The Lying Equivocating Kerry
John Kerry’s lifetime of lies and equivocations seems to be finally catching up with him. From the Boston Globe:
Just two weeks after John Kerry issued a statement saying that no campaign shakeup loomed, the assurance that all is fine is now apparently, ah, inoperative. Chris Lehane, Kerry’s communications director, has now jumped ship, said to be frustrated that Kerry sat on his hands while Howard Dean soared by him.And last week, Kerry distanced himself from the controversy-dousing declaration that he planned no changes in his team.
“Those weren’t precisely my words,” he told the Globe’s Michael Kranish. “They were the words of a press release sent out.”
Apparently only utterances from the candidate himself can be taken at face value. Of course, when it’s the senator himself speaking, the sentiments can be awfully hard to decipher. Last Tuesday, during the Democratic debate in Baltimore, Kerry was asked about his vote to authorize the use of force (or “to threaten the use of force,” as Kerry has tried to characterize it) against Iraq. Replied the candidate: “If we hadn’t voted the way we voted, we would not have been able to have a chance of going to the United Nations and stopping the president, in effect, who already had the votes and who was obviously asking serious questions about whether or not the Congress was going to be there to enforce the effort to create a threat.”
To call that answer incoherent is to pay it a fulsome compliment.
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