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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (551134)	3/12/2004 12:22:18 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

John Live Shot Flip-flop Kerry... His waffles are well documented for all to see...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (551134)	3/12/2004 12:22:43 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Mind of John Kerry America needs a Prince Hal. He's a Hamlet. BY DANIEL HENNINGER Friday, March 12, 2004 12:01 a.m. In a perfect world, we would pause here to ponder the implications of the photos sent this week by the Hubble Space Telescope from the Ultra Deep Field of the universe--real photos of light that began its journey 13 billion years ago, when the universe was so young and full of possibility. But we inhabit an imperfect world, and so a consensus would hold it more in our short-term interest to examine another mysterious complexity, the matter of John Kerry's flip-flops, a subject that might also be called the Ultra Deep Field. But let's not make light of the matter. The better course is to put the best face possible on John Kerry's habits of mutability and place that face inside the Oval Office, to see whether it looks like it fits. In the New York Times last weekend, Mr. Kerry's friends did just that. Jonathan Winer, a Washington lawyer and former Kerry aide, said: "There's indoor John and outdoor John. Indoor John is thoughtful, works all this through, is nuanced, and so deeply into the process that you can get impatient. Outdoor John is a man of action. There'd be a point where, Boom! and go. Once it happened, the dialogue was over, and you wouldn't always know which way he was going to go." Should either man, Indoor John or Outdoor John, be president of the United States? John Kerry entered the U.S. Senate in 1985, and for 18 years built the record that is now the basis for calling him either complex and nuanced or inconsistent and opportunistic. Most famously, Mr. Kerry voted for the Iraq war resolution, but criticizes nearly every action Mr. Bush has taken on Iraq. He voted for the Patriot Act but says John Ashcroft is "abusing" it. There is a long list of similarly nuanced positions (a word Mr. Kerry rejects).