Kerry's Foreign Legion

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 15, 2004 | Editorial (presumably Paul Gigot)

[Tom D.]

John Kerry has made "bring it on" a catch-phrase indicating his eagerness to debate national security. So we can only assume he'll be willing to elaborate on his recent remark about his private conversations with foreign leaders.

Last Monday in Florida, the Senator told reporters that, "I've met with foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly. But, boy, they look at you and say: 'You've got to win this. You've got to beat this guy. We need a new policy.' Things like that."

[johnny7]

Kerry has the backing of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and all the major newspapers in the nation. 75% of Americans believe that conservatism is cruel, war-like and only for the rich. What he thinks or speaks is really not the issue... the issue is to defeat Bush. The issue is to embrace further socialist programs, open marriage to sexual deviants and mock Christianity.

[OESY]

Who are these foreign leaders, and what is Mr. Kerry privately saying that makes them so enthusiastic about his candidacy? What "new policy" is he sharing with them that he isn't sharing with Americans?

Since Kerry has (ironically) "no plans," only criticism, and no explanations for his latest gaffe, it looks increasingly like Kerry made a wishful boast that is unlikely to be true. While he wants voters to believe he's connected to the international community of cosmopolitan countries, his boast is just a smokescreen for giving certain nations a veto over US foreign policy, even when their opposition to the war was promoted by Saddam's payola machine. Kerry deserves condemnation in the strongest terms for wanting to sell out US national interests.

[Gothmog]

According to James Taranto's "Best of the Web" on the WSJ web site Friday, 3/12/04:

"But we did find one foreign leader of sorts who is publicly endorsing Kerry. The Majorca Daily Bulletin (second item) quotes Jose Luiz Zapatero, the Socialist candidate for prime minister of Spain: 'The first thing I will do when I am elected is to go to the United States and support John Kerry.'"

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

So, Kerry's got the support of the N Koreans and the socialists. How long until Kerry tries to sneak contributions from them? Maybe Al Gore and the Clintons could help.

[Fiddlstix]

Mr. Kerry doesn't seem eager to fill in those blanks. On Friday, the Washington Times reported that a careful search of travel records of both Mr. Kerry and major foreign leaders reveals that he hasn't made an official foreign trip since 2002 and hasn't even been in the same U.S. town as a visiting foreign leader, except for a day in September when he was in Washington the same day as New Zealand's foreign minister.

Very interesting
I wonder what Ho Chi Kerry's explanation might be?

[Steven W.]

So is the Senator using the phone? E-mail?

That can't be - Kerry said he saw their look which meant he either had to be in their presence or using video phones.

[Steven W.]

We have no evidence, beyond Mr. Kerry's own boasting, that he is doing this sort of thing

Actually that is incorrect - the Iranian government published letters that Kerry has been sending to any potential member of the Axis of Evil or the Axis of Weasels to tell them that, once in office, a Kerry administration will apologize to the terrorists and pursue a new course of relations with evil dictators like Iran's mullahs.

[Gothmog]

Good point, I haven't seen anyone else point that out. But Kerry couldn't be lying, could he?

[Bobby Chang]

The Left is always saying, "Al Qaeda, you win. We'll let you have it." We, on the other hand, are "All right, Al Qaeda. Put up or shut up. Bring it on, you're toast!"

[ZULU]

"John Kerry has made "bring it on" a catch-phrase indicating his eagerness to debate national security. So we can only assume he'll be willing to elaborate on his recent remark about his private conversations with foreign leaders."

No more than he will elaborate on the circumstances of his three "purple hearts", his wife's 57 foreign companies draining jobs from American workers, his wife's financing of far left wing activist groups, or his disgraceful lies about American boys after he exited himself from Viet Nam.

[CharlieOK1]

is it too taboo for anyone, especially in the media, to call this what it is: TREASON. He is undermining our president in a time of war. WTF else do you have to do to be convicted of Treason? This sucks!

[Tom D.]

Kerry may have the support of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The Washington Post, the New York Times, the LA Times and several other big newspapers; however, he definitely does not have much support on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, the premier newspaper in this country, if not in the world.

Kerry has no support in the Washington Times, an increasingly major newspaper in the United States.

Kerry has little support (in the scheme of things) on the two "news" media that are rapidly replacing TV network news, much the way that TV network news replaced newspapers, Talk Radio and more importantly, the internet.

[The Raven]

As much as Mr. Kerry may loathe the Bush Administration, it does still have responsibility for U.S. foreign policy. That includes conducting diplomacy on such matters as trying to stop the North Koreans and Iranians from developing and proliferating nuclear weapons. We sure hope Mr. Kerry isn't giving either of these countries the idea that if they can merely stonewall for another few months, the Senator will then ride to their rescue.

According to the Financial Times, Radio Pyongyang is replaying some of Mr. Kerry's speeches and North Korea's official news agency, which rarely has kind words for Americans, has welcomed in "glowing terms" the Senator's "pledge to adopt a more 'sincere attitude' toward North Korea if elected." Let's also concede to Mr. Kerry an early edge on the Jacques Chirac endorsement.

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