John Kerry made a bad joke about President Bush. Characteristically, one of his sentences was so long and the syntax so hard to follow, that it was easily manipulated by his opponents. He embarrassed himself.
The Republicans responded. They embarrassed themselves. They embarrassed us all.
Kerry finally lost his temper. He called them “hacks” and even challenged John McCain. And for once, he was clear, he was simple, he was biting, and he was precise when he said the following, the words I’ve been searching for all these past six years:
“The Republicans want to debate a straw man because they’re afraid to debate a real man.”
We should never have stood for it. But now we’re learning.
Today’s Musical Insight (“Out of this long political darkness, a brighter day will come” Edition):
“They come, they come to build a wall between us; we know they won’t win.”
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