Only his auto dealer knows for sure.
Kerry’s SUV flip flopping gets worse than denying that he’s part of his own family. He apparently told a New Hampshire audience that he sold them all, when he didn’t. This wasn’t nuance, or Clintonizing. It was a lie (and that’s not a word I use lightly).
Only his auto dealer knows for sure.
Kerry’s SUV flip flopping gets worse than denying that he’s part of his own family. He apparently told a New Hampshire audience that he sold them all, when he didn’t. This wasn’t nuance, or Clintonizing. It was a lie (and that’s not a word I use lightly).
Mark Steyn has finally figured out why Kerry seems like he flip flops. It’s all an illusion:
When Kerry talks about ”any Benedict Arnold CEO or corporation that takes American jobs overseas,” he’s not referring to someone who ”takes jobs overseas.” Perish the thought! He’s all in favor of taking jobs overseas. It wasn’t him who attacked all those ”Benedict Arnold CEOs,” just his ”overzealous speechwriters.” And the minute he discovered it was going on, he called them to say, ”Look, that’s not what I’m saying.”
I mean, OK, it was what he was saying in the narrow technical sense of words emerging from between his lips, day after day, night after night, all through primary season. I had a quick rummage through the Nexis database, and found a mere 746 citations for Kerry and the expression ”Benedict Arnold.” I myself have personally been present on three occasions when he attacked ”Benedict Arnold CEOs” who ”take jobs overseas,” and on two of them he didn’t have a TelePrompTer or even a script. He just stood in front of us and the words came out of his mouth, almost as if they were what he himself believed…
…Well, it’s good to know the senator has finally found a way to neutralize the flip-flop question. Many of us assumed that, when he was for the war and then he was against it and then he was for it again, that he kept changing his mind. But now it’s possible he was just being entirely consistent — he’s always been for it, or against it, it’s just that his ”overzealous speechwriters” kept putting the wrong words in his mouth.
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Jay Manifold has a post about a mindless desecration in Pennsylvania, based on an email I forwarded him from Jim Oberg.
Iowahawk has the scoop on the salutory effect that the president’s “apology” has had on the world. Well, at least on some bizarro world.
The apology also prompted an outbreak of gratitude in the Arab street, as hundreds of thousands of Muslims took to the streets Friday in an impromptu demonstration of thanks. In Gaza, a cheering crowd estimated at 30,000 waved American flags and banners reading “No Prablem Bosh” [sic], while in Damascus throngs gathered in the Square of the Martyrs chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”.
“I used to dream about dying in a glorious fireball of martyrdom,” said Ali Ahmed Amoud, 23, a marcher in the first annual Infidel Appreciation Days parade in Nablus. “But that apology was so nice and sincere, it just seems kind of petty to keep nursing a grudge.”
Avoid liquids while reading, as usual.
Iowahawk has the scoop on the salutory effect that the president’s “apology” has had on the world. Well, at least on some bizarro world.
The apology also prompted an outbreak of gratitude in the Arab street, as hundreds of thousands of Muslims took to the streets Friday in an impromptu demonstration of thanks. In Gaza, a cheering crowd estimated at 30,000 waved American flags and banners reading “No Prablem Bosh” [sic], while in Damascus throngs gathered in the Square of the Martyrs chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”.
“I used to dream about dying in a glorious fireball of martyrdom,” said Ali Ahmed Amoud, 23, a marcher in the first annual Infidel Appreciation Days parade in Nablus. “But that apology was so nice and sincere, it just seems kind of petty to keep nursing a grudge.”
Avoid liquids while reading, as usual.
Iowahawk has the scoop on the salutory effect that the president’s “apology” has had on the world. Well, at least on some bizarro world.
The apology also prompted an outbreak of gratitude in the Arab street, as hundreds of thousands of Muslims took to the streets Friday in an impromptu demonstration of thanks. In Gaza, a cheering crowd estimated at 30,000 waved American flags and banners reading “No Prablem Bosh” [sic], while in Damascus throngs gathered in the Square of the Martyrs chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”.
“I used to dream about dying in a glorious fireball of martyrdom,” said Ali Ahmed Amoud, 23, a marcher in the first annual Infidel Appreciation Days parade in Nablus. “But that apology was so nice and sincere, it just seems kind of petty to keep nursing a grudge.”
Avoid liquids while reading, as usual.
Wretchard has a sobering post about what we should be trying to avoid, and what many of the ringmasters in the ongoing circus in Washington may be, unwittingly, leading us to.
While it is important to punish everyone responsible for the outrages at Abu Ghraib, the only effective way to stop the corrupting influences of war is to achieve victory. Japanese tourists are welcome in Asia everywhere today because the Second World War ended in 1945. And if by contrast Palestinians hand out sweets whenever a Jewish orphanage and Old Folk’s home is bombed it may be because the UN refugee camps there celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1998. If the outrages at Abu Ghraib hasten the end of war it will not have been in vain, but if they lead, as the Left most earnestly desires, to a Vietnam-like stalemate, it will be not the last but the first of many sad mileposts.
[Warning, graphic descriptions of violence]
Omar at Iraq The Model posts an interesting conversation with an Iraqi doctor about Abu Ghraib.
There are other interesting posts there about Iraqi and Middle Eastern reaction as well.
Of the people baying for Don Rumsfeld’s head now, I’ll take the ones seriously who were demanding the same of Janet Reno in 1993 after Waco.
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