mystery meat - eeeeek!
While trying to do the right thing, Kerry has always sought to make himself a thinner target. He was for affirmative action, just not this affirmative action. He was for a drug war, just not this drug war. He was for an Iraq war, just not this Iraq war. This is Kerry's nature, and he knows it. He sometimes argues, when pressed about his vote on the war resolution, that most votes in Congress are really "yes, but" or "no, but." In Kerry's case, it's sometimes "yes" and sometimes "no." But it's always "but."
Two days ago on Meet the Press, Tim Russert quoted a critique of Kerry by pollster John Zogby: "He can give you competing arguments on all the major issues and have you walk away and say, 'Yeah, but where does he stand?' " Kerry then illustrated the problem by telling Russert that he had voted for the Iraq war resolution because "I supported the notion that we must as a country hold Saddam Hussein accountable," but "we voted on the basis of information that was given to us, that has since then been proven to be incorrect."
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