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Hitchens: Taking the Measure of John Kerry (ht to Powerline)

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Posted by Frank G 2004-08-14 09:32|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 link to Powerline's take on it

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-14 9:33:06 AM|| 2004-08-14 9:33:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 My favorite lines?
The Boston Globe writers capture a moment of sheer, abject incoherence, at a Democratic candidates' debate in Baltimore last September:

''If we hadn't voted the way we voted, we would not have been able to have a chance of going to the United Nations and stopping the president, in effect, who already had the votes and who was obviously asking serious questions about whether or not the Congress was going to be there to enforce the effort to create a threat.''

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-14 9:47:49 AM|| 2004-08-14 9:47:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The notion of Kerry using his Vietnam War record as the entire basis for his presidential campaign-- while trying to shove both his VVAW activities and his 19 years in the Senate down the "Memory Hole"-- is just mind-boggling.

Why is he being allowed to do this? It's almost as if his own campaign staff, and the Democratic National Committee, are deliberately giving him bad advice and setting him up for a fall.

Maybe they are.

A Kerry win this fall will doom Hillary Clinton's chances of ever being elected president. If Kerry turns out to be a popular, effective president (yeah, yeah, I know; I'm just being theoretical) then he'd be re-elected in 2008, meaning Hillary won't get her shot at the prize until 2012. But if Kerry turns out to be as much of a one-term loser as I expect he would-- much, MUCH worse than even Jimmy Carter-- then no Democrat, not even Hillary, will be electable as president for another generation.

I'm starting to wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership will allow Kerry to win. My bet is, they won't.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-08-14 11:52:43 AM|| 2004-08-14 11:52:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Besides, Ms. Hillary never fought in Viet Nam.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-14 12:41:07 PM|| 2004-08-14 12:41:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "We are looking at a man who would make, or would have made, a perfectly decent peacetime president."

That is the best description I've heard of Kerry, or his Party for that matter.

Posted by Pappy 2004-08-14 11:03:03 PM|| 2004-08-14 11:03:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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