The Ugly American (John Kerry)

RealClearPolitics ^ | Februrary 1, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

[potlatch]

Ha! Maybe so.

[OESY]

Kerry playing to his base

I know it's tiresome, but sometimes we must contemplate John Kerry. Now that he's recognized that there is no possible way he could ever get the Democratic nomination in 2008, he's free to travel the world and let us know what he really thinks. And what he thinks displays the lies that he tells himself and now the world. He was criticizing the United States under Bush for not signing on to the Kyoto Treaty and not doing enough to fight AIDS. What he was forgetting was that he was one of the 95 senators who voted 95 to 0 in a 1997 resolution to tell President Clinton not to even think of sending the Senate an environmental treaty that called for huge costs to the American economy while exempting countries like China and India and other developing countries from its protocols. And he forgets that President Bush has been spending triple what President Clinton spent to fight AIDS in Africa and other countries. These facts are inconvenient because they interfere with the whole storyline that George W. Bush is responsible for everything bad that anyone around the world thinks of the United States.

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Kerry doesn't seem to be bothered at all by how his words will be perceived by his fellow citizens. In Massachusetts they might not mind that he travels abroad and misleads about his own country. And his audience in Davos was probably suitably impressed with the wisdom Kerry showed by hanging with Khatami and bashing Bush. After all, that crowd there is Kerry's true base of support.

Source: http://haloscan.com/tb/betsynewmark/117034225079131769

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[foreshadowed at waco]

I'll never forget when Kerry was running in 2003--he kept calling Vietnam Nixon's war--and I decided then and there that he was still the same dirtbag Kerry who denounced his own comrades--what a weasel...thank God he's not running...I'd be so ashamed if someone like him won the Presidency...he has no honor.