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The flood of devious falsehoods being propagated by the President and his surrogates are been coordinated in manner intended to impugn senator Kerry's character is the worst possible manner. The most insidious is probably the “flip-flopper” charge, because is thinly disguises a mortal assault on the senator’s character as a man of principle, of courage, of steel.
The DNC has been week on defending Kerry and hammering the Repubs with the kind of STRONG LANGUAGE that is called for. So far this week speakers have focused on John as “Strong.” Today the podium should focus on John as “Righteous.”
John Kerry is the last Just Man standing who can take the fight to Bush
Edgar Wallace's classic novel, The Four Just Men, told a story a band of men for whom justice was more important than life itself. These four men of substance felt the task thrust upon them of bringing to justice powerful peers who through deceit and power could keep themselves above the reach of the law.
John Kerry is such a just man for our time. His sacred mission is to bring an end the rule of Bush at the ballot box in November.
He is a soldier of courage and conscience in fighting for his flag and country and protesting an unjust war.
He is a prosecutor who sought fairness in the system and brought mob bosses to justice.
He is a principled legislator respected by men of principle on both sides of the aisle who seek just law to keep the powerful in check and regulate the affairs of state.
Some leaders must, in prime time, stand-up for Kerry and pull the curtain on the Repub fraud machine. Maybe Clark and Lieberman will be willing to "look bad" but do the right thing. The truth is ugly, but a lie unanswered is deadly.
George Bush is Unbelievable
The President is now the mouthpiece-in-chief of a dynasty of deceit in which stories are manufactured to suit the needs to the day: stories about who gets the tax-breaks; stories about why men are sent to war; stories about wins gains and who looses under Bush rules.
Each look into the Bush regime reveals a truth stranger that fiction: Paul O’Neil reveals a head of state out of touch with the business of state; David Kay finds that “we were all wrong” about WMDs; Al Franken finds lies and lying liars that tell them.
Bush uses “Flip-Flop” to cover-up his flops
Bush senior said Bob Dole flip-flopped. Bush junior said Al Gore flip-flopped. Now George Bush’s talking about Kerry flip-flops as a way to get through a fund-raiser without talking about Bush flops – Bush flops on jobs, Bush flops on health-care, Bush flops on education, Bush flops on international alliances; Bush flops on Iraq.
Now, quite seriously, George Bush seems to use the one word “flip-flop” as a synonym for a host of more complicated concepts including: negotiating a compromise, addressing the problem, understanding opposing views, seeking an alternative, and, of course, “knowing a flop when you see it.”
It is clear that using the peculiar vocabulary of the Bush campaign, a senator who is thoughtful, analytical and judicious is definitely a raving, “unsteady,” “flip-flopper.”
Reviewing the job-loss impacts of NAFA and calling for enforcement of labor and environmental provisions is not a thoughtful first-step to address the problem BUT flip-flopping.
Supporting the Presidents authority to use force in Iraq but calling for respect for the judgment of our major Allies and U.N. inspections process is not statesmanship, BUT flip-flopping.
And so it goes; three more months to go. Let’s hope come November we don’t have a prolonged debate about whether the voters are flip-flopping on the President when they send him back to Texas. Let’s hope the era of the “limited vocabulary” will be over.
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