The confirmed Democrat nominee for president gave his acceptance speech last night, painting himself as the second coming of General "Blood and Guts" Patton. Relatively speaking, at least, compared to his position during the primaries.
But one sentence John spoke drew my attention more than all the rest. Criticizing the President for actually making good on our threat to Saddam, he said, "Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn't make it so," and he is correct. Conversely, saying there were not WMD in Iraq pre-invasion doesn't make it so either. But the importance of Kerry's words goes deeper than this.
This one sentence, by itself, derails the entire anti-Bush Democrat campaign, at least on the basis of logic and reason. By uttering it, John 1 has admitted that we live in a finite world with a single, definite and universal reality. But this fact does not comport with the remainder of his candidacy.
Saying that John Kerry is a hawk, doesn't make it so.
Saying that al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and North Korea are not a threat to America until they actually kill more of our citizens doesn't make it so.
Saying that holding out for UN consensus, or the cooperation of a certain group of other nations, before taking military action does not grant a de-facto veto to those institutions doesn't make it so.
And certainly, saying that he can cut middle-class taxes, establish universal health care, fund thousands and thousands of new police, firefighters, soldiers and the latest in state-of-the-art equipment for every one of them, new and old, create "Marshall Plans" for Iraq and Afghanistan (just for starters), balance the federal budget and "pay as you go," all by simply raising taxes on the "wealthiest Americans making $200,000 or more" doesn't make it so. Or right, for that matter.
Posted by JohnGalt at July 30, 2004 09:28 AMI'll put you down as a 'no" then...
Good post and you are right. It was all lies all the time. One of my favorites was "families won't have to raise money to buy body armor for their sons in combat." Well, maybe if you and Senator Sunshine had voted for the $87 Billion to fund the troops...
And how about the close? If I may paraphrase: "You are a lying, scumsucking weasel, Mr. President. You sent our troops off to die on a lie for no good reason, with no plan, and you ruined the domestic economy and environment and run a fascist unconstitutional regime! But from here out, let's play nicey-nicey and not say a bad word about me..."
I am accused by the philosophers around here of always looking at the politics. And it might be hard for the GOP to derail some of the politics. No, his numbers don't add up, but he'll claim that with "ending corporate welfare" they will.
And they might. But short of scrapping the tax code or desisting with elections for Congress, it ain't gonna happen -- we can't get rid of the mohair subsidy!
And every foreign policy critique (catch the lead ed in the WSJ today) will be rebutted with "He served in Vietnam? How can you question his patriotism?"
And the big media will be pliant. And I don't think the "swingin' undecideds" read blogs.
A tough 96 days...
I'm gonna be remembering these all day...
OH! And how about "ending our dependence on Saudi Arabian Oil!" Presumably, without drilling on ANWR, or building any refineries...using only union labor...preserving and expanding all environmental regulations...not outsourcing any jobs or research...tax incentives, but no corporate welfare...
Magic Fairy Dust?
Posted by: jk at July 30, 2004 11:26 AMSo the duaghter says to me, "daddy do all fairy tales start with 'once upon a time?'" "No darlin'," says I, " a lot of them start with 'when I'm elected president'."
Posted by: sugarchuck at July 30, 2004 08:58 PMhahahahahahahaha -- well said, Sugarchuck!
Posted by: jk at July 31, 2004 10:36 AM