A tale of two speeches

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Original Item

We just listened to portions of the president's speech in, of all places, New Jersey. GWB was crisp, optimistic and brutal in his denunciation of Kerry's 30 year record of weakness on security and intelligence issues and Kerry's childlike inability to grasp the scope and seriousness of the War with Jihadistan.

Now we are listening to Kerry speak in Florida ... moribund, droning, reciting the same talking points from the first debate, apparently unaware of the findings of the ISG regarding Saddam's bribes of France and Russia ... he's smart, Bush is dumb ... etc. ... Still telling the Bremer and Shinseki lies ... gratuitous reference to Vietnam ... proud of his postwar treason ... we are tempted to continue listening for the requisite shot at Halliburton, but Kerry's supercillious drone churns up the left over whiskey in our guts and we tend to get overly gaseous.

Man, how is it that the alleged idiot can tailor his stump speech to every occasion and crowd but the "genius" is limited to the same talking points speech after speech, debate after debate? Hell, it's to the point we can even recite parts along with him ...

As we've written elsewhere, the SS Kerry-Heinz is sinking ... the demagoguery vis-a-vis the draft, Social Security and "voter disenfranchisement" (read: asking people to produce i.d. at polling places) is in full force. The black church burning ads should be starting soon ...


UPDATE
After a fantastic evening of baseball we got to watch a replay of Bush's NJ speech on CSPAN.

At points, he was positively Reaganesque, not in his delivery, of course, but in his hope that the region that serves as the breeding ground for Islamo-fascism can be transformed by representative government and economic freedom. Much as Reagan believed that liberal democracy could take hold in the Soviet Bloc and Central America, Bush believes this is possible in the Middle East.

Which reminds us why we so prefer Bush's worldview to that of his opponent: Bush believes in American Exceptionalism, the notion, so poo-pooed by the smart folk, that America is special. His opponent clearly believes the opposite, indeed that we should strive to be more like the failed welfare states of Old Europe. We found it astonishing that, to our recollection, not once was Kerry asked over the course of three debates, to defend or recant statements like this, from a 1970 profile in the Harvard Crimson:

Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

Were these just the intemperate blatherings of a young man seeking to build a political career or do they reflect what Kerry truly believed and still does? We believe the latter to be the case.

One of the president's fave lines to use on the stump, is that John Kerry's is a 9/10 worldview. We concur -- 9/10/1969. Wrong then, wrong in 1984 and woefully out of date and dangerous today.