Leadership
When I heard John Kerry tell George Bush yesterday, “Look behind you, there’s hardly anyone there,” all I could do was laugh. What about the approximately 70 percent of the U.S. military, Senator Kerry? They seem to be following President Bush pretty enthusiastically.
And how does this new quote play with those allies you have been disrespecting, Senator Kerry?
“He wants to make it solely a contest on national security,” Kerry said. “You know, the president says he’s a leader. Well, Mr. President, look behind you. There’s hardly anyone there. It’s not leadership if we haven’t built the strongest alliance possible and if America is almost alone.”Kerry softened an earlier draft of the speech that said, “No one is there. It’s not leadership if no one follows” because an aide said he did not want to offend those allies who joined the U.S.-led invasion and were helping now in Iraq.
So I guess changing the language from “no one” is there to “hardly anyone” will completely erase the many months of Kerry belittling the coalition of the “bribed” and “coerced.”
So Bush, who has done what was often not the popular thing to do, and has remained constant and steady is not leading. John Kerry, who has espoused every conceivable position on almost every subject, depending on which way the political winds were blowing, is leading. As I said earlier, I laughed.
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