A voter expresses displeasure with John Kerry.
Posted on 09/27/2004 3:18:21 AM PDT by kattracks
t isn’t hard to see, or hear. All one has to do is listen to John Kerry for a bit. His every word drips of it. It emanates from his every action. John Kerry is arrogant. This has never been more obvious than in his recent remarks about Iraq in the face of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s speech to a joint session of Congress. John Kerry essentially said that the prime minister didn’t know what he was talking about and that he, John Kerry, did.
We’ve heard about Kerry’s legendary elitism. We’ve heard the stories of him bucking lines in small town Massachusetts, chastising those he usurped with a flippant, “Don’t you know who I am?” We’ve read accounts of him demeaning Secret Service agents for his lack of balance on his snowboard – “I don’t fall down. That son-of-a-bitch knocked me over.” It’s clear that he believes he is above the everyman. Better than the everyman. Superior to the everyman. He is an elitist. He is a narcissist.
All of this pales in comparison to the statements he made directly after the speech to Congress by Prime Minister Allawi.
Mr. Allawi spoke to the American people, via their elected representatives, to affirm and confirm a few things. He wanted, first and foremost, to thank the American people for helping to liberate them from the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. He thanked us for freeing the Iraqi people from a regime that the United Nations – that bastion of principle – allowed to remain in power regardless of the mass graves it produced and the truly illegal wars it waged. His was sincere and everyone who was in the House chamber felt it, accepted it and validated it.
Mr. Allawi then spoke of the commitment that he and his fellow Iraqis have made to bring democracy and a permanent freedom to his country, showcasing the incredible journey that the Iraqi people have taken in so short a time. He described in detail some of the horrors of Hussein’s regime including his own brush with brutality and death at the hands of axe-wielding thugs sent to silence the then exiled patriot courtesy of Saddam Hussein himself. Allawi conveyed that it is precisely because of this past, this history of cruelty, that the Iraqi people hunger for democracy and liberty. Again no one in the chamber doubted the sincerity of Mr. Allawi’s words.
But perhaps the most important element of Mr. Allawi’s speech to the American people was his contention that while our media reports the dire situations in just three regions within his country, the overwhelming majority of Iraqis are thankful for what the Coalition Forces have done and continue to do. He stood before our representatives and told us, straight from Baghdad, that the situation with regard to the terrorist insurgency is not as horrifying as our media is portraying it to be, that the peaceful regions outnumber the hostile regions 15 to 3, and, albeit little by little, that the war against terrorism in his country is being won. Given the exploits of CBS News in recent days it isn’t completely out of the question that Mr. Allawi is correct when he asserts that the media is over-blowing the situation, sensationalizing the actualities and politicizing the events in a few regions to give the illusion that the unrest is nationwide.
So, the question is this, who are we going to believe?
Are we going to believe a man who lives in Baghdad, whose job it is to nurture democracy in a newly freed nation, a man who lives and breathes every element of the Iraqi society, who witnesses firsthand the successes and the setbacks on a day-to-day basis? Or are we going to believe John Kerry and his disingenuous spin-doctors, people who have taken to constant repetition of talking points and non-truths in hopes of capitalizing on propaganda tactics from WWII? I don’t know about you but I have to believe someone who is dedicated to a free and peaceful Iraq over someone who is continuously preaching doom while proposing to handover reconstruction responsibilities to the very international organization who is responsible for allowing Saddam Hussein to remain in power while hundreds of thousands – if not millions – died at his hands.
John Kerry’s assertion that he knows better what’s happening in Iraq than Iraq’s own prime minister is the pinnacle of arrogance. He is an elitist. He is a narcissist. And if this is the way he intends to “court” the international community, if this is his diplomatic style, he would be a miserable failure as President of the United States.
Copyright © 2004 Frank Salvato
Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for TheRant.us. He is a contributing writer to GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials.com, and AmericanDaily.com and his pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications. He can be contacted at oped@therant.us.
If Allawi had made the same speech while a RAT was president, the media would still be swooning.
He's nailed two very wealthy widows. Doesn't that count for anything ;-)
LOL!!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh....that is so right! That guy is GOOD at nabbing rich women! To dems who supported klinton, that surely is a good enough reason to elect him commander in chief of this nation...he knows how to SMOOOOZE.
EVIL.
If you compare the personalities(egos) of the top politicians it gets very interesting!
Dubya - Kerry
V.P.Cheney - Edwards
Hastert - Pelosi
Frist - Dashole
GHWB - Clinton
N/A - McAwful(Impossible to compare)
Laura - Mama-T
Could there be a pattern here.....hmmm
He is an elitist. He is a narcissist.
Nah, he's just a punk jerk who needs to have his ass kicked.
"Even worse, it is reported that afterward, Kerry somehow let Allawi know that if he wins, Iraq will receive the same level of support as they have now."
Sen Joe Biden reported this on fox News Sunday saying he was the messenger sent by Kerry to make this statement.
The worst part is that the arrogance is usually not backed up by anything!!! Liberals are the biggest bunch of liars, jerks, elitists, pills, kill joys, etc.
Second, his remarks about the Iraqi PM were just disgusting. How disrespectful could this man be???
Considering Kerry is (supposedly) being careful in everything he is saying, that is, trying NOT to sound like the arrogant elite he is, I would love to be a fly on the wall when he speaks privately.
I can't even imagine how horrible, power-hungry, pompous, arrogant, insert several of your favourite nasty liberal elite names here, he must REALLY be.
You know the old expression, it takes one to know one. I guess this is why the left does not seem bothered by this attitude of his. It is what they are and don't recognize that there is anything wrong with it.
Yes, and they all need to be herded to the nearest insane asylum. They are the malcontents who would be unhappy if given one million dollars free. They would want one million and one. Send them all to Dafur as human shields for the muzlimbs.
Kerry empowered Joe Biden on the Sunday shows to say this......Biden doing the master's bidding.
LOL! Cartoonists "get it" too!
opprobrious?
A voter expresses displeasure with John Kerry.
I saw Joe Biden on Fox, trying to excuse and re-write Kerry's response. In the process, he completely changed the Iraqi Prime Minister's words and also said he had made conflicting and "more truthful" statements behind the scenes. It was disgusting. There is absolutely nothing that is beyond the Democrats now, including disparaging and lying about our allies to trash Pres. Bush.
How about
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Help! I don't know the definition of that word, and my abridged dictionary doesn't list it. Freepers share info, don't they? LOL
I saw Biden's incredible performance. He also rushed up to Kerry after the latter's speech last week and said, "You did it!" A person is known by the persons surrounding him....Kerry has Biden, Lockhart, Begala, Carville, etc. Get the picture? All dem creeps just panting to get back in power. UGH.
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