Kerry's Shifts: Nuanced Ideas or Flip-Flops?

NY Times ^ | March6, 2004 | DAVID M. HALBFINGER

[ApplegateRanch]

Don't try to understand me too much,...

It's too late, Mr. Kerry. I already understand you too much, and too well for your own good.

Another philosopher once said, "No man is an island".

Well, from what I see, that's certainly true for you; a treacherous shoal is more like it.

[goldstategop]

This guy can't even tell you in two words what he believes. And if he does he'll sooner or later emerge with the opposite position! A flip-flopper can be fine in a legislator, who you know is expected to engaged in horsetrading and seek the broadest possible ground with colleagues but its a fatal defect in a Chief Executive. With a President or CEO, one has the right to know his sense of direction and that both friends and foes know exactly where he stands. You get no such reassurance from John F. Kerry.

[goldstategop]

I do not believe they ever taught that one in debating class. Hard to believe but in my day someone like Kerry would have flunked at being able to defend an unpopular position under fire. Let's face it, no one respects or fears the guy cause he has never stood up for his beliefs. That is if he has any people can find he's been known for all his life other than a willingness to do whatever is necessary to keep power.

[Smber]

Ask yourselves this:

Whom do you think that nuts like Bin Laden, Kim Jong Il, Assad, and the Iranian mullahs would like to see elected US President this November? Someone who is taking it to them or Kerry?

[hershey]

Ah, Nuancyboy!

[Phlap]

If "Malaise Foreever" describes the Carter Administration then I shudder to think what might describe a Kerry Admin.

He wants power for powers sake and that makes him far more dengerous than people know. The terrorists and tyrants of the world are pulling for Kerry because they know his reaction to them and their attacks will be like Clintons.

Non-existant!!

[GraceCoolidge]

Throughout his campaign, Mr. Kerry has shown a knack for espousing both sides of divisive issues.... Now with the general-election campaign under way, President Bush and Republicans are already attacking Mr. Kerry for precisely this characteristic.

The author makes it sound like "espousing both sides of divisive issues" (what us dummies might call "lying") is actually a very positive characteristic. And yet again, the mean old Republicans are "attacking" our hero for this very trait. How awful! Isn't it odd how John Kerry can berate President Bush for being so dense that he can't figure out the answer to all these simple issues. They only seem to get complicated when someone asks John Kerry for the answer. Let's just hope the voters finally grasp the truth that John Kerry is full of.... um..... nuance.

[alisasny]

bump

[New Horizon]

Pulling a complete 180 is not a nuanced idea.

[Samwise]

This must be the article you referenced in another thread.

Good grief.

[festus]

ha! another good reason to support genetic mutations ;-)

A two headed kerry !!!!

[Just mythoughts]

The reason why JFKerry flip and flops from one day to the next is his brain has gone to "pot".

He simply cannot remember what he said the day before.

Can there be any other reason why he keeps playing and replaying those films he made in Vietnam, reenacting his gun battles? I am only half joking.

[Reactionary]

Here we go again. Liberal idiot media is about to start parroting the "n-word" to convince everyone that Kerry is a genius (like all liberals, everywhere, all the time).

You see, whenever a fellow liberal doesn't make sense it's merely a matter of him being too deep for the rest of us yokels to understand. When a conservative does the same thing, it's proof that he's a knuckle-dragging moron.

So the idiot liberal media has a job to do. They have to repeat the word "nuanced" approximately four million times to create the impression that Kerry is so intelligent that making the least bit of sense is beneath him.

[hershey]

Indeed, that's the article. You'd think the NYTimes, based in NY, where the World Trade Center was attacked not once, but several times (two planes and that truck bomb), would have a greater sense of self preservation than to alibi for a candidate whose election will insure more deaths in the Big Apple. How many times do they have to get hit before deciding passivity, appeasement, and law enforcement type thinking are suicidal? I don't understand it.

[TASMANIANRED]

"There's indoor John and outdoor John,"

Doesn't matter the location. A pissoir by any other name would still reek.

[neverdem]

How many times do they have to get hit before deciding passivity, appeasement, and law enforcement type thinking are suicidal? I don't understand it.

You don't understand my fellow New Yawkers are so sophisticated they're too dense to appreciate that they're way up there on the top of the target list for shear numbers to kill.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

Election 2004 threads on FR

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This article shows very well why this guys decision style would be an absolute disaster for America and the World in dealing with Terrorists.

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"There's indoor John and outdoor John," said Jonathan Winer, a Washington lawyer and former State Department official who worked for Mr. Kerry from 1983 to 1994.

"Indoor John is thoughtful, works all this through, is nuanced, and so deeply into the process that you can get impatient," Mr. Winer said. "Outdoor John is a man of action. There'd be a point where, Boom! and go. Once it happened, the dialogue was over, and you wouldn't always know which way he was going to go."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!