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| Kerry's looking for American failure -- and he's it |
| 2004-09-25 |
| Mark Steyn Before John Kerry, the only alumni of Swiss finishing schools I'd ever met (in my younger days) were a certain type of lively English girl, a couple of minor princesses from Gulf emirates and a charming young Iranian lady whose family had been forced to flee after the shah fell. Collectively, they all fell into the category the British call ''posh totty.'' And, although they were way out of my league, the one thing I noticed was their impeccable carriage -- they'd done all the walking-around-with-books-on-your-head stuff -- and how exquisitely well-mannered they were. Even when giving you the brush for being a broke loser, they were very nice about it. In this respect, John Kerry isn't exactly the best advertisement for his Swiss finishing school. Forget the impeccable carriage -- if you imagine you're watching streaming video on a slow dial-up connection, his gait seems perfectly natural. But the manners thing seems to have passed him by entirely. His decision to break the time-honored tradition of keeping out of the way during the other guy's convention by rushing on the air within an hour of President Bush's speech to give an instant response was boorish and petty. But, given that his ''midnight rambler'' routine in Ohio was a disaster, there didn't seem much point dwelling on it. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 "What a small, graceless man Kerry is." Pathetic, inept, traitor,morals deficient...to name a few others. I am awaiting the 1st debate. This may be the 1st alot of people will have seen this junky. I hope he continues in his carping, defeatist, could woulda shoulda one liners. I wouldn't expect less. It will be interesting to see the styles too. One determined with a vision the other waffling through his points. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-09-25 4:14:23 PM |
| #3 The Democratic Party of FDR and Truman is dead. Today's Democratic Party is a cross between the British Labor party and the French Communist Party. In ten years, it will cease to exist, or we will have Civil War II. Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Tom Daschle show what the Democrats have become, and it's bone-deep ugly. I really feel sorry for the 40's-era Democrats, because their party has deserted them. Expect a schism, followed by a new political party to the right of the existing Democrats, while the existing Democrats shrink into worse insignificance than the party of Lyndon LaRouche. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-09-25 3:56:18 PM |
| #2 "Democrats and media alike -- are stunted and parochial, their horizons shriveling more every day." Like U.N. bureaucrats, their affluence blinds them to the ugly realities of human behavior and the risks of sitting fat, dumb, and happy at the top of the heap. [Of course Kerry gets most of his affluence by marriage, so he's into entangled alliances and the sharing of good fortune.] Their level of lies and deceit is so high that they can't even imagine that their opposition might have reasonable values. Contrast Clinton in the back hall of the Oval Office with his pants down after the World Trade Center bombing to George Bush taking down the Taliban and Saddam. And compare Kerry making re-enactment movies in Vietnam to Michael Moore filming his fantasies -- each indulging in distorting the truth so as to influence the ignorant toward their own fabricated delusional realities. The Democratic Party has gone off the deep end. If Kerry is the best they can do, they are a sorry, sorry lot indeed. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-09-25 11:40:58 AM |
| #1 In two weeks Kerry has gone from being for the war to against the war to on the other side. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-09-25 11:33:29 AM |