Kerry Is Everything George Bush* Is Not

[kskiska]

By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor

MINNEAPOLIS -- Struggling to find the worst thing he could say about Sen. John Kerry, a senior member of the Bush administration proclaimed last year, "He looks so ... so ... French!"

By "French," the Bushite must have meant well educated, articulate, dignified, sophisticated, worldly - everything President George W. Bush, who likes to play tough Texas Ranger, is not.

However, being educated and sophisticated is not a political asset in America's heartland - parts of the midwest, mountain states, and south, where Bush is often venerated with the kind of mindless adulation North Koreans shower on their "Beloved Leader," Kim Jong-il.

The United States is unique among advanced nations in demanding wealthy career politicians running for high office pretend they are simple working-class fellows who drink beer and bowl.

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Kerry may be counted on to return the U.S. to its pre-Bush foreign policy, beginning by improving relations with Europe's core nations, France and Germany. To the horror of many Bushites, whose preferred language appears to be speaking in tongues, the Boston senator reportedly speaks ... French.

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Bush fans want a Texas Ranger as commander-in-chief, not a stuffy suit from Boston who doesn't even chew gum. That Kerry was a decorated veteran while Bush avoided service in Vietnam seems not to matter.

Besides, Kerry looks French.

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[Manix]

1. BushCo preys on the misinformed and the ignorant, sadly, there are

many of them.

[eleonora]

2. Hmm...he may not be French but...

He has a French cousin and spent his summers in France.