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larrygj
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 Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject: Steyn skewers Kerry's incoherence |
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As usual, Mark Steyn hits the bull's-eye in his latest at http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn03.html
| Quote: | ...Saddam was a growing threat so he had to be disarmed so Kerry voted for war in order to authorize Bush to go to the U.N. but Bush failed to pass ''the global test'' so we shouldn't have disarmed Saddam because he wasn't a threat so the war was a mistake so Kerry will bring the troops home by persuading France and Germany to send their troops instead because he's so much better at building alliances so he'll have no trouble talking France and Germany into sending their boys to be the last men to die for Bush's mistake.
Have I got that right?
Oh, and he'll call a summit. ''I have a plan to have a summit. . . . I'm going to hold that summit ... we can be successful in Iraq with a summit . . . the kind of statesman-like summits that pull people together ...'' Summit old, summit new, summit borrowed, summit blue, he's got summit for everyone. Summit-chanted evening, you may see a stranger, you may see a stranger across a crowded room. But, in John Kerry's world, there are no strangers, just EU deputy defense ministers who haven't yet contributed 10,000 troops because they haven't been invited to a summit. |
It's amazing how Kerry keeps repackaging himself in the hopes that people won't notice or remember his prior inconsistencies, and that the media will help with his shell games. He's wrong on the former but unfortunately right on the latter. |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a d___ good article! Be sure to read the whole thing. |
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rb325th
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The last two paragraphs of that Editorial absolutely hammer home the fact about Kerry and all the supposed "experts" who credit him with a win the other night. (same link as above)
| Quote: | Speaking as a third-rate hack, I'd say that as a general rule articulacy is greatly over-rated. It's not what it's about: Noel Coward would run rings round Mike Tyson in the prematch press conference, but then what? But, if articulacy is the measure, how come Kerry can't articulate an Iraq policy any of us can understand? By contrast, for an inarticulate man, Bush seems to communicate pretty clearly. He communicates the reality of the post-9/11 world, a world where you can't afford to err on the side of multilateral consensus and Hague-approved legalisms and transatlantic chit-chatting and tentativeness and faintheartedness about the projection of American power in America's interest.
A majority of the American people -- albeit not as big a majority as it ought to be -- get this. John Kerry still does not. Which means he lost the debate. He got a technical win on points from the pundits, but this election won't be won on points. It's primal. The pundits keep missing this. They thought Kerry was good in the debate, just as he was good in his convention speech, because on both occasions he was tactically artful. But that's not going to cut it. We're post-Clinton: you can't triangulate your way to victory. |
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