Monday, May 08, 2006
The use and abuse of the founding fathers
One can cite some American "founding father" for almost any proposition, including particularly the idea that dissent is good. They were, after all, revolutionaries. The pantheon of useful founding father quotations, however, was apparently not quite vast enough for John Kerry, who imagined a new Jefferson line in the defense of choices Kerry made 35 years ago. And he used it again at Grinnell College five days after righty bloggers were mocking him for it.
That's smart. What genius thought to neutralize the Swift Boat Veterans -- and that is what these speeches from Kerry about the legitimacy of "dissent" are all about -- with made up quotations?
With a staff that good, it's going to be another long presidential campaign for John and Theresa.
CWCID: Jeff Goldstein.
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John B. Chilton, at
Tue May 09, 12:01:00 AM:
Time for Kerry to roll out the Dan-Rather-CBS defense "fake but true"?
