NYT: Kerry Remark on Foreign Leaders Faulted

[DeepModem Mom]

Kerry Remark on Foreign Leaders Faulted
By JODI WILGOREN

Published: March 15, 2004


BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 14 — A Republican business owner here in this November battleground state and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell had the same questions Sunday for Senator John Kerry: Which foreign leaders told you they support your campaign, and when did you meet with them?

The questions, in a volatile exchange at a forum here and in an interview on Fox News Sunday, stemmed from a comment that Mr. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, made last Monday at a Florida fund-raiser. It was the second time in recent days that stray comments by Mr. Kerry diverted attention from his themes of creating jobs and providing health insurance....

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As his aides have all week, Mr. Kerry refused Sunday to cite any names of foreign officials or describe their rank, telling reporters, "I can't violate any conversation because no one would share something with me again."

Instead, Mr. Kerry disputed the wording of his comment, and tried to change the subject from individual leaders' specific support of his efforts to oust President Bush to a broader deterioration of the United States' international reputation....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/politics/campaign/15TRAI.html

[MarianJack]

1. If powell is Honest,...

...which he isn't, HE would be able to name those leaders himself!

[punpirate]

2. Wouldn't the right love to know those leaders' names?

Then they could make a big stink about foreign interference in our election, do some new France- and Germany-bashing, etc., and try to apply pressure on those countries in order to elicit retractions, which they could then say would be endorsements for Bush.

Hope Kerry keeps them on tenterhooks on this one.

[Hav]

3. .

I think Spain's new leader already made clear that he wants to see Bush lose.

[union_maid]

4. I think the answer would be...

....most of them. Most leaders of whatever we're calling the free world these days would love to see the end of Bush. We're scaring the whole world, and not because we're tough. We're tough, crazy and stupid at the moment. Not a great combination.

[Robb]

6. What's the phrase?

"We've got the bomb, and we're just crazy enough to use it!!"

I think Reagan was the last real "mad bomber" president; now we've got a whole administration trying the same schtick on people who remain unimpressed.

I miss having a foreign policy that took more than three words to describe. :eyes:

[union_maid]

7. Rogue Nation?

Are we one now?

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. He should tell them

it's none of their fucking business. He should demand from them an answer to...Who told THEM that they should be the rulers of the world? :grr:

[PA-DEM]

8. Maybe Powell should answer this question

Why did he lie and say he new were the WMD's were.

[LizW]

9. Good Morning America just took this a step further

and implied Kerry lied. Stephanopolis pointed out that Kerry had not been out of the country for two years and that he had only been in the presence of a foreign leader once recently.

Diane Sawyer was all a-titter.

Classic Goreing by the press. :puke:

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Hmmmm......

"Got Phones?" :eyes: They're really grasping at staws here.

[JI7]

11. leaders who were ELECTED by the people unlike chimp

and to see the unelected fraud gone.

[never cry wolf]

12. No politician announces an endorsement

Unless the endorser announces it first or concurrently. This is simply a stupid argument.