Eric Lindholm has fun with JF Kerry for his tale-told-to-Tim (Russert) about how he met with various Arab prime ministers and presidents who told him, to a one, that they would be in Iraq had President Bush been nice to them.
It was a case of Kerry being Kerry, and I thought nothing of the exchange, but it’s getting some play. Eric covers the credulity factor and he links to others.
This is what Kerry does, and it fit my thesis perfectly. Kerry has no foreign policy; rather, he listens to Joe Biden (who also mentors McCain and Hegel on many issues). Joe Biden constantly relates how he has spoken with such and such world leader who would be more than pleased to help out if the President would stop calling them names in public. It’s comical coming from Joe Biden, but from JF Kerry, it’s self-destructive sycophancy.
Don’t get me wrong, Kerry’s an intelligent guy; his problem is, he is not a thinker, not an intellectual. Joe Biden is. Technically, at this point in our history, I’d have to say that Joe Biden is potentially the most dangerous Senator. (Kennedy, Boxer, Kerry are annoying, but they’re all relatively dumb-as-a-post. Biden’s not.)
