Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Bush sounds more like the original JFK

Tony Blankley writes that as John Kerry drifts from one position to the next, sounding adamant no matter which position he currently espouses, President Bush sounds like Churchill and John Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe." For John Kennedy: "Only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility --- I welcome it."

It is ironic that in this time and in this place, the direct descendent of those words, and the virile passions they convey, can be found coming from the mouth and heart not of the Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, but of his opponent, the Texas Republican George W. Bush.

Yesterday, addressing the den of jackals, thieves, petty dictators and other international flotsam --- which goes by the name of the United Nations General Assembly --- President Bush echoed the brave, necessary words of the once Prince of Camelot.
My guess is that Americans will not choose an uncertain and indecisive leader in a time of national danger such as this.