Sunday, April 18

KERRY VS. CONDI


Well, I just listened to John Kerry on Meet the Press and Condi Rice on This Week. The contrast was sharp. Kerry answered Tim Russert's questions directly and in the manner of a leader. Condi spun and spun all around the two Georges. You could see Wills squirming in anger? frustration? simple disagreement? Russert really gave it to John Kerry -- he didn't spare him a single rash action/statement from throughout his career. A couple of times, he even started speechifying to Kerry. But Kerry took the whole thing with characteristic aplomb, spoke candidly and confidently, and appeared statesmanlike. He even came back at Tim with one of HIS incorrect statements from 2000 regarding Social Security/Medicare.

I don't agree with John Kerry on everything. I'm a Deaniac and an Anybody-But-Bush Democrat. But during the Russert confrontation I was SO PROUD that he's representing our party right now. He makes George W. Bush look like what he is -- a fumbling, igorant, incurious, arrogant, criminal failure.