Monday, July 12, 2004
While America finds itself in a global war against fanatics who are actively seeking nuclear weapons for attacks on American cities, and who in the meantime saw off peoples' heads with carving knives, let's check in on what the leading candidates are up to:
From the Drudge Report, via James Taranto, John Kerry says he doesn't have time to stay informed about terrorist threats against America:
Just hours before attending an all-star celebrity fundraising concert in New York, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry revealed how he has been too busy for a real-time national security briefing.
"I just haven't had time," Kerry explained in an interview.
Kerry made the startling comments on CNN's LARRY KING LIVE Thursday night.
KING: News of the day, Tom Ridge warned today about al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States. Didn't increase the -- you see any politics in this? What's your reaction?
KERRY: Well, I haven't been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me. I just haven't had time.
As Taranto points out, later that night Kerry and Edwards found the time to attend a "celebration of real American values", where Whoopi Goldberg "delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush":
Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia, and boasted that she'd refused to let Team Kerry clear her material.
"I Xeroxed my behind and I folded it up in an envelope and I sent it back with a big kiss mark on because we're Democrats--we're not afraid to laugh," she said. . . .
Kerry could be seen laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg's tirade --and neither he nor Edwards voiced a single objection to its tone when they spoke to the crowd.
They hailed the fund-raiser as a great event.
