John Kerry's Roger Mudd Moment

I posted this on Brother Lawrence's Blog, but I figured since I wrote it, that I might just put it up here, too:

At 5:12 PM, Vanessa Beatriz said...

Are these kids on crack or what?
Kerry strikes again. It seems to me that the problem with this guy is not so much the 'flip-flopping' Republicans keep accusing him of, as just not being able to think on his feet. It's clear that what he meant to say was that he felt for the families of all the people who have lost their lives to the war on terror, both on Sept. 11th 2001 and in the two wars and numerous attacks in the Spain, the Middle East, the Far East and so forth. This is not a difficult thing to express, if you're a human, right? But instead, he pulled a veritable George W. Bush (a John Kerry?!) and hedged that the war in Iraq is not part of the war on terror. Well, okay, sure, but that's not going to get his ass elected, is it? Nor was he adressing the issue very well, if that's what he was getting at.

Meanwhile, Asshole George and his evil minionate are performing more creative party tricks with reality, feeding us a line of pro-Iraq War bullshit that seems to go "Capturing Saddam Hussein is a victory in the war on terror, because he is a bad guy." Let's face it, that is the stone cold truth, isn't it, and how can you argue. But that might be because they can't say "we've spent two hundred billion dollars and sacrificed countless lives, and just over one thousand American boys, (Oh, but the war's over. Riiight.) and ignored Kim Jong Il's nukes and turned a blind eye on Iran's WMD program and mind-wiped the name Osama Bin Laden ("mastermind of the only attack ever on the US mainland"!) - or tried - from the public's memory. We are in more danger now than we were on Sept. 10th 2001, but let's not talk about that because, hey, papa needs a coupla more billions."

But isn't that what Kerry was getting at with the comment about "Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time"? Someone has to work on keeping him on-message or he's just going to be a more sensitive, less attractive, and marginally more pricipled GWB. That's not the paddle you need to back you out of shit's creek, and that's the truth.


Meantime, how's this for offensive?:
"That's why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental—supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel."— George W. Bush,
Erie, Pa., Sept. 4, 2004