With Kerry at the top of the ticket, I see a close election, but Kerry losing in the worst possible way imaginable, as would befit a hypocritical liberal whose instincts about Communism and radical Islam have been consistently wrong and..........disturbing for a long time.
Adding any one of the Clintons to the ticket would just make it more entertaining. A referendum on the Clinton years would probably drive voter attendance to record highs.<g>
Take a look at just one of the issues that is going to make Kerry look even dumber and more dishonest than he looks during the actual campaign. But that's really the price you people will pay for electability at all costs.
October 22, 2003, 12:00 p.m.
John Kerry’s North Korean Lie
Blaming Bush for Pyongyang
......Kerry said of this administration's performance in North Korea: "They've handled it miserably. Abysmally. This has been one of the greatest abdications of foreign policy that I've seen in all the years that I've been in the Senate. And it began with a disastrous decision by the president to reverse the decision of Colin Powell to engage the North Koreans and pick up where Secretary Perry and Bill Clinton left off.
"We should have been engaged in bilateral negotiations from the get-go, from the beginning. And it was obvious that when you announce a policy of preemption and you invade another country, and you begin to build bunker-busting nuclear weapons, that Kim Jong Il was going to find a way to get the attention of this administration and he did."
Kerry clearly was creating the impression that North Korea's cheating on the 1994 Agreed Framework came about because of Bush's Iraq policy and the administration's interest in studying — nothing has been built yet — new bunker-busting nukes. The problem with this scenario, as I demonstrate in my new book Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, is that <font color=red>the North Koreans were cheating during the Clinton administration.
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The secret North Korean uranium-enrichment program — to which they confessed in October 2002 — had been in operation since 1997 or 1998. If the North Koreans were cheating in 1998 because they already knew that Bush would be elected and invade Iraq, maybe Kim Jong Il really is the bizarre paranormal being he sometimes seems.
Actually, the North Korean cheating wasn't the least bit surprising. The CIA had thought North Korea wouldn't comply with the agreement all along. "Based on North Korea's past behavior," the CIA reported in 1995, "the [intelligence] community agrees it would dismantle its known program, [only] if it had covertly developed another source of fissile material.........."
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