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Journal bmetzler's Journal: John Kerry's Waffles 12

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If you don't like the Democratic nominee's views, just wait a week.

Last week, President Bush offered a wry critique of his Democratic challengers. "They're for tax cuts and against them. They're for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They're for the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. They're in favor of liberating Iraq, and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts." Now that John Kerry is the presumptive Democratic nominee, Republicans are sure to focus the spotlight on his history of flip-flops. Kerry did vote for the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq, even though he constantly trashes the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq. He voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which limited marriage to a man and a woman, but he now says marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. (Although he also points out that he once attended a gay wedding.) And those are just the better-known issues on which Kerry has "evolved."

The MSN Slate article also has a table outlining many of John Kerry's waffling on his important issues.

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  • # Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.
    # Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
    # Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
    # Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
    # Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.
    # Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
    # Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
    # Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Pale
    • Should we tell him that google doesn't index slashdot journals [google.com], and that therefore his attempt at googlebombing is a miserable failure [google.com]?

      Whoops, I mean...d'oh!

      Well, I guess their "efforts" are not a complete waste...I'm getting a good laugh out of it, at least!

    • Bush supported mandatory caps on carbon dioxide, and now he doesn't.

      Bush opposed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, now he supports it.

      Bush said it is impossible to distinguish between Al Quaeda and Saddam, now he says Saddam had no role in Al Quaeda plots.

      Heh, this is fun.

  • Kerry lacks any sort of moral compass which without makes him a poor leader of any sort, it simpley allows him to be tossed on the political sea of storms. Beyond that, those things which should provide him direction, such as his faith, do nothing to buttress his crumbling positions.

    In Timothy I (from memory) we have the requirements for an elder, one being "not a new convert." Why is that? Because a new convert does not know his faith, has not been tried by his faith, and would not exercise always in a
    • If you want someone with strong moral foundations, you're better off with an aetheist scientist. Christians are the last people to go to for "morals". Unless, of course, you define morals a little differently than I do. Religious nutters are certainly in riot... in all senses of the word.
      • I know, Kerry is such a lousey moral leader as a self declared Catholic and all. I can see your point.

        Granted I call myself a atheistic scientist, so I think I would make a great leader. I also declare I am a tooth fairy too, I just don't give money for teeth and I do not take teeth from under kids pillows. Oh yeah, I am also supreme leader of the universe too, cause I decided that title fit well.

        Just because someone claims they are a Christian does not make them one.

        Yes, I would have to say that I de
        • It would seem that the differece is that some people want to decide morals for them selves... where as others do not trust humans to come up with rules that are "good enough."

          jason
          • Or paraphrased, some people know how to act properly, and some people need to be told explicitly and then coerced with the threat of eternal torment.

            Isn't this fun? ;)
    • Hey... Interesting. I am also in Judges. About Ch 9, which means Midian was only a few chapters (but several weeks) ago.

      Thanks for the good post. I do trust a compass even if it is a compas that you know points 15 degrees off from north. At least you know where it points.

      A spinning compass is of no use.

      jason
    • Oops, brain fart.

      Last night I realized I mean Gideon, not Midian. It was actually the Midianites that Gideon smacked around. My bad.
  • You're the first person to de-friend me, bmetzler, so I came over to your JE to try to figure out why. No mystery there. Perhaps you are adopting the same policy as the White House when it comes to dissent--ignore it, shut it out, and by gosh, don't tell the President.

    I have had a lot of positions I have changed over the years. I used to be a Dallas Cowboy fan (pre-Jones). I used to drink and drive, I used to have anonymous sex with groupies in exchange for backstage passes, I used to lie, I used to li

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