Hugh Hewitt blows up - One of the strongest words I use is "fool," reserved for people who are genuinely lost in some absurd vision of the way the world works that is disconnected from reality. If you take John Kerry at his word, he's a fool. America cannot afford a fool as president.
The train-wreck that is John Kerry's campaign continues to fascinate professionals within the political world. Last night's MTV disaster was another premeditated assault by Kerry on Kerry. Satirists have been focusing on Kerry's new appreciation of rap, but the crucial exchange was this one:
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Question: "In the clearest terms what would be the principal difference between the foreign policy of your administration and that of the Bush administration?"
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Kerry: "Ah, hah, the principal difference will be almost everything. This administration has been arrogant. I think they've been reckless. They have been overly ideological, they've pushed our allies away. I will bring our allies back to us.... He turned his back on global warming, walked away from a treaty that a hundred and sixty nations worked ten years on. We should never have declared it dead. We should have tried to fix it. We haven't done what we need to do for AIDs, globally. The president talks about it but we still haven't passed the kind of comprehensive program that would help the United States lead on the one the great crises of our time. We haven't done what we need to do for loose nuclear material in Russia, where we ought to be gaining the security of that material so it can't fall into the hands of terrorists. I mean there are countless numbers of things that we could be doing to enhance the world's view of us, and to minimize the kind of anger and, and, aaah, an almost recruitment that's taken place in terrorist organizations as a result of the way the administration has behaved."
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Had Kerry only embraced the Kyoto Treaty, the answer would still be among the most disastrous a modern candidate has uttered. But it is the closing riff that assaults common sense and decency. Kerry is blaming the U.S. for terrorists becoming terrorists. This will not sit well with America, for it is the return of Vietnam Veterans Against the War Kerry --blaming America for the atrocities of the communists-- and the return of the Blame America First Democrats of the 1980s, who believed the Cold War was fueled not by Soviet expansionism, but by American greed and power lust. Now Kerry ups the ante and blames --what, 9/11?-- on the United States policies producing anger and the recruitment that follows anger. Had the MTV host been awake, he might have asked, "Mr. Kerry, what then produced Atta and his 18 murderers?" It would have been hard to blame Atta on Bush, but Kerry is so blinded by venom and so upside-down in his thinking that he might have tried.
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John Kerry: Pro-Kyoto and an apologist for terrorists.
Yeah, America will like that. |
