Posted by
RightTeacher on Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:49:45 PM
No, I am not going to talk about the Swiftboaters--again.
John Kerry made a return appearance on ABC's This Week. Listening to him was like listening to nails on a chalkboard. I suspect George Stephanopolus' appraisal would be similar--even though George many years ago considered working for his campaign before selecting Clinton. He would never stop talking even with George trying to move on and even interrupted Lindsey Graham several times. Not that he had several things to say, he just kept saying the same thing several times. Talking points become more true every time you say them.
George asked J.F. Kerry one question that needs to be asked of every Obama supporter for as long as Obama claims to be working for bipartisanism. He asked what one thing Obama had done that demonstrated his bipartisanism. McCain has McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, and Obama has . . . what? Kerry talked about Obama's work with Senate ethics reform.
Leaving out the faults of the current ethics rules, realize what Kerry is saying about his party. Essentially, if you are for ethics, you must be a Republican. If you are against ethics, you are a Democrat. If you are a Democrat working on ethics reform, you must be a bipartisan.
But he is a gift that keeps on giving. He blurted out at one point that businesses were overburdened with having to pay for health insurance for their employees. Now I haven't yet presented by treatise on health insurance--a misnomer if there ever was one (perhaps I can present it the last week of June when I am on vacation). But Kerry then talked about the incentives that the government provides for businesses to move their activities overseas. Now, those incentives are merely deferments so that the income tax does not have to be paid until the money is brought back into the US. His solution (and Obama's) is to get rid of those deferments. He seems to understand on some subliminal level that business is overburdened by "health insurance" premiums and is anxious to reduce or defer the taxes that they pay. His little mind does not let him take the next logical level that if we want business to be healthy and happy, we have to reduce taxes on business. That will improve the economy and keep businesses and jobs in this country.