came up in the Senate; voted for Bush's education program, and then savaged it; supported the Patriot Act, and savaged John Ashcroft when he carried it out. He was for a unilateral American foreign policy when proposed by Bill Clinton, against it when suggested by either George Bush... "He was for affirmative action, just not this affirmative action. He was for a drug war, just not this drug war. He was for an Iraq war, just not this Iraq war." ...for weapons systems, but not those actually proposed; for the use of force, but under no conditions that anybody can imagine or foresee. He voted against the first Gulf War in 1991, but said he was not against using force then, and he voted for the second Gulf War in 2002, but said he never imagined that force would be used. In 2002, 2003, and 2004, he attacked George Bush the younger for not having taken the route followed by George Bush the elder, which he hadn't supported at the time. In 1991, he accused the elder George Bush of a "rush into war" (does this sound familiar?) and derided his coalition as "bizarre new bedfellows" and "shadowy battlefield allies."

Kerry reminds me of the outdoor harangue scene in the book "1984"...