|
Page 1 2 3
John Kerry's 816-Word Concession Speech
by Jason Roth
I didn't count Kerry's vague assertion that "the administration must make the United Nations a full partner" as part of his strategy because "full partner" is completely undefined. Obviously, the implication is that the U.S. should sacrifice its own interests to those of the U.N., but Kerry fails to mention which tasks the U.N. would be handling and why. This "full partner" comment amounts to your mother saying, "You should let Johnny play!" But what if Johnny is an asshole, mommy?
I also didn't count Kerry's final, so-called strategy statement that "we must level with our citizens... around a clear and credible goal" because Kerry is unspecific as to how Bush is unclear or how he, Kerry, would be clearer. This is typical political candidate hot air about how goddamn up-front and honest he'll be when he gets into office. Listen, Kerry. You're a politician. We know you're a lying motherfucker, so do us a favor and don't compound it by lying about your dishonesty. Be honest. Admit you're full of shit.
So now let's address Kerry's strategy statements.
Number one: deploying more troops. Not a completely off-the-wall statement. Sort of equivalent to "Our military commanders might not be complete fucking idiots", but not off-the-wall, nevertheless. My only question is: wasn't Kerry against the war? I'm sorry, what I mean to say is: Isn't Kerry now saying that he was against the war? And if being against the war is the retroactive stance he's deciding to take, then why would he want more troops? He must mean that it was a bad idea to deploy troops while Saddam Hussein was in power, but it's a good idea now that Hussein is gone. Mr. Kerry obviously thinks that Iraq was less threatening to the United States with Hussein running the country. Either that, or he's subscribing to the "clean up what you started" principle. This isn't completely off-the-wall either. But why? Who says we have to clean it up? How are we going to make it clean? What should we try to achieve, and how does that relate to going to war in the first place? Was the war a good idea, or not? If you want me to flick the lever next to your name in November, put something together that's comprehensible, for Christ's sake.
|
