Nameless Foreigners for Kerry
John Kerry is touting his putative endorsement by people who can't even vote in American elections. "I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, 'You've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy,' things like that," Reuters quotes him as saying in Hollywood, Fla.
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So who are these unnamed leaders? Well, we already know that North Korea's Kim Jong Il is plumping for Kerry. Another possibility is Yasser Arafat, whom Kerry described as a "statesman" and a "role model" in his 1997 book, "The New War," according to the New York Post.
What about Jean Bertrand-Aristide, Haiti's ousted dictator? Kerry tells the New York Times he would have intervened to keep Aristide in power, so it seems likely old JBA is a Kerry backer. Aristide is gone, of course, but the Associated Press reports that he "declared from African exile Monday that he was still president of Haiti." Presumably that means he can still issue endorsements in the American presidential race.
Meanwhile, Fox News reports "Iraq's Governing Council signed a landmark interim constitution on Monday, creating a 13-article bill of rights, setting up an outline for the parliament and presidency and enshrining Islam as one of the bases of law." Here's a summary of the new constitution, and here's the full text.
Saddam Hussein is incommunicado at the moment, but we wonder whom he'd endorse in the U.S. presidential race. |
