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 ...
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."
Bump for a sensational read. Also, Bill Kristol's column today (Saturday) is excellent.... weekly standard.com, I believe.
BTTT
sKerry hasn't progressed past the Vietname war. He's locked in a time warp.
If Allawi's talk didn't finish Kerry off, Kerry's did.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column, "Kerry Hasn't Read a History Book"
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"A small, graceless man"
Wow! That will leave a mark!
LOL! Kerry is still in Vietnam.
And .. according to Rush, the Kerry campaign is trying to make Iraq into another Vietnam.
Wow! Once more into the breech, boys. Thank God for Mark Steyn.
"pampered cipher"!!!!
Well, that's PC. I'd just say "Piece of Cr....p."
How frighteneing and sad that only 7% less of the voters think as does Kerry.
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.
Just found this story tonight..MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST said it all, did he not?
Regards
fight_truth_decay
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