John Kerry: Intellectual Dwarf, Political Whore

Lest we forget, John Kerry reminds us that he is still a nut.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D- Mass., who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.

"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor.

Bush has been so concentrated on the war in Iraq that other Middle East tension arose as a result, he said.

"The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East," Kerry said. "We're going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it."

How can anyone take this man seriously? I'm not a fan of Bush, but anyone who would willfully state something so idiotic couldn't be much better at being president. The reason that there is conflict in the Middle East has nothing to do with whoever runs the plutocracy.

So what would Kerry do differently? Being a politician, he's short on details--also intelligence and character--but he did let this bit of wisdom slip.

"This is about American security and Bush has failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in going into Iraq.…We have to destroy Hezbollah," he said.

I think this is fairly important. First, Kerry is catering to the base by mentioning that the Iraq War was a mistake. Since this Yalie is loaded, he has a shot at gaining the nomination in '08. Unfortunately for him, he's a fool. Destorying Hezbollah, like destorying Al-Qaeda will not mollify the situation in the Middle East. One does not treat a disease by removing the symtoms but by removing the causes.

Further, and most importantly, destroying Hezbollah will require an interventionist policy. Next time a good little Democrat tells you that their party wouldn't have gone to Iraq, mention WWI,WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo--I'm missing some--and then bring up Kerry's little slip. After all, they voted for the dolt.

All of this is much ado about nothing so long as one realizes that there are no significant idealogical differences between the ostensible right and left. I'm half-hoping the dems give Kerry the nod; sure I will have been wrong--big surpise, that--about Hillary, but it will be entertaining.

The way things stand, I'm pretty much in it for the laughs.