Wow Kerry took the Florida primary!

[kandrathe]

The democrats have a history of choosing this type of candidate, and then scrambling to cover for the candidates obvious short comings. I would point to former President Bill Clinton, and the pre-election Gennifer Flowers allegations -- quickly dismissed as an underhanded attack by Republicans. By the time I saw six allegations of sexual harrassment against Clinton prior to the election, I was pretty certain that the man at least had a character flaw in regards to his predation of women. Clinton was smarter than say, Gary Hart in that he kept his zipper closed for the election. Personally, I'd say that if a man wants to carry on serial sexual relationships while married that is his own business, but it does reflect poorly on a man's ability to remain true to his promises. But, let's say that Bill and Hillary have an arrangement (a sham to their mutual political benefit), but that also smacks of falsity in pretending to have a blissful coexistence.

Here is what Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of the Syrian Hezbollah wrote:

"The resistance movement [against the U.S. in Iraq] may not be able to remove the U.S. from Iraq within a year, but it will be able to remove Bush, [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [National Security Adviser] Condoleezza Rice, together with their Zionist friends, from the White House," Nasrallah assured his listeners. Nasrallah's scenario requires no deep understanding: Suicide attacks and sabotage operations against the American forces in Iraq will cause American public opinion to turn against the president and not re-elect him, thus bringing about the disappearance of this group of leaders from the White House.

Nasrallah pulls no punches

A conservative columnist (Jay Reding) wrote:

The Democrats have always been more concerned with who someone is rather than what they think - appearances do matter, but Kerry's war service does not, nor should it, insulate him from criticism for years of weakening the US military. Kerry voted against nearly every weapons system that won the wars in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He voted against the first Gulf War, an act that shows a fundamental weakness on defense issues. His record belies his supposed strength on defense.