The Democratic Party has come unhinged.
Hugh Hewitt
Yesterday a gathering of liberal activists cheered George Soros' assertion that the prison abuse scandal was the equivalent of the attacks of 9/11, and that the war in Iraq had turned the United States into the the equivalent of the perpetrators of those attacks.
Byron York of National Review broke the story, which was carried but buried in this morning's Boston Globe, but ignored in the account of the gathering that appeared in the Washington Post. No story on the meeting appeared in the New York Times. Thus do the bigs provide cover for the loons at the heart of Kerry's party. The Washington Times has the most complete account, including an excerpt of Senator Clinton's effusive welcome of the slanderer of the American military and people.
The New York Times does carry an account of Kerry's attempt to cast himself as a credible Commander-in-Chief. Kerry's two decades of foolishness on Vietnam, the Sandinistas, the Soviet Union, most major weapons systems, intelligence funding, and now the war in Iraq present hurdles he can never overcome, but at least Soros' remarks present him with an opportunity to try.
Kerry cannot lead a military that his party believes to be the moral equivalent of the 9/11 terrorists. Although Hillary Clinton introduced Soros, there is no report whether she applauded his insanity along with the crowd. But even silence after such a slander is an endorsement. Where's Kerry?
Al Gore's screams and Ted Kennedy's characterization of Saddam's torture chambers as "under new management, U.S. management," are not aberrations. They are the norm of the leadership of the party that Kerry leads. When Kerry does not condemn such fevers, he endorses them. This is why he is Mr. Implausibility. A party that hates America so much that it cannot see the difference between the 9/11 terrorists and the liberators of Iraq cannot lead a nation in war. It could only hope to lead a nation in surrender.
George Soros needs a subscription to National Geographic. I repeat the money quote from the story in the magazine's new issue that I linked to yesterday, "Reaching for Power: The Shiites of Iraq":<font color=blue>
"By mid-January of 2004, 270 mass graves had been reported. The Free Prisoners Society estimates that five to seven million people 'disappeared' in the past two decades, the majority of them Shiites."<font color=black>
The Democratic Party is not just whistling past the graveyard, it is whistling past hundreds of graveyards full of millions of bodies. And it is refusing to read e-mails from the front lines like that of Major Bellon's that I posted yesterday. Instead it is cheering George Soros while its candidate postures as a would-be leader of the free world, even as he refuses to lead his party away from the lunacy in its core.
A task he cannot undertake because for the thirty-plus years since he returned from Vietnam, John Kerry has believed that lunacy in his bones, spoken it in nearly every speech, endorsed it with nearly every vote except those he has recently repudiated.
On the 60th anniversary of D-Day, voters cannot help but ask what FDR would think of Kerry and Soros, Kennedy and Hillary. Not much, I am certain. Not much at all.
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