Bittersweet Symphony
2004-08-02 at 11:01 a.m.
Good enough for me.
"I've been involved in this for a long time, longer than George Bush," he said. "I've spent 20 years negotiating, working, fighting for different kinds of treaties and different relationships around the world. I know that as president there's huge leverage that will be available to me, enormous cards to play, and I'm not going to play them in public. I'm not going to play them before I'm president."And check this out: Reminded that he sounded like Richard M. Nixon, who campaigned in 1968 by saying he had a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam, Kerry responded: "I don't care what it sounds like. The fact is that I'm not going to negotiate in public today without the presidency, without the power."
I don't care what it sounds like. Might be a little put-offish, but I like the candor. And the sense-making. Better than calling people pretty boys as you sit responsible for continued deaths. Where's the gravity of the situation?
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