Duane posts in The Forest For The Trees with the source for Cheney's line in a speech last night saying, 'Senator Kerry began his political career by saying he would like to see our troops deployed "only at the directive of the United Nations.'"
He found the source for the information in an interview in the Harvard Crimson where Kerry said, "'I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.'"
Go read the rest. I'll wait....
Duane ends his post with:
Some people will claim that Kerry at 26 is not the same man as Kerry today. I would tend to agree. Kerry today is more nuanced, more polished and more "selective" in his delivery. The ideas are the same, only the delivery has changed.
It seems to me that Kerry chose to present his persona as The Vietnam Vet instead of The Senator. In essence, he's running as that 26-year-old man so when people respond to him as such, he has no one to blame but himself...although I'm sure he'll find a way to blame his campaign staff instead.
Not that he's happy when people question his senate career. Or talk about him being lieutenant governor. Notice how his bio on the waffles site doesn't mention who was governor at the time?
It's not surprising he chose the Vietnam vet image. Compared to the rest of his career, that was a time when he had the most attention. He was a darling of the media. He had senators fawning over him when he testified before the Committee on Foreign Relations. It was a golden time for him.
What a rude surprise it must have been for him to find that the vets he slandered are now home and have a voice with which to defend themselves. It was so much easier to call them names behind their backs.
Kerry tries to be a man of a thousand faces, something different for everyone. Unfortunately for him, he's the opposite of Lon Chaney (the original man of a thousand faces). Where Chaney covered a nice face with scarey make up, Kerry puts on a nice (nice being relative here) face to hide his not-so-nice past.
Posted by marybeth at September 2, 2004 01:00 PM Politics