With Eye On 2008, Kerry Goes After Bush
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) barely said hello to the New Hampshire Democrats who filled a banquet room here Friday night before unloading on President Bush….”This war in Iraq is a disgrace,” he said in the second sentence of his speech at a party fundraising dinner. Thirty-two minutes and 14 standing ovations later, the man who lost the 2004 presidential campaign left little doubt that if he runs again in 2008, he intends to be the chief prosecutor of the record of the Bush presidency.
I’m glad that Sen. Kerry finally seems to have found his voice. I can’t help but wonder, though, how many American soldiers (and Iraqi civilians) might be alive today if Kerry had experienced his “come to Jesus” moment during the 2004 Presidential campaign. If I come off as being angry about Kerry’s lack of moral courage in 2004, it’s only because I am. The Democratic Party put forth a Presidential candidate in Kerry who had neither the balls nor the wherewithal to call Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader what he is- a lying murderer more concerned with his own neo-Conservative agenda and his legacy than the lives of those innocent American soldiers who have fallen in defense of his failed policy in Iraq. At this point in time, I consider Kerry complicit in these deaths. How Americans might still be alive if Kerry had just grown a pair?
John Kerry could have made a difference. He could have spoken out with passion and conviction in an effort to convince Americans of the Evil that was being done in their name. He could have used his campaign as a platform to persuade the American sheeple that what was then being (and continues to be) done in Iraq…and that what is being done is WRONG. Kerry blew his opportunity, and while I’m happy that he finally seems to have gotten “religion”, why now? Why two years late? How many people have died because he didn’t have the balls to tell the truth? How many have returned from Iraq, if not in boxes, then maimed and altered for life, whether physically, mentally, or emotionally? And how much of this reality can be laid to Kerry’s seeming inability or outright refusal to campaign in 2004 as if the truth mattered?
“A lie, a lie, a lie and a lie,” he said after recounting Republican claims that Iraq is not in a civil war, that North Korea’s nuclear advancement is former president Bill Clinton’s fault and that Democrats were behind the release of salacious e-mails that Mark Foley sent to former House pages.
It was as if the Kerry of 2006 was channeling the Howard Dean of 2003. “What we have in Washington is a house of lies, and in November, we need to clean house,” he said.
I don’t know the whys or wherefores of why Kerry is now finding his voice and is now FINALLY displaying some passion and anger…and frankly, I don’t care. It’s two years too late for this new-found passion to come off as anything but craven, partisan political pandering and self-interest. John Kerry had his chance. He blew it. And NOW he’s figured out that Iraq really IS a clusterf—k and that Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader is a liar and a murderer?
John Kerry can go f—k himself….
