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Kerry's Looking for American Failure-And He's It.
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 09-26-2004 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/25/2004 5:30:38 AM PDT by heckler

In this respect, John Kerry isn't exactly the best advertisement for his Swiss finishing school. Forget the impeccable carriage -- if you imagine you're watching streaming video on a slow dial-up connection, his gait seems perfectly natural. But the manners thing seems to have passed him by entirely. His decision to break the time-honored tradition of keeping out of the way during the other guy's convention by rushing on the air within an hour of President Bush's speech to give an instant response was boorish and petty. But, given that his ''midnight rambler'' routine in Ohio was a disaster, there didn't seem much point dwelling on it.

But last week he did it again. Ayad Allawi, the first prime minister of post-Saddam Iraq, was in Washington to give a joint address to Congress. A tough, stocky, bullet-headed optimist, Iraq's interim leader delivered a simple, elegant and moving speech, which made three basic points:

They're six feet from Iraq's head of government and they've got not a question for him. They've got no interest in Iraq except insofar as they can use the issue to depress sufficient numbers of swing voters in Florida and Ohio.

So for Kerry the new world war is just a wedge issue. After their schooling in Switzerland, those well-mannered English gels used to describe themselves as ''finished.'' If he wasn't ''finished'' after graduating from the Institut Montana in Zug in 1955, this week John Kerry is looking finished in a far more American sense

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
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To: heckler

John F'in Kerry:
"I have done a vast, exhaustive,...and comprehensive... survey and analysis of our foreign affairs...."

I have found our failure,..and I am it."


41 posted on 09/25/2004 8:49:31 AM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota
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To: heckler
"Kerry's Looking for American Failure-And He's It."

This schmuck gives the enemy a boost in morale and it started for him in Vietnam.
42 posted on 09/25/2004 9:14:48 AM PDT by Gucho
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota

Bump for a sensational read. Also, Bill Kristol's column today (Saturday) is excellent.... weekly standard.com, I believe.


43 posted on 09/25/2004 9:23:18 AM PDT by mwl1
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To: heckler

BTTT


44 posted on 09/25/2004 9:51:56 AM PDT by spodefly (A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
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To: heckler

sKerry hasn't progressed past the Vietname war. He's locked in a time warp.


45 posted on 09/25/2004 9:53:16 AM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: heckler

If Allawi's talk didn't finish Kerry off, Kerry's did.


46 posted on 09/25/2004 9:55:26 AM PDT by Ed_in_NJ (I'm in old skivvies and New Jersey, and I approved this message.)
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To: heckler
Another brilliant piece by Steyn, chockablock with well-turned phrases. I took on the same subject this week, though with more seriousness and less sparkle. Click below.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Kerry Hasn't Read a History Book"

If you haven't already joined the anti-CFR effort, please click here.

47 posted on 09/25/2004 11:10:54 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Visit: www.ArmorforCongress.com please.)
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To: heckler

"A small, graceless man"

Wow! That will leave a mark!


48 posted on 09/25/2004 11:14:21 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
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To: Enduring Freedom

LOL! Kerry is still in Vietnam.

And .. according to Rush, the Kerry campaign is trying to make Iraq into another Vietnam.


49 posted on 09/25/2004 11:19:02 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
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To: heckler

Wow! Once more into the breech, boys. Thank God for Mark Steyn.


50 posted on 09/25/2004 11:24:54 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Mr. Buzzcut

"pampered cipher"!!!!

Well, that's PC. I'd just say "Piece of Cr....p."


51 posted on 09/25/2004 12:05:19 PM PDT by Socratic (Kerry/Edwards - Forging a New Reality)
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To: heckler

How frighteneing and sad that only 7% less of the voters think as does Kerry.


52 posted on 09/25/2004 12:07:08 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Baynative

I think kerry is acting perfectly natural. He is mean by nature, arrogant by nature, self-serving by nature, snooty by nature. He is just a mean spirited, small thinking, arrogant, me first, twit. The only time he's "charming" is when he's wheedling a widow women for her money.


53 posted on 09/25/2004 2:15:04 PM PDT by tillacum (Danny boy, Oh danny boy, did the documents come from Tavern on the Green or Kinkos in Abilene)
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To: heckler

Just found this story tonight..MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST said it all, did he not?

Regards
fight_truth_decay


54 posted on 09/28/2004 8:38:07 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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