It must be so liberating for Senator Kerry. Now that he has announced he is not planning to run for president in 2008, he no longer needs to pretend, no longer needs to polish his image, he can finally proclaim to the world that which has troubled him but was left unsaid for so long (or at least for a couple of years now): the United States has become ”a sort of international pariah”.
Oh sure, he still needs to face the voters of Massachusetts, but how tough is it to get elected in a state where Teddy Kennedy keeps getting sent back to Washington year after year even after the Chappaquiddick incident and reports he tried to subvert President Reagan’s foreign policy by offering to “assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts” (which some might view as treason, but at the very least is a likely violation of the Logan Act) how likely is it that Massachusetts would ever vote Kerry out of office for simply calling the United States a pariah?
But consider how many of us were fooled in 2004; how many of us voted for this man who seems to hate America? If he loves this country, why does he visit foreign countries and speak of America in a way that confirms the worst views of this country? Is that love?
Try this for yourself, if you dare. Tell your wife (or husband or significant other) that you really love her, but she has become a sort of pariah among your friends and co-workers. Tell her that the decisions she has made have been selfish and have not considered the needs of your friends, that you are embarrassed by her behavior and that you have just told all of your friends that she is a pariah and that you are aware that she needs to change her behavior.
Then let us know, assuming you are still conscious and not writhing in pain on the floor from a well placed kick to the groin, if she understands that you are just trying to show how much you love her.
Here’s what John Kerry thinks about our great country and felt compelled to share with the world while on foreign soil, from USA Today:
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become “a sort of international pariah.”
Kerry said the Bush administration has failed to adequately address a number of foreign policy issues, speaking during a World Economic Forum panel discussion that also included Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi and Mohammad Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s more moderate predecessor as Iranian president.
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.
Reality check senator (from Wikipedia):
On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 95–0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or “would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States”. … Both (VP) Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations. The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
So… the Senate rejected the Kyoto Protocol by a vote of 95-0 before it was even submitted for ratification and the Clinton administration never submitted it for ratification and somehow not only does Kerry believe it was wrong to reject the Kyoto Protocol, somehow this is Bush’s fault even though he wasn’t elected until 2000… amazing.
Regarding AIDS in Africa, this is our problem how? Is it because we care about the well-being of others? Feel compelled, as a compassionate nation, to help the people of other nations who are suffering? Kind of like the people of Iraq under Saddam Hussein perhaps? Did you know that the United States global commitment to fight AIDS is greater under President Bush than it was under President Clinton? Why would you… the press can’t report anything that will contradict the lies of the left:
C. HIV/AIDS Global Funding: Historic High Levels and Climbing…
- $988 million in FY2002, a 36% increase over FY2001
- $1.1 billion in FY2003, doubles level of funding when he took office
- $500 million to Global HIV/AIDS Fund, first and largest contributor
Promote Health and Education; Combat HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria
Continuing with the USA Today article:
“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.”
Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”
“We should be less engaged in this ‘neocon’ rhetoric of regime change and more involved in building relations and living up to our own values so that people make a different judgment about us.”
So this is a neocon plot is it? Is Bill Clinton a neocon too? Check this out from Amy Proctor:
Today I am signing into law H.R. 4655, the “Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.” This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi opposition that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime in Baghdad now offers.
Let me be clear on what the U.S. objectives are: The United States wants Iraq to rejoin the family of nations as a freedom-loving and law-abiding member. This is in our interest and that of our allies within the region.
The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq’s history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life.
On October 21, 1998, I signed into law the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, which made $8 million available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition.
Those dirty-rotten Clinton neocons!
Clearly the Democrats’ support for any foreign policy has much more to do with who is in office at the time than what the policy happens to be.
Word to the voters of Massachusetts. Do us all a favor and turn this guy into a private citizen. We’ve had more than enough of this America-hating liberal who can’t keep his mouth shut, and his facts straight, when the opportunity to criticize this great nation presents itself on foreign soil.
By the way… whatever did happen to that Logan Act:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Sounds like a potential violation of the Logan Act to me. Too bad we never seem to enforce this law.
By the way… Welcome back Hanoi Jane! So good to see all the nuts from the Vietnam era climbing out from under their rocks now that they see a chance to lose another war for us.
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