Kerry's Judgment (or Lack Thereof)
Imagine you are running for President. You have asked for Secret Service protection just in case some lunatic takes a shot at you. You have been campaigning hard and have wrapped up your party's nomination. So you take a much needed vacation that you expect will provide some nice photo ops. You are a good snowboarder, so you invite the media along to admire your prowess. Most of them hate the current president, so they'll make you look good unless you do something really stupid. Then it happens.

A secret service agent cuts in front of you and you go tumbling. This should not be a big deal, reporters say you fell at least six times during the day. But you wanted to look in control, a hip sixty-something, perfect. You know, you wanted to look presidential. So you tell the reporters "I don't fall down. The son of a bitch knocked me over."

Never mind the fact that you have reinforced your reputation of being a vulgar man. Many Americans use profanity and your base will certainly overlook that. However, you just publicly insulted one of men responsible for protecting your life. This man is expected to jump in front of a bullet for you. In the remote chance anyone decides you are worth killing, you have now reduced the Secret Service agents' motivation for placing your welfare above their own. Your lack of judgment is astounding. And you expect voters to give you responsibility for our well being. Senator Kerry, I am not that stupid.

This story was put together from accounts I heard on television, but you can find some details at Drudge.

The King of Fools found the Classical Values perspective ...about evaluating powerful people. Watch how they treat the little people, he said; like the ordinary workers, servants, waiters, secretaries, etc. The kind of guy who's rude to a waiter or who yells at his secretary is the same sort who'll stab you in the back, welch on a deal, and treat you like shit if he ever has power over you. Let us vote to ensure Kerry never has power over us.

Some might say a few of us bloggers are making a mountain out of a molehill. But Kerry has a pattern of arrogance. He and his staff expect special treatment, to the extent they even hacked off Dave Barry last September. Sen. John Kerry, who once came, with his entourage, into a ski-rental shop in Ketchum, Idaho, where I was waiting patiently with my family to rent snowboards, and Sen. Kerry used one of his lackeys to flagrantly barge in line ahead of us and everybody else, as if he had some urgent senatorial need for a snowboard, like there was about to be an emergency meeting, out on the slopes, of the Joint Halfpipe Committee. Kerry is not the type of man who should be our leader.

 
 
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Many thanks for the link.

I couldn't agree more with your assessment of Kerry's judgment, and I enjoy your blog.

Posted by: Eric Scheie | 03/27/2004 - 03:48 PM
 
 
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