Thursday, May 11, 2006
KERRY “COMPELLING”
The Nation’s Ari Berman hails the new John Kerry—a flip-flopped version of the former flip-flopper, in other words:
In the past few months Kerry has presented a side of himself very different from the one the public saw during the 2004 campaign. Freed from the grip of consultants, the spotlight of the national media and the Republican attack dogs, he is looser, clearer and more compelling.
Translation: can’t handle pressure. Keep away from White House.
Call it the Al Gore Effect.
Hey! Handing out the insults is our job, Ari.
People close to him certainly sense a change in attitude. Former Senator Gary Hart, a confidant, believes Kerry has circled back to the Vietnam era ...
This is a change?
“What does he have to lose now?” says Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley. “He might as well go for broke.”
Broke? What, is Teresa cutting off his allowance?
That wasn’t always Kerry’s attitude.
Nothing ever is.
And after years of vacillation, he has found his voice on Iraq.
So now he’s demanding the Bush administration stop vacillating.
His new mantra, says Kerry, is “clarity and brevity.”
Not just brevity. Clarity and brevity. Please run again, Mr. Kerry.