I'm trying to convince myself that John Kerry is not really an idiot. I'm failing badly. If there's evidence of a functioning synapse somewhere in his head, I'm just missing it. I say this because of the bizarre political step he's taken in his perpetual quest to move into the White House. Kerry has started a web diary at Daily Kos.
Venom has a way of filtering down and collecting at Daily Kos. Most notably was the Kos reaction to pictures of charred American bodies dangling from the bridge in Fallujah, Iraq.
Let the people see what war is like. This isn't an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush's folly.
That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.
Yes, "screw them," said Kos. But then he took back his words, explaining that he'd forgotten for the moment that he was an enlightened humanitarian at heart and assuring everyone that he'd remembered himself. So now John Kerry has joined the enlightened and compassionate Kos, and in his very first post Kerry leaps to the defense of the little guy:
There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.
Maybe "little guy" is a poor choice of words. Kerry was talking about war protester Michael Moore and deploring Chris Matthews' comparison of Osama bin Laden's message to the rhetoric of Michael Moore:
This is from bin Laden in the audio today. “There is no defect in the solution other than preventing the flow of hundreds of billions to the influential people and war merchants in America.” I mean, he sounds like an over-the-top Michael Moore here, if not a Michael Moore. Do you think that sells in America, that this war is being fought for the Daddy Warbucks?
I can't say I'm outraged, and when you get down to it, Kerry isn't either. No, the outrage reverberating through the echo chamber atop Kerry's shoulders is not the Moore/bin Laden comparision, even though he did take the time to misrepresent it as a comparison of the men rather than their messages.
That's reason to be outraged - but even more outrageous is the fact that in a flurry of sound bites what was lost was a real discussion of the fact that more than four years after the devastating attacks of 9/11, more than four years after George Bush boasted we wanted Osama "dead or alive," more than a year after Osama Bin Laden showed his hateful face in yet another video, this barbarian is still very much alive and boasting of additional attacks against the United States.
Kerry's real outrage is that Osama bin Laden is still alive. But who knew? We haven't heard from the guy in over a year, and suddenly he puts out a tape saying he wants a truce. This is cause for outrage? Kerry says he's outraged over bin Laden's "boasting of additional attacks against the United States." I'd be outraged too, if bin Laden had some attacks he could brag about, but there weren't any. It's true that we must take all of bin Laden's threats seriously. But we ought to expect a Senator to be able to recognize the difference between a boast and an empty threat, even if he is a Democrat.
Kerry's real stupidity is aligning himself with Kos, and thinking he'll still be able to regain the center in time for 2008. He's still carrying around that same old playbook. Campaign hard to the left through the Democratic primaries, then climb back into his old Navy uniform for the general election. But he's with Kos now, and he'll never make it back to the middle.
And that's a good thing because Kerry has really never been anywhere near the middle philosophically. If he were ever to get into the White House he would revert to the old Democratic playbook for governing, which means he would convert the War on Terror into a law enforcement issue, and base his foreign policy decisions on his perception of the prevailing sentiment over at the U.N. So, it's a measure of comfort that the presidency appears to be beyond his reach. He is after all, still a moron.
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