April 19, 2004

Kerry's House of Ketchup #8

Hey boys and girls, it's time for another adventure onto the campaign trail of a man who may or may not have committed war crimes in Vietnam. It's time for Kerry's House of Ketchup. And now we have the "voice" of the Senator himself gracing this fine periodical. There's more clever "ads" at the John F. Kerry Media Relations Center.

• Stephen Green is confused about Kerry's Meet the Press interview.
• The ketchup man made the cover of a French magazine. They love him over there. Maybe he should run for president there?
• Kerry wants to turn a lot of authority for reconstructing Iraq's polity over to the U.N. Kofi Annan has declined. As Glenn Reynolds points out, the U.N. can't even get their act together in "that multilateral non-paradise, Kosovo." That puts a wrench in the works.
• ScrappleFace reports on another Osama bin Laden tape offering a conditional truce. He also reports on Kerry mixing up his twin religions of Catholicism and modern liberalism.
• Kerry-bashing webloggers have commenced a "waffle" Google-bombing campaign (shock and awe blogosphere-style). Things could get ugly if Kerry were elected. News of the prank has even made the USA Today.
• Another anti-Kerry prank was twisting a Kerry campaign website's webpage creation tool into something almost post-modern. If you don't like that, make your own Kerry sign. Jeff Goldstein did.
• From the "I Can't Make this Up" File is John Kerry talking to some children.
• Changing to a more serious tone, four months before the Sept. 11 attacks, Senator Kerry received information that a terrorist attack could be launched Boston's Logan Airport due to poor security. Kerry's belated response was less than stellar.
• It seems the American public doesn't know much about John Kerry. (Did you know he fought in Vietnam?) That might be his explanation of why he's tied (or nearly tied) with President Bush in the polls. Maybe the real explanation is the more they find out about him, the more they don't like him. His new short-term strategy is introducing himself to the voters. Putting out a Deaniac-style ad declaring that Halliburton invaded Iraq won't help. For more there's Stephen Green.
• Is John Kerry afraid of black people?
• Pejman Yousefzadeh smacks Kerry on the definition of patriotism. The Iraq War Reader, not sympathetic to President Bush, thinks Kerry needs to lay out a positive agenda on what he would do to fix the Iraq situation.

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