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To: Lazarus_Long who started this subject	9/10/2004 9:46:01 AM
From: Oeconomicus	of 90947

Some great editorializing from the WSJ today: Europe's Choice September 10, 2004; Page A12 Speaking of John Kerry, our friends at the Financial Times splashed the news across their front page yesterday that "Global poll favours Kerry over Bush." It seems a recent survey of 35 countries reveals that the world's voters would cast their ballot for the Democrat over the Texas "cowboy" by about 2 to 1. None of these non-Americans get a vote in November, mind you, but we can appreciate the FT's Euro-frustration. We read deeper into the same story, however, and discovered why Senator Kerry probably won't be touting his global landslide on the stump in Des Moines. It turns out that another survey, this one taken by the Marshall Fund in June, found that 58% of Europeans consider "strong U.S. leadership to be undesirable." Leave aside the fact that Europe seems to prefer "strong U.S. leadership" when the Marines are storming Normandy or imposing a peace that Europeans failed to achieve in the Balkans. More significant for the current moment is that these polls show that the same Europeans who overwhelmingly favor the election of John Kerry also favor a weaker America. We'll let our readers decide what that says about the two American candidates. online.wsj.com And this excerpt: Kerry vs. Kerry September 10, 2004; Page A12 John Kerry could well be our next President, which is why we keep looking for signs that he'd be a good one, especially on national defense. Even a hint of Harry Truman would make us sleep better. But the more he talks about Iraq, the more the Senator seems bent on proving that his critics are right: He really is in a Presidential debate with himself. ... We're not the only ones who've noticed that Mr. Kerry's statements on Iraq aren't so much "nuanced" as simply irreconcilable. Just yesterday the New York Times implored him to stake out a clear position on the war. And the liberal and anti-Bush New Republic magazine recently observed that on Iraq Mr. Kerry has gone from "inscrutable" to "indefensible." online.wsj.com

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