Mark Steyn: Kerry's got a strategy: it's summit for everyone

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 10/03/04 | Mark Steyn

[annyokie]

FR was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay slow this morning, too. At least I got all my weeding done. ; )

I am looking forward to him kicking butt in the next two. Oh! and Cheney waxing the floor with Edwards on Tuesday.

[netmilsmom]

We got all the winter clothes that don't fit to Salvation Army, bought new church dresses and packed the summer clothes.
Daddy went to a Simply Music seminar to see if we will sign the girls up for it.
We had Chinese for dinner and I settled into the "Free Dominion" FReeper guestroom and met Backhoe there! I guess FR is going down again tonight. It's pretty cool being with the Conservative Canadians, eh!

[dufekin]

Kerry does have a clear position on Iraq. It's just that the rest of us are so clouded by our pro-American stance that we refuse to engage in the mental gymnastics necessary to comprehend it. Kerry, as nearly as I can tell, is for the war but against the troops. He believes that we're fighting on the wrong side. Bush is too stupid to plan for war, so our troops must be at fault for entering the war on the wrong side. We should ally ourselves with the terrorists. Remember the courageous patriotism of Benedict Arnold at West Point, New York?

[maica]

President Bush was tired and annoyed, but after 90 minutes of his answering slanted questions, the best the Dems could take away were screen caps of his facial expressions. He did not give them one sound bite that they could turn against him.

At least not one that I have heard broadcast.

While Kerry gave up some gems - "global test" - the winner!

[Roscoe Karns]

LOL!

[hattend]

BTTT

[GOPJ]

LOL

Kerry... Saddam was a growing threat so he had to be disarmed so Kerry voted for war in order to authorise Bush to go to the UN but Bush failed to pass "the global test" so we shouldn't have disarmed Saddam because he wasn't a threat so the war was a mistake so Kerry will bring the troops home by persuading France and Germany to send their troops instead because he's so much better at building alliances so he'll have no trouble talking France and Germany into sending their boys to be the last men to die for Bush's mistake.

Have I got that right?

[Bandaneira]

Mark Steyn is a very good writer. He is also a very good word-smith. I wonder how much of a thinker he really is.

I have a question for him...

How will the question of sovereignty over the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the Holy Land finally be decided ?

He is a good Jewish boy, so I wonder if he knows about the 12th Article of Faith ?

(Mark, if you read this, send me a reply.)

[upchuck]

The Sun-Times article is 1074 words, the one in The Telegraph is 1094 — only a 20-word difference.

True. But the big difference is that this one is not unnecessarily excerpted.

[watchin]

Why don't you just throw yourself on the floor and have a good old temper tantrum? You'll feel better, and maybe mommy will get you some cookies and milk.

[Rummyfan]

A majority of the American people - albeit not as big a majority as it ought to be - gets this. John Kerry still does not. Which means he lost the debate. He got a technical win on points from the pundits, but this election won't be won on points. It's primal. The pundits keep missing this.

As always Steyn puts my thoughts into words: it is PRIMAL and the Artful Dodger just doesn't get it. Thanks Pokey!

[Rummyfan]

Mark Steyn is a VERY good writer. He is not Jewish however (I believe). He is of Belgian/Flemish descent and Canadian by birth.

[Bandaneira]

He is jewish.