John Fence-sitter Kerry---still whining about being a flip-flopper 4 years later.
Amazing.
Posted on 03/31/2008 6:29:14 PM PDT by melt
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States was for slavery “before we were against it.”
That history lesson was brought to you by Sen. John Kerry, who argues that if an entire nation can be indecisive about human bondage, voters surely should forgive a political leader who changes his or her mind.
“Decisiveness wrongly applied can create a lot of pain for the nation and big, big historic mistakes,” says the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee labeled a “flip-flopper” by President Bush.
Four years after his unsuccessful run, Kerry sat down with Associated Press reporters for more than 30 minutes to discuss the history and practice of decisiveness in U.S. politics. The irony was not lost on the Massachusetts senator, who mixed thoughtful opinions on the topic with jabs at Bush and a self-effacing reference to his reputation as a malleable man.
In 2003, Kerry supported $87 billion in emergency money for troops and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the bill was conditioned on repealing much of Bush’s tax cuts. It failed. On the critical, up-or-down vote on the $87 billion tab, Kerry voted no. His awkward explanation — “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it” — played into the wishy-washy caricature Bush hoped to create.
“In a president, people are looking for strength — strength of character, strength of purpose, strength of belief,” Kerry told the AP.
The sentiment is strongest in anxious times like these. “I think it’s a plea above all for a strong response to their plight,” he said, adding that people look to strong leaders and say, “Help me. Make a difference. Change things.”
But Kerry said the political system has trivialized decisiveness “in regrettable ways that don’t do justice to the complexity of the choices that we face.”
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John Fence-sitter Kerry---still whining about being a flip-flopper 4 years later.
Amazing.
He didn’t say it before he said it though.
It’s not so much politicians changing their minds as it is having one in the first place. The space between J F Kerry’s ears is as close to a perfect vacuum as I can imagine.
Still a twit.
Obviously, he is still piqued at Richard Nixon for sending him to Cambodia at Christmas, 1968. You know, before Nixon was even President.
History will be very unkind to this fraud.
BTW, changed your mind about the one-eight-oh yet, Kerry?
I think in general people are quite forgiving, and understand that now and then politicians change their mind. However, when the politicians seem to have no position whatsoever, and say something today, something else next week, and yet move to something new the following week, people start to wonder if the politicians understand the issue.
My mom taught me not to speak ill of the dead.
Traitor Kerry needs to take one more step for me to justify the changing of my habits, in his regard.
“if an entire nation can be indecisive about human bondage”???? Does he not remember that half our nation was fighting against slavery?
John, you didn’t lose because you were indecisive. You lost because people figured out you were an opportunist sack of crap.
Wasn’t he in Vietnam?
Didn’t he fight in Vietnam?
coke bet.
I was against John Kerry before I voted against him.
As usual, Kerry has things backward:
Politicians should forgive voters who change their minds!!!
How about politicians that are pathological liars?
I take exception to the inference that Kerry is a snake. Snakes are honorable creatures.
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