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To: LindyBill who wrote (59450)	8/11/2004 4:42:46 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793840

The Kerry Problem: Power Trumps Knowledge Blogs for Bush Thomas Sowell, in my view one of the very smartest people alive today (just finished reading his Conquests and Culture; highly recommend it), has this excellent way of grasping the central issue. We've all been rather agog at the behaviour of the Kerry's for the past few months - from their inability to accept blame for their own mistakes, to their paranoid ravings about what is going on in the United states, we have been treated to two people who can't really take themselves at all seriously, but they do. Mr. Sowell explains it for us: "Despite clever and hard-working political handlers who have done a masterful job of concealing and distracting attention from John Kerry's voting record in his long Senate career, and the liberal vision behind that record, glimmers of reality still break through now and then. Senator Kerry himself has said that he was for spending more money on education with "no questions asked." The teachers' unions no doubt loved hearing that, but blank checks are precisely how our schools have produced the most expensive incompetence in the world. Then there was another glimmer of reality breaking through recently, courtesy of wife Teresa Heinz Kerry. While her husband was addressing some midwestern farmers, Teresa passed a note to him, which led him to ask her to address the group. Her message? Organic hog farming is "economical" and there is "a huge market" for it. A hog farmer in the audience was immediately on his feet, objecting. That this sheltered rich woman from Boston would have the nerve to try to tell hog farmers how to raise hogs is a classic example of the liberal vision. What is liberalism all about? Regardless of whether the particular issue is race, agriculture, housing, or a thousand other things, liberalism is about the government telling people what to do in their lives and work. Most of the liberals who are for ordering other people around know as little as Teresa Heinz Kerry. But they don't have to know. It has been said that knowledge is power but, politically, power trumps knowledge." Here we have John Kerry and Teresa Kerry; with their Senatorial perks and with the rarified atmosphere which comes when you've got a billion dollars at your disposal - they feel themselves as people with power. After all, when a Senator calls, you pay attention - and when a billionaire comes into your store, you tremble. They are used to getting their way and not being contradicted; they are power-mad people, and this power has entirely trumped knowledge in their lives. They don't care, you see, what you and I think - we're not powerful; we don't have a seat in the Senate, nor a billion dollars to throw around. Lacking power, whatever knowledge we have is not just unimportant, but downright offensive to the Kerry's. They look at us little proles who disagree and propose to vote for President Bush and they don't see people with different experiences who prefer an alternative political view but, instead, they see powerless scoundrels who don't know how to conduct themselves around their betters. We'll give them their comeuppance on November 2nd - just as, long ago, we gave Jimmy Carter his walking papers. And just like Carter, I'll bet the Kerry's never, ever forgive us for not giving them what they feel is their due. I guess we'll just have to live with that. Won't we? blogsforbush.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (59450)	8/15/2004 7:39:44 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793840

<font color=blue>"I don't think Kerry can get away with letting this stand. It is just to damning. He has to discredit and sue these people or he is done."<font color=black> RE: Swift Boat issue..... I'm not so sure LB. Look at how the Sandy Berger trousergate scandal never really got off the ground & seems to now be a complete non-issue as far as any media coverage. And that is but one relevant example of how the media can continue to spike this story &/or play it like a right wing smear job until it dies. P.S. Sorry I'm so far behind & this may have been covered already. I'm recovering from surgery on a ruptured patella tendon, plus two torn ligaments in my ankle.