On another Blog, I had posted...John Kerry is the modern day Benedict Arnold. Another poster reminded me that actually Benedict Arnold really was a war hero before he sold out. The comparison to Kerry insults Arnold.
I, in shooting from the hip, besmirched Benedict Arnold. That’s tough to do....but I damn sure did it.
There is a monument to Benedict Arnold’s leg at Saratoga, where Arnold was a legitimate hero and sustained a serious wound to his left leg. I’m pretty sure that no one will ever erect a monument to any part of John Kerry’s body. To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
There is a monument to Benedict Arnold’s leg at Saratoga, where Arnold was a legitimate hero and sustained a serious wound to his left leg. I’m pretty sure that no one will ever erect a monument to any part of John Kerry’s body. To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
How can you be so certain? The North Vietnamese hold him in fairly high esteem and, while it may not be his leg they’ve memorialized, they do have his likeness in a place of honor.
Although Bill Clinton reveled in his image as the “first black president,” President Bush has won plaudits for doing more to help blacks in Africa, which he is visiting this week.
The most prominent example of this disparity is in the funding of the fight against AIDS. Mr. Bush recently pushed a $15 billion AIDS bill through Congress.
“His $15 billion commitment is unparalleled,” said Melvin Foote, executive director of the nonpartisan Constituency for Africa. “Clinton offered $300 million, parking-meter money, even though he knew it was a tremendous challenge.”
Even liberals have credited Mr. Bush with doing more than his predecessor to help Africa. In May, Live Aid founder Bob Geldof said Mr. Bush is far more committed than Mr. Clinton to fighting AIDS and famine on the continent.
To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
Not so fast there John, pieces of silver take many forms…
Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam - an odd coincidence.
As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry’s biography. Hopefully, he’ll include the senator’s latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died.
Michael Benge is a Foreign Service officer and a former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973)
Obviously, Kerry has been spending time with Jimmy Carter and the latter’s penchant (a French word) for embarrassing himself with his virulent anti-Americanisms is rubbing off.
“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.â€
If one accepts the premise, that is not such a bad thing considering how evil, corrupt, or decrepit most of the worlds govts. are.
Kerry said the government needs to use diplomacy to improve national security.
“We need to do a better job of protecting our interests, because after all, that’s what diplomacy is about,†he said.
True enough, would that we only had a diplomatic corps which placed our interests ahead of their own internationalist predilections
“But you have to do it in a context of the reality, not your lens but the reality of those other cultures and histories.â€
Rank sophistry, the kind of relativist gibberish one might expect to hear in a “studies” class at one of our nations highshools or universities, and not (one would hope) from a US Senator in an overseas forum
Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit†of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.â€
Pfft. Kerry, the left, and unfortunately most of the planet should should try an objective lens.
John Kerry is both clueless and stuck on stupid. He and Jimmy Carter are in a race to see who can most destroy our country’s interest. It is not surprising that our image in the world community has fallen after the pummeling by the Dems and the MSM for the past years. This is exactly where they want us - at the mercy of our enemies. They despise and detest the US of A.
According to Kerry not only our soldiers are idiots but the American people are idiots as well. Only the french know what is best. I will never buy Heinz Catsup again.
he was a do-nothing, faceless politician prior to the ‘04 election.
and so he returns.
his wife won’t have to change her name again.
it’s a shame the people of massachusetts keep reelecting the dope, but it is massachusetts, so what can one expect. the next guy will be just as ridiculous.
I have been a registered Republican all my life living in Massachusetts. Kerry always has been a joke. Never voted for a Kennedy, Kerry or their ilk. A minority and proud of it!
I have been a registered Republican all my life living in Massachusetts. Kerry always has been a joke. Never voted for a Kennedy, Kerry or their ilk. A minority and proud of it!
red, I live in NYC- I, too, know what it’s like to have my vote nullified before I throw the lever.
here’s my federal representation-
Clinton
Schumer
Jerrold Nadler
