Kerry Actually Made Promises, Before He Broke Them (Rosemary, the QOAE)
In keeping with his pattern, Kerry promised to cut the programs he is proposing.
Kerry said that, if he is elected president, he will not let government programs outside of security and education grow beyond the rate of inflation, even if it means cutting money from some of his own campaign promises and existing government programs.
It's a very smart way to campaign. He's already telling us that he will promise anything and he may or may not deliver on them.
Here's another one:
"President Bush has no real economic plan for long-term prosperity and higher standards of living. I do, and at its heart is a strategy to create 10 million new jobs in the first term of a Kerry administration," the Massachusetts senator said.
It is a great strategy to promise to create "two million" more jobs than we actually need. Damn, he's good. Even the sainted Clinton couldn't employ every single person that needed a job with two million extra jobs just in case.
How will he do it? Eh, who cares? He's not gonna do it and he already has his out clause.
NEWS FLASH
Kerry is a politician and lies every chance he gets. He says what america wants to hear and then changes as does popular demand. KERRY MARKED LIAR.
Kerry has no chance. And yes kerry was a waterboy in vietnam. Who cares. Kerry is an idiot and looks to much like Jay Leno to be predident.
John F. Kennedy for President! Hey, he's better than any other Democrat. Even now.
If Bush was a Democrat, but with the exact same policies he has now, what would you be saying, Bill? What if Al Gore was elected in 2000 and then attacked Afghanistan and Iraq? Who would you be rooting for now? A Republican?
Disregard that last comment: I thought you said "John F. Kerry" and I'm not in the mood to hear any Kerry lovin' today. My point still stands, though, to the Anybody But Bush crowd out there. It just gets under my skin. Democrats have become like a virus.
Rosemary
I want to compliment you on your commentary "keepin an eye on John F Kerry" as I call it. You are allowing me to ignore his speeches pretty much for the time being and still keep up on his most recent announcements from the pulpit. I'll have to start actually listening to him speak, I suppose, eventually as the election draws nearer but for now I'm relying on you to keep me abreast. You're a God-send and helping keep my blood pressure under control. Thaaaaannnkks
Thank you, Jane.
I'll do my best!
My mute button is on auto-Kerry, Yap! Click! The sound of silence.
I'll vote against him then vote for him. I'm sure he would like that.
“He's already telling us that he will promise anything and he may or may not deliver on them.”
Actually Rosemary, he’s telling us exactly what he’s promising and what may have to be sacrificed for fiscal probity (something “conservatives” used to appreciate). But you already knew that.
“It is a great strategy to promise to create "two million" more jobs than we actually need.”
Um, that’s over a four-year term starting this January, so we can probably use those jobs due to growth in the workforce. But you knew that too, didn’t you Rosemary ;-)?
Ah, but if he promises, then doesn't deliver, then it isn't a promise!
I can do that too: "I'm going to have sex with Salma Hayek tonight. Unless she turns me down, in which case I won't."
Or "Rosemary, I'm going to give you a million dollars. Unless I don't have the money, then I won't."
Or, better yet "I, Casey, will end the war in Iraq tomorrow. Unless I can't; then never mind."
Hey, I like doing this. I'm practically Superman!
Casey,
You are Superman! You just didn't realize it. But we could tell.
Yours,
Wince
shep,
So he's saying he's going to make the hard choices. Good. Why not make them now? That way we can evaluate what he actually plans to do, not policy daydreams to be revised later.
I mean, really, in every estimate I've ever seen prepared in the real world at least the numbers added up, even if the timelines and costs were a fantasy. Can't Kerry at least do the math? Not that Bush is much better. The only thing that Kennedy said at Brookings that was worth the air he used to speak it (and air is free!) was calling Bush on the carpet for that horrible $400 billion prescription drug plan estimate.
The grand tradition of dramatically underestimating social program costs is one I'd happily leave behind.
Yours,
Wince
Wince, that last post was somewhat god-like itself. Well done!
Man, why am I suddenly flashing on "Chip & Dale," all of a sudden? Heh...
150, 000 x 12 x 4 = what?