Kerry Redefines The Word "Moderate"

The whole theme of the Democratic National Convention was to show the party's "moderate" side in order to convince swing voters of Kerry's readiness for the office of the Presidency. But the overall theme of the convention, culminating in an insult-riddled acceptance speech from Kerry, was again the common Bush-bashing message that conservatives have grown so used to these past few years.

Lets catalogue the veiled and not-so-veiled slaps at President Bush and his administration:

"I will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war. I will have a Vice President who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a Secretary of Defense who will listen to the best advice of our military leaders. And I will appoint an Attorney General who actually upholds the Constitution of the United States." [Slap, slap, slap... Very positive message already, don't you think?]

"Remember the hours after September 11th, when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran up the stairs and risked their lives, so that others might live. When rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon. When the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol. When flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us. " [How shameful for Kerry to exploit 9/11 for political purposes!]

"Saying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn't make it so. Saying we can fight a war on the cheap doesn't make it so. And proclaiming mission accomplished certainly doesn't make it so." [Never mind the fact that Kerry was saying the same thing about Iraq at least three years before President Bush took office.]

"As President, I will ask hard questions and demand hard evidence. I will immediately reform the intelligence system - so policy is guided by facts, and facts are never distorted by politics. And as President, I will bring back this nation's time-honored tradition: the United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to." [After being one of those principally responsible for tearing the intelligence system down in the first place, I wonder how well he'll do at rebuilding it. As for the time-honored tradition of going to war "because we have to" as opposed to going to war "because we want to," perhaps he should have a chat with Bill Clinton.]

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