Friday, March 12, 2004
Florida? Iffy. France? In the bag, baby.
Remember John Kerry saying that foreign leaders had privately told him they were pulling for him?
OK, he's not going to back that up. Which, I guess, means that if you wanted to conclude that those leaders were Kim Jong-Il, Than Shwe, and Fidel Castro, John Kerry wouldn't tell you you were wrong.
But, let's be serious for a moment. We can reasonably conclude that if Kerry is not in fact lying through his teeth, that he's been encouraged by the likes of Chirac, Schoeder, Martin, and whoever the hell's in charge of Belgium. It would be a P.R. coup if Kerry could claim support from world leaders Bush considers himself close to (Fox, Koizumi, Aznar, Berlusconi, Howard, and other people who don't exist, since Bush is a unilateralist), but Kerry's refusal to name names suggest that people we knew didn't like Bush...don't like Bush.
What I'm wondering is this: Is Kerry aware of any possibility that these leaders, whoever they may be, are actively working to undermine U.S. interests, so that things are going badly for us and Kerry has a better shot? Was it discussed? Should we expect all sorts of foreign policy concessions to start appearing after his inauguration?
Oh, yeah, and should the spectre of that bother anyone? I'm just asking, cause, you know, once upon a time, people who thought a Presidential candidate was conspiring with foreign leaders to undermine his rival was doing a bad thing.
Remember John Kerry saying that foreign leaders had privately told him they were pulling for him?
OK, he's not going to back that up. Which, I guess, means that if you wanted to conclude that those leaders were Kim Jong-Il, Than Shwe, and Fidel Castro, John Kerry wouldn't tell you you were wrong.
But, let's be serious for a moment. We can reasonably conclude that if Kerry is not in fact lying through his teeth, that he's been encouraged by the likes of Chirac, Schoeder, Martin, and whoever the hell's in charge of Belgium. It would be a P.R. coup if Kerry could claim support from world leaders Bush considers himself close to (Fox, Koizumi, Aznar, Berlusconi, Howard, and other people who don't exist, since Bush is a unilateralist), but Kerry's refusal to name names suggest that people we knew didn't like Bush...don't like Bush.
What I'm wondering is this: Is Kerry aware of any possibility that these leaders, whoever they may be, are actively working to undermine U.S. interests, so that things are going badly for us and Kerry has a better shot? Was it discussed? Should we expect all sorts of foreign policy concessions to start appearing after his inauguration?
Oh, yeah, and should the spectre of that bother anyone? I'm just asking, cause, you know, once upon a time, people who thought a Presidential candidate was conspiring with foreign leaders to undermine his rival was doing a bad thing.
