Some day the Kewl Kidz (aka, the Beltway Moronic Fuckwit Punditry) will finally realize that we the people are better served by someone who is a moderately good communicator, is slightly square socially, and may not be their choice of Prom Date for the Correspondant's dinner.
Because their love affair with the Preznit Empty Hear has served no one well. Once again, John Kerry hits the nail on the head:
I say this to President Bush as someone who learned the hard way how embracing the world's complexity can be twisted into a crude political shorthand. Barbed words can make for great politics. But with U.S. troops in Iraq in the middle of an escalating civil war, this is no time for politics. Refusing to change course for fear of the political fallout is not only dangerous -- it is immoral.
I'd rather explain a change of position any day than look a parent in the eye and tell them that their son or daughter had to die so that a broken policy could live.
Those are the words of a leader. Not the words of a policy ignoramus whose first instinct is to protect himself politically and physically at all costs.
I don't think I could live with the heartbreak of John Kerry getting savaged by the Kewl Kidz again, but I'll damn sure bet you that he'd have more respect for, and be more respected by anyone in uniform today than the Empty Suit who struts around calling himself the Decider and relishes using the troops he doesn't give a shit about as backdrops and showpieces for his bullshit speeches.
You have to wonder how many of the more senior folks in the military today are finally beginning to believe that Junior went AWOL, as we all said. He's not officer material, much less fit to be where he is.
And thousands have paid the price for that mistake.
