Kerry's line about passing the "global test" was a gaffe. As soon as he said it, everyone watching instantly thought, "wow, the Republicans are really going to have a great time with that one." Even George Bush, whose bulb has rarely been quite as dim as it was that night, picked up on it. I may have been imagining it, but I even thought I noticed Kerry wincing while he said it, as though he realized it as well just as soon as the words were out of his mouth.
Obviously, he was searching for another way to phrase his major theme of the need to foster a greater degree of international cooperation on security matters, and came up with a bad sound bite. It happens. While I don't share Kerry's apparently uncomplicated faith in the UN, I have to assume he's not insane enough to have intentionally advocated, on national television, ceding sovereignty to foreign countries and promising to check with France every time a decision needs to be made, as the Republican spinners suggest.
However, he's probably going to have to figure out a better way to explain what he did mean. Other than this, I mean:
the test that I was talking about was a test of legitimacy, not just in the globe, but elsewhere.Posted by Dr. Frank at October 5, 2004 03:12 PM | TrackBack
i dont know nothing about no countries saying they wouldnt help "no matter who's parked in the oval office." from what i understand, if we turned over operations to the UN many more countries would be willing to cooperate.
and this is a pretty funny quote from kerry. did anyone catch bush's misspeak from a few weeks ago while speaking about the "evils" of universal health care?
"Alot of good docs are gonna lose their jobs. A lot of OB-GYNS aren't going to practice their, their love, with women all over the country."
Posted by: christ opher at October 5, 2004 09:33 PMYeah, that was a pretty comical moment. I don'r know too many women who would associate "love" with a PAP.
Posted by: Zaphod at October 6, 2004 01:55 AMSpeaking of not going there, about the only benefit of having a nearly incoherent commander in chief is that there's no way the Republicans will even mention this slip-up. That is to say, I really hope they do.
Posted by: Dave Bug at October 6, 2004 06:58 AMFor too long, our political opponents have focused on what happens in the globe, while ignoring the real threats on the globe and, perhaps of most concern, off the globe.
While that which goes on within the globe -- of course I speak of hobbits, same-sex marriage between various orcs, the marching of dwarves, etc. -- it is important to remember the *surface* of our globe is also a zone of monsters, especially Dracula-type threats. And who among us does not wake in the night fearing the Moon Men?
Posted by: Ken Layne at October 7, 2004 08:14 PMDon't be such an unassuming frood. The only man on the moon is Andy Kauffman. Everybody knows that the human abductors come from Frogstar World B. We can blame it all on the people from Golgafrincham.
Posted by: Zaphod at October 9, 2004 01:25 AM