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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Yousef who wrote (201489)9/11/2004 3:59:40 PM
From: Yousef   of 1574056
 
"Taking Flip-Flops Seriously (continued)"

"THE JOHN KERRY "flip-flop" has been a humorous leitmotif of this campaign.
But we single out these particular reversals because they are too important to
be merely funny or to be chalked up simply to an inability of the Kerry campaign
to "hone" its "message." Nor is the real problem simply Kerry's inability to make
up his mind. Rather it is that on fundamental matters of war and peace, and on
the major strategic and tactical questions that follow from them--such as how
many troops to send and how much money to commit to a conflict--John Kerry will not
or cannot hold to a position under pressure.

Kerry voted to authorize war in Iraq in the fall of 2002 because he was afraid
a vote against the resolution would ruin his chances to become president. He voted
against the $87 billion to support the forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in the
fall of 2003--when Howard Dean was riding high-- because he was afraid that he
couldn't win over Democratic primary voters if he seemed to be supporting the
war. After the capture of Saddam Hussein, Kerry briefly returned to a hawkish stance
and criticized Dean when it seemed that distinguishing himself from Dean's excessive
dovishness would be politically beneficial. Now, after a dip in the polls against
President Bush, Kerry has come out against the war and against the money spent
on the war, because he is afraid that he cannot win running as a quasi-hawk. We
understand that many people don't like President Bush. But can there be anyone
out there, Democrat or Republican, who does not honestly worry: If this is how
John Kerry behaves during the campaign, how would he react to the real pressures
of being president and commander in chief?"

Make It So,
yousef
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