Flip-flop Kerry

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Io ancora non l'ho capito......


August 19, 2004
MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS

FROM: WILLIAM KRISTOL

SUBJECT: John Kerry Doesn't Know His Own Mind


The problem with being an opportunist is that you can easily forget what you've recently said.

On Monday, during a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, President Bush announced that he intends to modify the configuration of American forces in both South Korea and Europe. On Wednesday, Sen. Kerry, speaking before the same audience, sharply criticized the president's decision.

Appearing on ABC's "This Week" on August 1, however, Sen. Kerry responded to a question by host George Stephanopoulos on Iraq. Stephanopoulos asked Kerry whether, as president, he could "promise that American troops will be home by the end of your first term?" Kerry's answer:

I will have significant, enormous reduction in the level of troops…. I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there but elsewhere in the world. In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps. There are great possibilities open to us. But this administration has very little imagination.

Apparently, Sen. Kerry wanted to appeal to the "get-the-boys-back-home" sentiment in the country when he spoke on "This Week." Yesterday, addressing a convention of veterans, Kerry was busy burnishing his credentials as a hawk by suggesting that cutting our forces in Korea "is clearly the wrong signal to send" at this time.

Who knows what Sen. Kerry believes? Does Sen. Kerry even know?

[Steve Kylesh]

On the GOP convention's final night, speeches by an African-American and a Cuban-American reflected on previous days' themes of "people of compassion" and a "land of opportunity."

Texan Michael Williams told conventioneers about his failed attempt to become the first black elected official in Midland, Texas.

"George W. Bush didn't just agree to vote for me. He agreed to be my campaign manager," Williams said. "I'm here to tell you firsthand that [Bush's] commitment to inclusion goes back to a time when nobody was watching."

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez spoke about his arrival to America as a 15-year-old Cuban and his rise to national office.

"I have lived the American dream, and I am determined to ensure the possibility of that dream for others," Martinez said. "I am here to ask you to re-elect President George W. Bush ... I believe in George Bush's idea of 'compassionate conservatism.' From the time I first heard him talk about it, I said, 'compassionate conservatism is the story of my life.' "

In the walk-up to Pataki's address, former U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks told delegates he was neither Republican nor Democrat but that America must fight terrorists.

"The question is do we fight them over there -- or do we fight them here," Franks said. "I choose to fight them over there.

"The past three years have been hard years, a time of hard decisions and tough choices," Franks said. "I have looked into his eyes and I have seen his character. I have seen courage and consistency ... the courage to stand up to terrorists and the consistency necessary to beat them."

[dragone]

il problema di Kerry è riunire quanti più possibili elettori eterogenei,quindi cerca di tenere il piede in 2,3,4 scarpe.in questo ricorda molto Prodi e Fassino