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Kerry’s claimed decisiveness:
“Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear, ‘America is under attack,’ I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to . . . and I would have attended to it,”
...is at odds with his famed policy towards our allies, as illustrated by this great Ramirez cartoon.
See this Jessica’s Well post for what really happened:
“KERRY: I was in the Capitol. We’d just had a meeting—we’d just come into a leadership meeting in Tom Daschle’s office, looking out at the Capitol. And as I came in, Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon. And then word came from the White House, they were evacuating, and we were to evacuate, and so we immediately began the evacuation.”
That’s right—Kerry admits that at the actual time, he couldn’t even think, and he didn’t even have the responsibilities of the President of the United States.
As Roger L. Simon observes, Kerry’s behavior is much like that of the stock comedy character of the commedia dell ‘arte, the braggart soldier.
Perhaps later in the campaign Kerry can tell us what he would have said if he were the first person to set foot on the moon.
